Cocker was speaking at the premiere of The Big Melt, a new documentary film on Sheffield's steel industry that he wrote the soundtrack for. For the performance at the city's Crucible Theatre, he enlisted his Pulp bandmates Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Nick Banks and Richard Hawley to perform tracks from the film including a string version of The Human League's 'Being Boiled', A Guy Called Gerald's 'Voodoo Ray' and Pulp's 'This Is Hardcore'. The Big Melt was directed by Martin Wallace, a long-term collaborator of Cocker's, and tells the story of the Sheffield steel industry using footage from the BFI National Archive.