In advance of the screening of ‘Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets’ and a live satellite Q&A with Jarvis Cocker at the IFI this Saturday, former Pulp keyboardist Candida Doyle joined Tom to discuss her time with the band.

However, Doyle categorically said “no” to the possibility of a Pulp reunion album.

“I think we’ve probably done our best stuff and it would just be embarrassing if we get together...we couldn’t be any better than we were,” she said.

The new documentary, made by New Zealander Florian Habicht, was initially difficult for Doyle to watch.

“It was uncomfortable at first to watch...I speak about very personal stuff, probably for the first time,” she explained.

When asked about how she came to be a member of Pulp, Doyle explained that her brother was already a member at the time. The original keyboardist left the band and she happened to be in the right place at the right time. “It was as simple as that,” she said.

Fame sat uneasily with Doyle at the beginning.

“Perhaps Jarvis and Russel wanted to be famous but I didn’t want to go on Top of the Pops or fly to America or anything like that,” she said.

However, the seeds of success changed things.

“When we signed to Island records and we started to get a taste of fame and began to get paid for it, it started to be a different kettle of fish”.

Tom also spoke, earlier in the week, with the director of the Pulp documentary, Florian Habicht.

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‘Pulp: A film about life, death and supermarkets’ screens at the IFI tomorrow, June 7th. This is followed by a live satellite Q&A with Jarvis Cocker. See www.ifi.ie for details.