Pulp launch their own tea as Island era singles hit streaming services
nme.comPulp have launched their own brand of teabags, and announced that singles from their Island era will be arriving on streaming services.The band teased both new updates on social media – the first of which was their own signature brand of tea.Made in collaboration with Dragonfly Tea, frontman Jarvis Cocker took to Instagram last week to unveil the band’s own blend of Black Tea, which comes equipped with snippets of their lyrics.“Monday mornings can be hard.
This could help: Pulp Monday Morning Tea,” Cocker wrote on the update, sharing an image of both the box of tea and an accompanying tea caddy. “In collaboration with @dragonflyteauk … we have come up with the perfect Black Tea to get you up & running on Monday, or any other day of the week.”He continued: “The small white object to the left of the picture is a mini tea-caddy!
So you can take sachets of tea with you to have whenever wherever. [And] if you are at a loose end, each tea-bag has a line from a Pulp song lyric printed on the tag to help you plan your day … Tea’s up.”A post shared by @jarvisbransoncockerThe second image in the post showed an example of the lyrically inspired tabs on the end of each tea bag, with the one posted reading “Dance, and drink, and screw because there’s nothing else to do” — a line from their hit 1995 single ‘Common People’.This isn’t the first time that members of Pulp have shared their own signature blend of tea.
Back in 2020, the Britpop frontman also joined forces with the Dragonfly brand to share his mix of peppermint tea – named ‘Peppermint Jungle’ – which he released under the moniker ‘JARV IS’.
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