Jarvis Cocker has denied his old band Pulp are reforming to play the Glastonbury Festival next year.

Cocker had been quoted by the People newspaper saying the band would be playing the 40th anniversary of the festival. But he told the Guardian on Wednesday the story just wasn't true.

He told the paper he could "categorically" state "Pulp have no plans to get back together.

"Someone asked me if I fancied playing at the 40th anniversary of Glastonbury, I said, 'Yes,' they twisted that into a 'Pulp reform' story. It's not true."

Pulp went down in Glastonbury history for their 1995 headlining slot, when they were an eleventh hour replacement for the Stone Roses, who had had to pull out of their headline slot after guitarist John Squire broke his collarbone in a cycling accident. The set, which came weeks after the band's breakthrough single 'Common People' made number two in the UK charts, catapulted them into Britpop's first division.

The band went into hiatus in 2002 and Cocker has been concentrating on a solo career, having released two albums so far -- and recently cropping up in puppet form in Wes Anderson's new animated film 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox.'

No clues as to who is playing the festival for 2010, though Robert Plant, Radiohead and the Rolling Stones have all been rumoured.