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Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 1 June 1991
BOBBY GILLESPIE reckons that his new single, 'Higher Than The Sun', will revolutionise pop in the Nineties in the same way as the Pistols' 'Anarchy ...
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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie (1991)
Interview by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages audio, 1991
Primal Scream's front-man and major fanboy talks about making Screamadelica; his major influences; and music, music music.
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Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 10 March 1990
The former darlings of indie rock may lose some deities with their new house-orientated single 'Loaded', but Primal leader Bobby Gillespie is determined to use ...
Andy Weatherall: Mixed Emotions
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 17 August 1991
In his first ever interview outside Bocca Juniors, ANDY WEATHERALL talks to PUSH about being the most sought-after remixing whiz-kid of the Nineties and his ...
Primal Scream: Vanishing Point (Creation)
Review by Push, Muzik, August 1997
YOU CAN'T overestimate the importance of Primal Scream in the grand scheme of groovy things. ...
Primal Scream, Radiohead, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers et al: Reading Festival, Berkshire — Saturday
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
ON A REMARKABLE autumn's day on which Chelsea go from to two down to three up at Leeds, Everett True gets hospitalised because he's too ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 April 1998
Disco biscuits, gurning, raves, sartorial bonkersness, and, um, Guru Josh! The ACID HOUSE scene brought us many things when it exploded in 1988; it also ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Vox, June 1997
The songTHE SECOND single to be taked from Primal Scream's forthcoming Vanishing Point LP, 'Star' finds Bobby Gillespie drawing on his personal vocabulary of revolutionary ...
Review by Barbara Ellen, The Times, 21 January 2000
SUGGESTING THAT you might like the new Primal Scream album, Exterminator (Creation £14.99) is a bit like saying that you might enjoy having a helicopter ...
The Prodigy, Primal Scream: Glasgow Green, Glasgow
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 31 August 1997
They're like the Sex Pistols. Via Mothercare ...
Primal Scream: Barrowlands, Glasgow
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
GROOVIN' ON UP ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, CDNOW.com, Summer 2000
WHEN PRIMAL SCREAM released Screamadelica in 1991, they forged an indissoluble link between Brit indie-rock and underground dance culture that led directly to the sound ...
Primal Scream: The Hacienda, Manchester
Live Review by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 5 August 1989
LAST TIME I saw Primal Scream they seemed in their death throes, wheezing and spluttering like a fine vintage car struggling to get up a ...
Profile and Interview by Bruce Dessau, Jamming!, September 1985
THE BESTOWING of the term "scene" on a city's musical activity is invariably ill advised. In most areas of large populations (and sadly but inevitably) ...
Primal Scream, Laurent Garnier, Les Rythmes Digitales: Creamfields, Winchester, Hampshire
Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 9 May 1998
TEN YEARS on, and the Acid House Gods are smiley-ing on Winchester like the trippy Teletubbies sun-baby. Dance music's cream — and plenty of cheese, ...
Curve: Town and Country Club; Primal Scream: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 March 1992
THE TRADITIONAL concert is being supplanted in some surprising quarters by the rave — anything from an all-nighter in which the group are just one ...
Primal Scream: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 12 April 1994
Retro-rockers Primal Scream play Brixton ...
Primal Scream: Scream of Consciousness
Interview by Damon Wise, Sounds, 4 August 1990
Primal Scream broke out of the indie mould with 'Loaded', and 'Come Together' should blow the gaffe. Bobby Gillespie talks to Damon Wise about music, ...
Primal Scream: Rock'n'roll — things are what they used to be
Review and Interview by David Cavanagh, The Independent, March 1994
Primal Scream made the best record of 1991. Tomorrow they release the follow-up. David Cavanagh talks to their leader. ...
ZZ Top: Can't Get Out Of Beard
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 19 March 1994
They were poor, humble boogie-woogie Texan boys. And then ZZ TOP discovered beards!, buffalo!, babes! and car seat covers! so they could take over the ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2000
Their sixth album kick starts the Millennium in angry electric jazz/punk/funk style. Significantly, the sleeve thanks Jaki Liebezeit of Can and The Prodigy's Liam Hewlett ...
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 18 December 2000
FOR A MUSIC whore like myself, even a good album can be a little like a one-night stand. There's that lovely moment of courting, checking ...
Primal Scream: Xtrmntor/David Holmes: Bow Down to the Exit Sign/Clinic: Internal Wrangler
Review by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
1997’S FRACTURED, fundamentally bogus Vanishing Point laid the ground for the much more focused Xtrmntor, Bobby Gillespie’s first true manifesto of an album since the ...
Primal Scream: "I Am A Drug Addict"
Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Select, February 2000
Primal Scream are off the smack (but not the speed, coke and E) and on a mission – kill Sporty Spice, kick the shit out ...
Primal Scream: Give Out But Don't Give Up
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, May 1994
YOU DON'T necessarily need the flash and appeal of the New York Dolls or Aerosmith in order to try to be the Rolling Stones and ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 July 1989
It's been two years since we last heard from Bobby Gillespie's indie darlings, but the Galswegian Motormouth is finally back with a new single, 'Ivy ...
Primal Rant: Bobby Gillespie Vents His Spleen
Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 27 April 2000
PRIMAL SCREAM is back. The band that released the pivotal U.K. album of the '90s (Screamadelica) and outraged and amused generations of fans with their ...
Review and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, June 2013
BOBBY & CO run the gamut from cool to cringe on 10th LP. ...
Primal Scream: Exiles on mainstreet
Report and Interview by Helen Mead, i-D, July 1991
Primal Scream — the redemption of rock'n'roll? ...
Locate, subvert, Exterminate: Primal Scream's War on Authority
Report by Jaan Uhelszki, Alternative Press, July 2000
AFTER BEING without an American label for the past three years, Primal Scream return with a vengeance on Exterminator, their first album for Astralwerks. But ...
Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream
Retrospective and Interview by James Brown, Sabotage Times, 23 February 2010
Primal Scream are the last great band of the original Creation Records roster, still rocking on, un-interrupted by break-ups or break-downs. James Brown gets down ...
Primal Scream: Chicks With Everything
Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 28 September 1991
Bacchanalia in the USA! Well, Kentish Town actually, but then the true spirit of rock 'n' roll has always been in the mind, reckons PRIMAL ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Option, May 1992
BOBBY GILLESPIE can't stop being a fan. ...
Primal Scream: Vanishing Point; Charlatans UK: Tellin' Stories
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 10 July 1997
YES, VIRGINIA, there were rock & roll-meets-club culture collisions before the electronica boomlet. Take Primal Scream's 1991 masterpiece Screamadelica, a soulful, druggy expansion of rock's ...
Primal Scream: An Interview with Andrew Innes
Interview by Joe Matera, Total Guitar, 2003
JM: Over the years Primal Scream have continued to re-invent themselves musically with each subsequent release. In it's early incarnation it was a jangly Byrds ...
Primal Scream: Astoria, London
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 14 August 2001
HAVING LONG AGO meandered woozily across the line between inexorably naff and insufferably hip, Primal Scream find themselves approaching another musical crossroads. ...
Primal Scream, The Tractors: Mardis Gras, Liverpool
Live Review by John McCready, New Musical Express, 7 September 1985
THE TRACTORS apologise. Too much to drink. Something about an unprofessional performance. No need! Ooop in St Helens, agricultural machinery is apparently fuelled by lager. ...
Report and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990
With The Stone Roses at Spike Island, the Mondays at Glastonbury and numerous other raves, the summer of 1990 should be one to remember. John ...
Depeche Mode and Primal Scream: The Most Debauched Tour Ever
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, August 1998
Depeche Mode have been touring for almost a year. Drug and alcohol abuse is rife and the group are close to breaking point. The obvious ...
Vitamin Gee: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie Sees The Light
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 30 April 2013
Julian Marszalek talks to the Primal Scream frontman about their new album More Light, the state of rock music in 2013 and living in post-Thatcher ...
The Dawn of Creation (and the middle and the end)
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 December 1999
SO THE party's over. Alan McGee has picked up his ball and moved on, to pastures new — multimedia and, no doubt, highly lucrative. Although ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, November 2006
He's the jive-talking jackdaw who's led Primal Scream through foul weather and, er...foul. Yet, 22 years on, what has Bobby Gillespie learned? "It's not nice ...
Primal Scream: Making Trouble In Riot City
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, August 2006
THE DOOMSAYERS, the rapture-mongers, the manic street-corner preachers, the postmodern theorists...they all completely missed it. With laser-beam paranoia but eyes wide shut, they all claimed ...
Primal Scream: Screamadelica (Creation)
Review by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 21 September 1991
IT'S SAD when people's preconceptions and filo-friendly phobias dictate that a review has to start by defending its very presence but there will be readers ...
Primal Scream: Dancing with Mr. G
Report by Kris Needs, New Musical Express, 16 April 1994
Are you ready for rock-trucker blues — the PRIMAL SCREAM way? Can you handle misplaced underwear, Jacuzzi romps, leather shorts and shenanigans in gay clubs? ...
Andy Weatherall: Pick and Remix
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, November 1994
Andy Weatherall twiddled the knobs that turned a Primals ditty into a House classic, and got himself a job for life. ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 13 May 2013
PRIMAL SCREAM have always been a hard band to really love. Their lurching from jangling dreamers (Sonic Flower Groove) to drug-touched genre benders (Screamadelica) to ...
Primal Scream: Politics of Ecstasy
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, November 1991
Bobby Gillespie met DJ Andy Weatherall on the road to Damascus (or was it Brighton?), and in a flash of blue light discovered a dance ...
Creation Records: Creative Accounting
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, April 1994
Primal Scream, Jesus And Mary Chain, Boo Radleys... Creation has nurtured a family of provocative rock rebels. Alan McGee looks back on the first ten ...
Primal Scream: Give Out But Don't Give Up (Creation CRE 146)
Review by Max Bell, Vox, April 1994
Dancing with Mr G ...
Run DMC, Chemical Brothers, Roni Size et al: Creamfields, Winchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 9 May 1998
It's a Cream come true! We join the madness that's CREAMFIELDS in Winchester with Primal Scream! Cornershop! Roni Size! Run DMC! The full bloody monty! ...
The Bodines/Primal Scream: Young, Loud & Snotty
Interview by Neil Taylor, New Musical Express, 3 August 1985
Times up! NEIL TAYLOR puts his typewriter where his gripes are and pleads on behalf of new, young punk-rock style groups (like PRIMAL SCREAM and ...
SCREAMADULLICA – Primal Scream: Give Out But Don't Give Up (Creation)
Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 26 March 1994
Pre-modernism! Culture pundits reckon art, architecture and literature are all trying to return to classical values. Why should rock be left out? Primal Scream wanna ...
Primal Scream: The Haçienda, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 3 August 1991
KNOCKED OUT LOADED ...
Primal Scream: International Language of Screaming
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 6 September 1997
So what if Primal Scream have cancelled tour dates, lost a band member and played a shaky live performance? They're just minor glitches which cannot ...
Primal Scream: Carry on Screaming
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 6 March 2011
Primal Scream’s classic Screamadelica album is 20 this year. They talk about the agonies, the ecstasy, and doing the school run to PiL ...
Primal Scream: Sonic Flower Groove (Elevation ELV2) ***
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 10 October 1987
PSONIC UNSOUND ...
Alan McGee: The father of Creation
Profile and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 5 July 1997
Hedonism was a way of life for Alan McGee. And who would expect anything less from the man behind Oasis? But the road to pop-tycoon ...
Primal Scream: Ten Minutes In The Mind Of Bobby Gillespie
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, August 1991
Why did you start playing dance music?Better music, better chicks, better drugs. Is rock'n'roll dead? No. There's a lot of great rock'n'roll bands, like Jane's ...
Primal Scream: "We're heavier than Guns n' Roses... We're loose and loaded delinquent rockers."
Interview by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 21 March 1990
Yikes! They're so tough! Practically all of Primal Scream have been in prison! They think they're dead sexy! They don't wash their hair! And they ...
At Home with Bobby Gillespie out of Primal Scream
Interview by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 22 August 1990
★ He's got a shrine to Madonna in his bathroom!★ He's got an old woman's sofa! ★ He's got some Winnie The Pooh mugs! ★ ...
Primal Scream, The Telescopes: Powerhaus, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 26 August 1989
IS THAT my true love I see on stage, or am I watching New Faces? The time has come to add my thrup-tup-ha'pennorth to the ...
Adam Ant: Scala, London/Primal Scream: Olympia, London
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 28 November 2010
HE WAS "a little bastard" according to Adam Ant, affectionately recalling Matthew Ashman. "He'd try to catch peanuts in his mouth and say, 'Don't believe ...
Primal Scream: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 4 April 1992
BOBBY DAZZLER ...
Primal Scream: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 February 1992
Days Of Future Past ...
Primal Scream: No More Yesterday
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 August 1987
Primal Scream look back to look forward. Simon Reynolds retracts a few statements but still argues the toss. ...
Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie: Prophet Or Dead Loss?
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 2 April 1994
Primal Scream’s new LP, Give Out But Don’t Give Up, has split the voters. Some think it’s retro-rockist rubbish, others believe it’s the ultimate good-time ...
Primal Scream: Screamadelica (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Spin, November 1991
WHAT A LONG strange trip it's been for Primal Scream. When the Primals emerged in 1984, their pallid psychopop was draped in the unworldly innocence ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 1991
The story of Primal Scream, whose second hit single entered the charts this week, encapsulates the last 14 years of British rock history. Bobby Gillespie, ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 3 August 2002
SCREAM'S MULTI-WARHEAD DISCO-PUNK LOVE MISSILE OF A SEVENTH ALBUM ...
Primal Scream: An interview with Mani
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, May 2006
LEGENDARY HEDONIST and bassman Gary 'Mani' Mounfield talks about Primal Scream, Roses reunion rumours and the "Mexican stand-off" between his former bandmates... ...
Report and Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1994
PRIMAL SCREAM return to rock roots with Give Out but Don't Give Up. ...
Gary "Mani" Mounfield of Primal Scream
Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 26 July 2006
TWENTY MINUTES before this interview was about to take place, an e-mail from the label said that singer Bobby Gillespie, singer for Primal Scream and ...
Primal Scream: Elysée Montmartre, Paris
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 1 February 1992
"QU'AVEZ VOUS donc envie de falre? On veut ete libre, libre de falre ce qui nous plait, s'en mettre plein la lampe et falre la ...
Primal Scream: Primal Solution
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 5 August 1989
Indie heroes of yore PRIMAL SCREAM are back, straining at the leash with a harder, greasier, rocking new single 'Ivy, Ivy, Ivy'. STUART MACONIE hears ...
Primal Scream and George Clinton: You're My Best Mate You Are
Report by Stuart Maconie, Q, May 1994
FORTY SECOND Street. Outside, Manhattan shivers and cowers beneath a coverlet of snow and prepares for the next much-forecasted blizzard. It's minus 10. Worse, there's ...
You Can't Always Take What You Want: Primal Scream: Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 9 April 1994
BOBBY GILLESPIE yells something victorious and completely unintelligible into the mic, waves a bottle of champers at the ecstatic throng at the front and falls ...
It's Only Choc 'N' Roll: Primal Scream: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 4 April 1992
"ALIEN INVASION, what on earth are we going to do?/Alien Invasion, what on earth are we going to do?" ...
Primal Scream: St. Paul's Arts Centre, Oxford
Live Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 12 July 1986
MORE MOMENTS to cherish: Primal Scream live in Oxford. The tremors and treasures of vulnerability; waking up and realising that life isn't all excitement and ...
Primal Scream: Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall
Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 13 August 2004
THERE'S AN immutable law of rock'n'roll dictating that the longer a rock band stays together, the more its creative energy will dissipate under the parallel ...
Retrospective by Tim Footman, Tangents, December 2002
I FELT A RUSH of nostalgically bad haircuts and Proustian army surplus anoraks while reading Alistair [Flitchett]'s consideration of C86. Nostalgia also for the days ...
Memoir by Tim Tooher, MOJO, April 1994
Last year Primal Scream's pilgrimage to the holiest sources of the Devil's music brought them to Memphis, where they recorded their newest album Give Out ...
"This will not be a party weekend."
Report by Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, October 1997
CAFE DEL MAR ALBUM ON ROTATION, TIM WESTWOOD SILENT, RECORD SHOPS SHUT AND CLUBS PLAYING 'WONDERWALL'. HOW DID DIANA'S DEATH AFFECT THE CLUB WORLD? ...
Primal Scream: Vanishing Point (Creation CRECD178)
Review by Tom Doyle, Q, August 1997
Dark — Primal Scream: the morning after the all-nighter before ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, March 2000
Mr Primal Scream was "remedial" in Geography, but that doesn't matter now he's a reckless rock'n'roll revolutionary on the way to the chemist with an ...
Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Spin, December 1990
THE YEAR 1990 has been one of re-evaluation and subsequent rejuvenation for bands in Britain. Spurred on by the excitement of 1988's acid-house scene and ...
see also Andrew Weatherall
see also Denise Johnson
see also Fifth Of Heaven
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