Cocker vows to bring back Pulp

Pulp star Jarvic Cocker has assured impatient fans the band are merely "hibernating" and will return, silencing reports they had split for good.

The charismatic Common People singer's outfit were a major force in the mid- 90s alongside rival British bands Oasis and Blur, but following poor sales of their 2001 album We Love Life, Pulp dropped out of the music industry.