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Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker performs during the 59th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 14. The band played Toronto's Budweiser Stage Tuesday, Sept. 16.

“That’s a song that jokes about feelings,” Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker said early in the Britpop group’s fetching performance at Toronto’s summer amphitheatre on Tuesday. “You’re going to get a lot of that this evening.”

Not a word of a lie. They played the synth-driven, tediously titled F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E ., from 1995. “All the stuff they tell you about in the movies,” Cocker sang, “but this isn’t chocolate boxes and roses …”

It’s funny that the “Britpop” label is used to describe both Oasis and Pulp. These two bands are not of the same species, never mind music genre. Oasis are all guitars, lime a

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