Primal Scream.

some people on Twitter are hinting that they treated Throb the same way - and reading his Wikipedia page there are some shocking similarities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Young_(musician)

Have to wonder what sort of deal Kevin Shields had.

Obviously being in a band with people with addictions and substance abuse problems is hard work but, inevitably you feel, Bobby can't help but be just a teensy bit boastful about it...

Bobby Gillespie: ‘Primal Scream prided itself on being able to take more drugs than any other band’

when you're so debauched and out of control, but yet still finding that focus you require to have meetings with the accountant and screw people over.

i just saw the Louie Duffy statement

what a cunt Gillespie is

I used to see him as a joke figure, a rather stupid and pretentious fool trying very hard to project some ridiculous idea of cool and coming off like a total knobhead. But now I just think he's a fucking evil cnut.

Ugh

Bobby is a jobby.

Weatherall must have been on some very strong drugs to have been a fan of this band before making them sound half-decent for a couple of tracks.

Always remember Weatherall signing off his radio shows with the words "don't let the grubby little opportunists grind you down". Anyway,back to Bobby Gillespie...

Wild how it's now OK to think badly about Bobby Gillespie because of the Martin Duffy thing, yet this was never picked up on (from Miki's autobiography). High as a kite or not, why would this ever be acceptable behaviour? pic.twitter.com/1bRZVHg1Lp

— Frankosonic (@frankosonic) June 8, 2023

who is Travis?

Trump was right about Bobby Gillespie then.

(xp) Geoff?

Dave Lee?

From the C86 book by Nige Tassell

Interview with the original tambourine player from Primal Scream about their first deal.

Interesting given the inquest statement from Duffy’s son.

It appears like it was Primal Scream’s/Bobby Gillespie’s MO pic.twitter.com/9at1YSx7QN

— Nev Homer (@nevhomer) June 8, 2023

Bickle? xp

there might be a multitude of disgusting old lechs with the surname Travis in the music biz

https://www.stereogum.com/2226462/late-primal-scream-keyboardist-martin-duffys-son-accuses-the-band-of-financial-exploitation/news/

@MichaelAHann Bobby Gillespie was responsible for the most life-threatening stage idiocy I’ve ever witnessed, at Shepherds Bush Empire back in June 2001. As told by Mine Watt in his tour diary https://t.co/ZRVO4jNE8o pic.twitter.com/kefdKQB0tv

— Stet (@Letitstandnow) June 8, 2023

this in the replies - fucking hell

And if this account is correct, unsurprisingly, he didn’t even get his target https://t.co/tBDvRKz0ps pic.twitter.com/9dMGZqmbSy

— Stet (@Letitstandnow) June 8, 2023

Literally adding insult to injury: pic.twitter.com/F8KWLnupE9

— Kenny (@wingnutkj) June 8, 2023

Never trust Bobby Gillespie pic.twitter.com/U7DtnaK4MW

— Kunt and the Gang (@kuntandthegang) June 8, 2023

Weird, I would have thought junkies were good people.

Weird, I would have thought junkies were good people.

Seems like he and Innes got cuntier after getting sober?

sorry, I don’t want to get into it.

His drug of choice is (or was) speed anyway

Imagine the upcoming crystal palace bowl gig offers excellent opportunities for lobbing bottles of piss at Boab.

(xp) So he claims. I bet it was coke though.

amphetamines could explain his habit of uninhibitedly talking a lot of self-aggrandising shite for years. He was probably already like that but it would certainly make it much worse.

I remember an interview with Justine Frichmann, she was flatsharing with him around '97, she said he was too paranoid to ever answer the door, which sounds more like speed than coke.

Speed's more street and rock and roll than admitting you're a run of the mill coked up music biz arsehole

poor tenement boys can't afford coke!

Thanks to Andy Weatherall he could!

upcoming crystal palace bowl gig

Me and the kid have stuck our email addresses in the draw for free tickets for locals. Plan was always to go and get chips after the Mary Chain anyway, and this seals the deal.

sorry, I don’t want to get into it.

(I was agreeing with you)

Classic Bobby Gillespie diss track

https://i.postimg.cc/YSVRs29k/Screenshot-20230608-174615.jpg

"he buys coke and tells the music journos that it's whizz"

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

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtLi79_oIg0/?igshid=NzJjY2FjNWJiZg%3D%3D

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)