The Bobby Gillespie Bullshit game

I think my bullshit detector just broke

treasure trove

I've read worse from Bobby tbh!

Yeah, that made him seem pretty cogent and self-aware.

Agreed

"some of them wear dresses"

I didn't think I cld have loved him more, yet here I am...

Uhhhhh

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/celtic-fans-back-palestine-football

Well done, fake Celtic fan, Bobby Gillespie.

or the trade unionists of the 1970s who gave shelter to Chilean refugees on the run from Pinochet’s fascist thugs

sounds a bit bullshit, is it one of his dad's shaggy dog stories?

There is this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6d0xKZNRg

that was impressive, but not quite what Boab is describing!

You can't expect Bobby to get these little details right.

or the trade unionists of the 1970s who gave shelter to Chilean refugees on the run from Pinochet’s fascist thugs

sounds a bit bullshit, is it one of his dad's shaggy dog stories?

― calzino, Saturday, June 29, 2019 3:36 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually true, trade unionists were active in the Chile Solidarity movement. My dad was spokesperson of Chile Democratico in Scotland and had good relationships with prominent trade unionists active in the movement including Mick McGahey and Bill Speirs. And this solidarity included in some cases literally having refugees kip at their flats (though if I remember rightly my dad was taken in by a CPGB member on arrival). The association continued and when Pinochet was under arrest in London the meeting in Glasgow was held at the STUC building, STUC didnt charge anything for use of venue

revolutionary Boab's lefty card renewed !

Aye, but if Boab Snr. had taken a Chilean refugee in do you think we'd have ever heard the end of it? From both of them?

aye looks like our wee Boaby sold "Movin' On Up" to Volkswagen?

punk rock is for the volk

maybe he'll justify it by saying him and his romancer dad once smuggled 8 Chilean refugees in the boot of a volks from Santiago to Glasgow.

tbf its for VW's electric car but we all know why VW is making electric cars at all, right...

to fire them into space?

lawsuits were involved

also goths

Volkswagen means "people's car", that's right up Boab's street. Of course, it's Nazi people, but, as mentioned previously, Boab's not strong on details.

quick someone re-edit the volkswagen ad using 'swastika eyes' instead

waitaminute the car is called the volkswagen skive? clearly someone in product development didnae check a scots dictionary as part of their due diligence

oh no, that's just the name of the youtube channel i found with the ad, stand down everyone

Both have been criticised for polluting the environment with toxic emissions, although to be fair Primal Scream don't play that much from Riot City Blues any more.

I remember someone is Q magazine asked Gillespie "One bullet-Blair or Bush?" and he seemed genuinely conflicted about who to choose

What was your childhood or earliest ambition?

To be an astronaut. I was born about the time Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. I identified with Yuri. In the end I became a cosmonaut of inner space.

absolutely extraordinary, a new peak

the film inner space, but he goes up his own arsehole and stays there

Wonderful stuff from our intrepid space cadet

Wee boab doing a Q&A as part of a Neu documentary at the Barbican this month.

I get the feeling he's going to repeat the story that's on the inner sleeve of Tago Mago reissue. no matter what questions he gets asked, like a briefed politician in a televised interview.

brb gonna buy a ticket then ask him a question based the content of on a tom d boabypost

Ask him what Jim Navajo is up to these days.

I'd like to go to this but do not want to give Bobby any further encouragement in his belief that anyone gives a fuck about his opinions on Neu! or anything else. Trailer (WARNING may contain Boab)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE-14hWLaKg

what is jim navajo up to these days?

Appearing in a documentary about the drummer from Birth Control.

He formed Primal Scream in 1982 whilst simultaneously playing drums with feedback rockers The Jesus & Mary Chain

Was he not also playing bass in The Wake at time too?

(WARNING may contain Boab)

Excellent Boaby content tbh

A number of public and cultural figures have signed a letter in support of Jeremy Corbyn to be distributed to newspapers and media outlets. Boab is not one of the signatories. He is not best pleased.

*Coldplay ringtone. Brian Eno answers*

BRI: Hello, Eno speaking.

BOAB: Holl', it's me.

BRI: Me? Who's me?

BOAB: Boaby fuckin' Gillespie, that's who.

BRI (slight pause): Oh, Mr. Gillespie, to what do I owe the considerable pleasure?

BOAB: Here, never mind that shite, whit's the sketch wi' this letter?

BRI: Letter? Forgive me...

BOAB: The fuckin' letter supporting fuckin' Corbyn, don't get wide wi' me, baldy.

BRI (bristling): Right, what about the letter?

BOAB: How am ah no' oan it?

BRI: ... er, I...

BOAB: Ah mean, ah've no' even heard o' hauf o' the cunts who ur oan it...

BRI: ... well it's...

BOAB: Plus it's fuhll o' fuckin' Yanks - like that lanky cunt, Thurston Moore. Whose fuckin' band ur shite, by the way, ah mean where's aw his gold records? Oh aye, that's right, *voice rising to a pitch* he's no' fuckin' goat any! Let me ask ye this, big yin - were his band a key part of the mid-1980s indie pop scene, eventually moving away from their jangly sound, taking on more psychedelic and garage rock influences, before incorporating a dance music element to their sound with their 1991 album Screamadelica, which broke them into the mainstream? Ah, don't fuckin' think so, mate.

BRI: He does actually live in the UK these days.

BOAB: Aye, using oor NHS and livin' aff benefits fae ma tax money, ah'll fuckin' bet!

BRI: If you don't mind me saying that is a bit reactionary?

BOAB: Reactionary? I'll react oan you in a fuckin' minute and, while ah'm at it, whit the fuck ur you daein' oan it, ah thoat you were a fuckin' Lib Dem these days?

BRI (heavy sigh): Not this again. Nick Clegg...

*Boab blows a raspberry*

BRI (clearing throat): ... Nick Clegg hired me as an advisor on youth issues...

*sniggering from Boab*

BRI (firmly): ... on youth issues, but that's as far it went, I imagine he felt he needed someone who was more in touch with the concerns of young peop...

*sentence interrupted by a full minute of hysterical laughter from Boab*

BRI: ... if you've quite finished.

BOAB (wiping tears away): ... aw man ... ah'm sorry man but... noo ah've heard everyhin'! Fuckin' Brian fuckin' Eno 'hinks he can talk to the kids oan the street, how you gonnae dae that? Wi' a 90 minute album of a fuckin' tap runnin'? Ya fuckin' clown!

BRI: Right this phone call is going nowhere.

BOAB: Aye, and your fuckin' letter is goin' nowhere! Stick yer fuckin' feather boa up yer erse, ah preferred yer earlier funnier albums anyway! Bryan Ferry was better looking than you, he was a better dresser than you, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of you!

BRI:.. OK, I'm hanging up now.

BOAB (still fulminating): ... with your cigars. With your brandy. And your rotten painting, rotten! Bryan Ferry, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!

*Boab's wife enters the room*

MRS BOAB: Robert, I've just had a nice phone conversation with an American chap called Thurston Moore, he's interested in maybe working with you.

BOAB (with childlike glee): Is he?!?!?! Here, that's smashing that! I've always liked that Sonic Youth. Wait tae ah tell the guys in the band!

*BOAB runs off almost skipping*

sublime

a 90 minute album of a fuckin' tap runnin'

would listen *puts it on and listens*

tom and savage pencil need to do an oor boaby annual together

Xp it’s probably in here somewhere http://everynoise.com/new_releases_by_genre.cgi?region=GB&albumsonly=true&style=cards&date=&genre=global&artistsfrom=#water

that link makes me want to pee

ilm is good again

Track by track commentary from Bobby for 2013's clunker "More Light"? Yes please! He manages to misquote JG Ballard within the first minute.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6hIPAoP6Y5N2CLuyhzNmaL?si=eqrwttdxSpSkcFBzYeP6sg