Reader:"A few years ago i blagged a ticket to an icelandic music festival, travelling with primal scream and prodigy. on a day off, after taking a coach up a very steep mountain road to a glacier, you threw an embarrassingly girly fit, refused to travel down with the rest of us, and demanded a hellicopter. remember?"
Bobby G:"haha! Right, what happened was it took hours to get up there and the whole time I thought the bus was going to topple over the edge, and i was really cold too. when we got to the top, i just went 'get me fucking out of here'. and this guy put me in a jeep and drove me back at 90mph - that was really exciting, like being in some crazy road movie. as for demanding the hellicopter, yeah i probably did. Hey, that's fair enough. I'm a lead singer in a fucking rock and roll band! Why not?"
I love the way he tries to regain some macho pride by saying "that was really exciting, like being in some crazy road movie". Bobby gillespie: man of the people, indeed.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
the music, on the other hand...
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
interviews with bobby are funny bcz he's a bit of a fule!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 2 March 2003 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 March 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 2 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Strangely enough, I actually agree.
La la la la la laaa, Bobby G, how I love him. Horton Who?
― kate, Sunday, 2 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
''XTRMNTR and Screamadelica are both classic''
don't know abt 'screamadelica but XTRMNTR insults me.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 March 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 2 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 March 2003 14:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 3 March 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― duane, Monday, 3 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― duane, Monday, 3 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Most of the rest doesn't move me to one extreme or the other.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 3 March 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcover_L150406.jpg
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
And neither do we, so f*** off ya talentless c***
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
NME gave the Scream dogs abuse for the Give Out But Don't Give Upalbum. Infact they really hated rocks in particular when they reviewed the single.
That album may not be perfect but I don't think it's as bad as NME & Co claimed at the time.
The new album is a return to stonesy stuff isn't it? hmmm. I'm not sure thats a great idea though, they've spent years trying to get rid of that image. Still lets wait and see what it sounds like before judging. After all Evil Heat was just a rehash of xtrmntr(their best album IMO)
At least the Scream aren't just content releasing clones of Screamadelica which I'm sure the press would've preferred.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
'nuff said?
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
that don't remember screamadelica.
they were only 11 when xtrmntr was released.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Their management had arranged for Luton Airport to remain open longer than usual so the band could fly in after playing in Dublin. Apparently Luton wasn't "rock 'n' roll" enough, and the band refused to make the trip. They were banned from appearing on the show for the next three years.
Say no more. Oh wait...
"He’s just Michael Hutchence with a better record collection and a worse voice, you know, hehe."Edwyn Collins speaking of Bobby Gillespie
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
pash, did you ever write the bobby/alex from blur slash? that sounds totally horrifying.
― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
HOWEVER: that OMM live review made me want to put my fist thru the monitor screen in front of me- christ! so many lazy rock'n'roll cliches... someone got paid to write that heap of sphincter-fellating old todge?
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I wish it was.
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― cw (cww), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― cw (cww), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
bollocks. the new single sounds like xtrmnr-era prml scrm going rock, with a mandolin, and as such is absolutely fucking wonderful. irritatingly, it disappeared from the iTunes music store (UK) just as i was trying to buy it, and now won't come back. fuckers.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
pic has got a lot of "day release from Monster Mansion" energy.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 October 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
Hilarious
Siri show me 'an almost transcendental lack of self-awareness' please. (From Bobby Gillespie's book). pic.twitter.com/EB0tGFmc7O— ⚫Neil Kulkarni (@KaptainKulk) May 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 May 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
He's beyond parody but I'm going to keep on trying.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:21 (one year ago) link
lol I think all the music hacks who encouraged him for decades should bear some responsibility for his condition. Someone from literature-twitter pointed out that the Kipling quote is wrong!
― calzino, Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
All Boaby knows about Kipling is that he makes exceedingly good cakes.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
That truly is something else.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Really sad to read how they treated Martin Duffy
Primal Scream really don’t come out well from this. https://t.co/9GZGirdgiT— Michael Hann (@MichaelAHann) June 7, 2023
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 June 2023 04:37 (ten months ago) link
Not sure how that double posted
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 June 2023 04:38 (ten months ago) link
why was this pdf posted to this particular site? (dafts...)????
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 8 June 2023 08:18 (ten months ago) link