Radio X says Pulp’s 2025 reunion tour has been turned into Pulp: What Do You Do For An Encore?, with Jarvis Cocker narrating the feature documentary. The film gets a one-night-only preview in UK and Irish cinemas on 18th September before an exclusive release on MUBI later in the autumn.
Garth Jennings directs, and Barney Pilling edits, while the runtime is built from live-show footage, four decades of previously unseen archive and 20 songs across Pulp’s career. That makes the preview less like a routine rollout and more like a short cinema event built to test demand before the streaming window opens.
Jarvis Cocker and 20 songs
Jarvis Cocker’s narration gives the documentary a single voice instead of a standard talking-head package, and the 20-song selection turns the film into a catalogue exercise as much as a tour recap. For viewers, that means the preview should play as a concentrated run through the band’s material rather than a loose behind-the-scenes scrapbook.
Garth Jennings uses the reunion tour as the spine, but the archive stretches back four decades, which moves the story beyond one live comeback. The film charts Pulp’s path from Sheffield outsiders to one of Britain’s most distinctive musical voices, so the project is set up as both a concert record and a career summary.
UK and Irish preview
The 18th September cinema slot is the key business choice here. A one-night-only run gives the film an event status in UK and Irish cinemas while keeping the wider release back for MUBI later in the autumn.
That two-step release also explains the tension inside the project: it is sold as a reunion-tour documentary, yet it is framed just as strongly as a longer career statement. The preview should satisfy the immediate audience in cinemas, while the later MUBI release will carry the title into a broader home-viewing cycle without diluting the first-night draw.
Sheffield to MUBI
18th September 2026 is the dated nationwide release attached to Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?, giving the rollout a fixed anchor after the cinema preview. For anyone deciding whether to wait, the practical choice is simple: see it on the one-night cinema run if the event format matters, or hold for MUBI later in the autumn if convenience wins out.
