Pulp will perform 'Something Changed' continuously for 438 days at The O2 in London, beginning immediately after their current tour ends, in what director Garth Jennings has called «the only logical encore» to his celebratory documentary 'What Do You Do For An Encore?'.
The band will rotate through the stripped-back arrangement that closed their two sold-out O2 shows last summer, with each member taking a mandatory 90-minute sleep shift in a purpose-built dormitory beneath the stage. Jennings will film every second of the 438-day run, having already installed 62 cameras in the arena's rafters, corridors and dressing rooms.
«We raided all of the band's houses for archive material, and then we realised the archive was still happening,» Jennings said. «So we just kept the cameras rolling. Jarvis says what people throw away says more about a culture than what they revere, so we are throwing away nothing. Not one frame.»
The O2 has cancelled all other bookings through next spring, converting the upper tiers into a viewing gallery where fans may sit for as long as they can remain awake. A new timetable governs when the band may eat, when Candida Doyle may walk on with her glass of champagne, and when the audience is permitted to applaud.
Jennings confirmed that the film's final scene will be shot only when the band decides the song has finished changing. «They have not decided yet,» he said. «That is the encore.»