The Bobby Gillespie Bullshit game

they were definitely goth adjacent! andrew eldritch was their manager for a short while iirc and got them signed to a major

Primal Scream at the time were not even close to being the equal of most of those bands. Later they were, but not then.

yes but this is surely what made McGee worthwhile for several years - that he could see potential and nurture it. this is what A&R and label owners should do! it used to take most ppl an album or two to actually get good.

Bob's Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/primalscreamofficial) is a must, for all your rock 'n' roll iconography / radical politics needs.

Don't ever change, big man.

Classic Boab.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrZmKBkX4AAnXud.jpg

Bob's Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/primalscreamofficial🕸) is a must...

it's good but it's not

https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2011/06/PrimalScreamWomblesPR170611.jpg

Did no-one think to invite Orinoco?

https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/photo5908732877753921029.jpg

bobby gearing up to let varoufakis have both barrels on why he's wrong about the merits of the mc5 vs the stooges

varoufakis "hawkwind fan"

About 2 results (0.21 seconds)

he totally is though

he has two ears and a heart iirc

he has a hog he doesn't need that other stuff

*varoufakis hog throbbing in the background*

https://bilder.t-online.de/b/72/52/84/52/id_72528452/610/tid_da/sieht-sich-immer-wieder-attacken-aus-griechenland-ausgesetzt-finanzminister-wolfgang-schaeuble-.jpg

blimey, dave brock cleans up nicely

haven't read this, i only noticed it because there was a copy on the floor of the tube and the cover said something like 'the undimmed majesty of bobby gillespie'

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/bobby-gillespie-primal-scream-interview-a4131261.html

anyway, there's another 'best of' coming soon. and this one does include things from before Loaded.

Even after years of living in Islington, his Glaswegian accent is unchanged, as is his face, the passage of time somehow having contrived to swerve it entirely.

I had no idea I'd given an interview to the Evening Standard.

Gillespie exhibits the sort of passion and knowledge that makes you wish he’d follow in the footsteps of his union official-turned-Labour Party-candidate father (also Bob) and run for office.

... and lose a seat the Labour Party had held for centuries.

okay now i've gone full acclerationist and i want prime minister bobby gillespie, fuck it

"Whit? An audience wi' th' Queen? Fuckin' Brian May and his fuckin' badgers? GET TAE FUCK!"

> with two sons, Wolf, 17, and Lux, 14

is wolf a call-back to his spiritual father, citizen smith?

https://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/04/rexfeatures_739847ae-630x400.jpg

Has he got an album out or something?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/11/this-much-i-know-bobby-gillespie-primal-scream

Really laying on the working class Glaswegian hero bit with a trowel here. Give it a fuckin' rest, Bobby.

Has he got an album out or something?

from the link:

Primal Scream’s new album Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll: The Singles is out on 24 May.

I saw violence on the streets. I saw it at football matches and I saw it at school. I had to be careful as the minute I stepped out on to the street anything could happen.

So, basically it was like fucking everywhere else, then.

I have no idea but it sounds nothing like Mount Florida. God knows what he'd be saying if he'd grown up in Toryglen alongside (genuine Celtic fans) Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill.

Madonna is a prostitute, proclaimed Bobby on tonight’s Newsnight (for playing Eurovision). Also he is not an anti-semite, since “all his heroes are jews”, Karl Marx and Bob Dylan were cites.What a pure fud. Also he went to King’s Park Secondary which, while hardly a private school, ain’t exactly the ghetto. Bullshit indeed.

Cited, not cities

Here's the Newsnight clip:

“Madonna would do anything for money"

- Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie on Madonna performing in Tel Aviv at Eurovision.

Madonna has said she will “never stop playing music to suit someone’s political agenda" https://t.co/dIXMXIzVwU

MORE TONIGHT 22:30#newsnight #Eurovision pic.twitter.com/iRnpJk2TFE

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 17, 2019

... Mike & Bernie Winters, Maureen Lipman, Mr. Abie.

Ivor Cutler, Denis Norden, Marty Feldman

Wow, Mr. Abie's life took a dark turn, if this article by UNKNOWN is to be believed...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/troubled-radio-star-mr-abie-2409095.amp

fucking hell

Christopher and Robert, then aged 26 and 20, savagely beat and slashed the grandfather-of-15 in his Westwood bungalow. The brothers had wrongly believed the 65-year-old had assaulted their alcoholic mum.

one for the "real scotland" thread if it existed

Like an episode of Taggart.

Bobby otm re: Madonna tbh. Never seen any evidence of antisemitism from him iirc

What a sillyhead.
Which country isn't stolen land? Does he refuse to play America?

A glance at the “Controversy” section of his Wikipedia page suggests that the dude is either in fact anti-Semitic, or so dumb he can’t tie his own shoes... maybe it’s the latter, he sounds like a real piece of work all around. (Calling a pop star a “prostitute,” damn! Hot stuff.)

"one for the "real scotland" thread if it existed"

would deffo bookmark that one, be the change etc....

amazed there isn’t one already tbh, reflects badly on the ilx caledonian contingent imo

I'd love to see a Glasgow version of Mean Streets - with Boab wearing a prosthetic young face and playing the young version of himself - getting his pocket money knicked and the shit kicked out of him every day on the way to school by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill.

LOL Jim Kerr and his violent street gang of Genesis fans waylaying schoolboy Boab with his Coltrane albums under his arm.

"You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. Gillespie is bullshit and you know it"

Bobby Gillespie put in an objection to Islington Council about his local pub opening until midnight on weekends, and that's all you need to know about Bobby Gillespie.

— Jason Sinclair (@jlsinc) May 17, 2019

Once a Presbyterian...

"Which country isn't stolen land?"

Fucking hell.

makes u think

There was always a colonialism element to our insipid C86 jangle rock.