Primal Scream.

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