Primal Scream.

They bring in people cause it's what is best for the songs not the egos. Like Lou Reed and Velvet Underground getting Nico to sing songs, or Maureen Tucker...

Brillant brillant brillant band.

xtrmntr is complete punk rock. burns my head when i listen to it.

Pah. The only message I get from the scream's total recorded output is this:

"We own a cooler record collection than you"

fuck them.

Bobby G is so very very good looking, Norman!

Still doesn't stop me from loving Screamadelica, though.

Those are valid points about the scream, norman, but still, the reference points actually work. Bob's a magpie, for sure. Everyone's a prostitute, etc..etc...

But he samples rock and roll of the 20th century. I think that is the ethnos that was brought out after screamadelica. You can say...Ummm....but it's just all done before. But it's dunno..very tired and moaning after drunken argument in club but 'a melting point/pot' *posh voice* of sampling.

When I was younger, Primal Scream was the first band that I had gotten into, loved, obsessed, na'er do wrong....

But the reference points, just broadened the musical knowledge and teh desire to hear more.

I mean, Soup Dragons, case in point, they do the same thing but they get it wrong.

Me: Uuuuurrrghhhh....shudder uuuunnggghhhh....

Cor, Kate.....

this< /a> is what I call good-looking. However, this certainly isn't.

What d'you think? :)

Doompatrol? Any opinions to offer? Is bbby a htty?

x0x0

I've always thought that bobby looked really cool. Dodgy around give up but don't give out...but the jesus and mary chain bobby, yes, screamadelic bobby, stonestarchild....

I'm sorry Norman, can't budge. Must admit, I love primal scream, the only band that I will buy cd singles for...

ps. getting some peter hammill tonight. tell you what i think about a week from now...

http://www.malcolm-mcdowell.com/Gallery/Wallpaper/wp10.jpg

And paul, it's not that it's been "done before". I don't actually care if it's been done before. It's that they, or more precisely BBBY, are always banging on in the musick press abt how they're a reflection of their ultra-cool influences, but they never get close

xoxo

By the way, Spirit...didnt like.....arrgghh.....

the drum and bass covers of garage rock classics like 96 tears...how can you go wrong?

this is the link to BBBY I screwed up.

Paul - which spirit album did y'get???

xoxo

Not rock and roll nonsense. They were the first band to make me BELIEVE in rock and roll! Defined rock and roll for me and loads of other people.........

primalscream/stoneroses/happymondays

They made it sexy again!

They made it sexy again!

Good lord, I'm agreeing with Doompatrol. Somebody call the doctor. Yes, they made it sexy again. But this is Bobby G we are talking about, he could make being a LIBRARIAN sexy again.

It's called BEAUTY!!!!! Either you have it or you don't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i havent lived with it enough to give an honest opinion...will tell you later on.

(I'm talking about spirit)..

primal scream = rock and roll.

it's the manifesto.........

so many highlights, that I can never put them in a group other than CLASSIC. The closest would have been Richard Ashcroft up to A Northern Soul. But the other two, would have to be, Super Furry Animals and Spiritualized as the two other bands that I can believe in...

But DG (the man who hated doompatrol)...it's not 1969 for the Scream. It's the present. It's the future. It's the past. It's everything.

One listen to the scream theme Screamadelica will make anyone dance.

It's not silly it's the scream spirit, man o man.

Plus he could take Spidey. Look at his action with the mic stand (classic iggy by the way)...

anyways, what about andrew innes, electronic music for the cinema. He's the man with the ideas!

Bobby/Ned slash fiction???

One of the funniest things I've ever heard was a story about when Bobby decided to introduce the much-vaunted 'dance element' to their records. Apparently it caused all sorts of soul-searching in the band, culminating in one member bursting into tears and shouting about 'joining forces with everything we've ever fought against'.

One question: you know when people call them 'the scream'? Is that a joke?

SOunds like George Michael meets Suicide circa 1990.

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Yeah, that's why it's a classic. :)

After the gig I wandered backstage looking for the Scream's dressing room. I found it easily, and then I listened at the door and heard their gorgeous Scottish accents inside. I was listening for about ten minutes before I felt a tap on my shoulder.

It was their Bass Player, Mani. He asked me if I'd like to be able to hear them more clearly. I nodded my head but instead of opening the door for me he pushed me against the wall opposite.

He moved his hands all over my body still fully clothed. Our breathing started getting heavier. Then he lifted up my T-shirt and my bra and started stroking my breasts. He pressed his hands down harder and my breathing became faster. He put his head in front of my breasts and started licking the tips. They began to harden.

Just them the dressing room door opened and Bobby Gillespie walked out and stopped and stared at what he saw. "Wouldn't you rather do that inside, Mani?" He asked Mani. Mani took my hand and led me inside the dressing room. Bobby followed behind.

Inside the dressing room were the other members: Duffy, Throb and Innes. They all looked at me holding Mani's hand. I noticed I still had my T-shirt and bra lifted up and they all could see my breasts.

My nipples were softening now. They all looked as though they wanted me badly. Mani asked me to lie on a double mattress on the floor. I took all my clothes off first. My underwear seemed to disappear very quickly. It was hard to tell where it went as they were all gathered around it. There was a scuffle for my underwear then they moved nearer me and my underwear had gone. I couldn't tell which one of the cheeky Scotsmen had my underwear. I was lying on my back on the mattress. I wondered who would make the first move. Bobby did.

He spoke to me paying me compliments on my body. He knew I enjoyed hearing his voice. He looked deep into my eyes and then planted a small kiss on my lips. He moved away as if he had enough already...then he came back again. He put one of his big hands on my breasts.

He started moving the hand on my breast in a circular motion. I smiled at him. He smiled back at me... but it wasn't just a normal smile... it was a warm sexy smile. His eyes looked so beautiful when he smiled. I couldn't take my eyes off his beautiful face. The other members were becoming impatient. Innes pushed Bobby out of the way. I made a suggestion of something that would please me. Innes pushed Bobby onto the floor and started undressing him. He rubbed his hands all over Bobby's nakedness. He took Bobby's cock in his big hands and started stroking it gently. Then he put it into his mouth and sucked it. It was really turning Bobby on. While I was watching standing up now, I suddenly felt a hand on my back. The hand went and then I felt a hard cock entering me from behind. I didn't know who's it was...

Funny though.

_sorry, I don’t want to get into it._

(I was agreeing with you)

I'm slightly curious to see how someone who seems incapable of self-criticism responds to this situation. It's bad for business and the public persona of himself he may think he has carefully cultivated for decades is publicly unravelling. It's interesting is this duality of someone retweeting novara media tweets that are attacking austerity and then seemingly not gaf about a band member who is having what proved to be a fatal mental health crisis whilst struggling on benefits.

Not a correction worth arguing about but ime speed was way more available in the 80s than coke, which got mainstreamed in the early to mid 90s

replies to their latest instagram post aren't pretty...

screenshots, for those without zuck accounts?

This was in response to the announcement of a new archival compilation, just pages and pages of this sort of thing:

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Vermin
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Bobby the champagne socialist, hope all that money makes you happy mate
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Louie Duffy’s statement was a sickening read, it’s not the first story either, more people need to read this statement and realise what a hypercritical fake nasty piece of work you are Bobby

http://www.dafts.co.uk/louieduffystatement.pdf
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Are you intending to release a statement on the appalling way Martin Duffy was treated by you? Absolute Tory behaviour, zero respect for Gillespie and Innes now.
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I see that, similar to Ian Brown’s rants during lockdown, people are far too happy to continue to blindly worship than be critical of their heroes abhorrent behaviour.
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Socialist in the streets, Capitalist in the balance sheets 😑
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Read Louie Duffy’s statement last night, pretty shocked tbh. Eagerly awaiting an acknowledgment/response from Gillespie & Innes.
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Who's the Tory in disguise?
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I’ve just read Louie’s statement and it’s heartbreaking. Shame on you both.
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Genuinely thought these guys were decent, all an act in reality.

Suppose it’s Free to talk about rights and looking after others yet different actually doing it when it’s coming out of your own pocket…..

Way more than a session musician
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How do you sleep ??
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Just read Louie Duffy’s witness statement for his father. You cretins. You should be ashamed. Tory behaviour.
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Some sons are writing heart-wrenching accounts of how their loyal dad was in debt and in despair and kicked out at their lowest, some other sons are in fancy fashion mags thanks to mum & dad? But socialism eh Bobby?
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Can't believe what I've been reading about the way Duffy was treated by the rest of the band. My admiration for you has just vanished.....
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Oh yeah and the post of you having had your second COVID jab. Absolute fake and enemy of the masses despite all your safe, shallow posturing
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Bobby the rat
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Play shitty games win shitty prizes.
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Getting thrown out of Primal Scream for boozing is like being thrown out of The Wurzels for eating turnips !!

— Gino Tortellino (@A1010101010Z) June 8, 2023

Oh yeah and the post of you having had your second COVID jab. Absolute fake and enemy of the masses despite all your safe, shallow posturing

This one I'm trying to unpack a little more.

Ciarán Bourke was a founding member of The Dubliners who suffered an aneurysm in 1974. It left him with left side paralysis & unable to perform. The band continued to share earnings and pay him as a band member until his death in 1988.

— Phonic Underground (@fi_fry) June 8, 2023

there were bands that haven't been infected by the Thatcherism doctrine

(xxp) Lemmy used to dine out on the fact that he got thrown out of Hawkwind for taking too many drugs.

(If you want to talk about real speed freaks and not pretend ones)

what about real tenement kids as well? like Jim Kerr, lol

I read somewhere that founding Roxy bassist Graham Simpson received a salary from the band for the rest of his life (a mental health crisis led to him leaving after the first LP). I think there was a profile in the Wire? Anyway it struck me as very cool if true.

He was the only bassist to be a full member of the band, and would have continued to earn royalties on that first record. Of course he and Ferry were the founding and only two members for awhile, keeping him on salary would have been a nice gesture (although I thought he was said to have disappeared for decades, which isn't conducive to picking up cheques).

re: travis...

Travis is a pseudonym. Which makes it even more interesting that she chose to mention Bobby Gillespie by name. pic.twitter.com/yX0xUHHFfL

— Frankosonic (@frankosonic) June 8, 2023

? thought it referred to the milquetoast popular band - Fran Healey, “Why Does it Always Rain on Me?” etc. Hence the “grin collectively”.

odd that Miki says she never liked clubs much as she was a bit of a raver. i guess she means the kind of clubs BG attends.

Could mean lots of things, I guess? "I went to clubs when my band was my main thing and it seemed the thing to do", "I used to get into clubs while I was recognised but in retrospect the queue jumping felt uncomfortable" etc, etc.

Louie isn't on Twitter but has been reading the messages of support & has asked me to post on his behalf. He sends a big thanks for the warm wishes and says it's been overwhelming. A difficult week for the #MartinDuffy family but ❤️ from us all pic.twitter.com/wdVY8jGaDI

— Steve Duffy (@SteveDuffy99) June 8, 2023

That's good to hear.

I confess to being slightly concerned about how all this will affect the continued presence of Boaby (as opposed to Bobby) Gillespie on ILX.

maybe he'll chime in on the "have you been cancelled" thread

Ah!

A period of sober reflection and a commitment to do better next time? Followed by a speed-fuelled arson spree in Primrose Hill for the fans.

Well I guess I just found out that I knew Martin Duffy's brother when I lived in Cardiff, I had no idea who his brother was.

oh hell yes

Mo Saleh from Gaza presents the Aida Celtic shirt to the giant of journalism @azaizamotaz9. Motaz fearlessly and relentlessly brought the war on Gaza to millions of people around the world and inspired others to do similar. pic.twitter.com/6CpyJiB9e7

— Aida Celtic (@aida_celtic) January 28, 2024