Kwest To Find Pulp Boy A Success

Zig played guitar, jamming good with Steve and Banksey…

Those of you familiar with the fine new Pulp album, ‘We Love Life’, may have been intrigued by a photograph in the CD booklet, reproduced above. Although there was no clue as to who the young Ziggy pretender contained within the booklet might be, I had my own suspicions. After a recent chat with Jarvis Cocker, my hunch was confirmed as correct when he revealed to me that the band’s guitarist, Mark Webber, is the biggest Bowie fan in the band, and that he used to answer to the name of Zig!

I caught up with Mark yesterday and he admitted that he is in fact the mystery boy in the photograph:

“Yes the picture is indeed of me, taken at the age of twelve and a half in 1983. And it is also true that I answered to the nickname of “Zig”. That came about largely because it was a better name to enter in the high score panel of video games than “Mar”, which didn’t quite work. I should explain that video games would only allow a three letter entry back in the those days.”

Glad to clear that one up for you folx…stay tuned for more on Mark’s Bowie fandom in the next week or so.