2006 - The Primal Scream is...
Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Lead Guitar
Robert 'Throb' Young - Guitar
Martin Duffy - Keyboards
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield - Bass
Darren Mooney - Drums

2006 - Gerry McElhone manages the band
Notes: Former Altered Images manager and long term friend of Bobby's manages the band.

M - 2006 - The Guardian publish headline "It Moss Be Love. Primal Scream's Bobby 'comforted' by model after split with fiancee"
Notes: Both Kate Moss and Bobby would take legal action after the edited photo was published. The photoshopped image shows them holding hands, where as the original does not.

2006 - Riot City Blues Recording Session, Primal Scream Studio, Primrose Hill, London
Notes: The Guardian photograph Bobbie wearing clothes 'Givench'y by Riccardo Tisci. Photo Session by Karen Robinson for the Guardian. On the wall there is the Keith Moon poster from the 1994 tour, the rear sleeve photo from give out but don't give up LP, a rickenbacker guitar and a vox teardrop is hung on the wall too.

2006 - Robert Young aka Throbert finished recording the LP but does not tour with the band due to health reasons.
From The Guardian Sunday 23 April 2006 15.06 BST article by James Brown: Does he ever feel responsible for the health of the rest of the group? Lead guitarist Robert Young (known as 'Throbert') is not playing live with the band right now. 'You will understand where Robert is, James,' says Gillespie. 'He has some personal problems and he's dealing with them. He did play amazingly on the album - he can get a tune out of anything.
21 June 2006 00:00 Wednesday Primal Scream feature in The Independent (independent.co.uk) James McNair interview: Quizzed about Throb's absence, Gillespie treads carefully. "Let's just say that he's got some problems that he's got to sort out for himself. It's a hard thing to talk about, because it's private and it's his life, and I don't think I have the right to judge him." But he'd like to see his buddy from the earliest days of Primal Scream back on board? "I'd like Throbert to be alive. I'd like him to be well. I'd like him to be happy. Further than that I can't really say. I just hope he wants to get better."

2006 - Robert Young aka Throbert lives with his second wife, Rahcel, in Hove.
Notes: Robert settled in Brighton.

05 April 2006 - Rehearsals
Notes: Day before the Astoria show.
Guardian journalist James Brown attends. Two children wearing headphones come in with their mum - the wife of one of the roadies - when the group finish up, Mani shakes his hands and says, 'It's a young man's game, this', before grinning.

06 April 2006 - Bobby Gillespie's home.
From The Guardian Sunday 23 April 2006 15.06 BST article by James Brown:
Next day we are at Gillespie's house an hour before the gig, ready to go, his sister, me and Douglas Hart, who will be best man when Gillespie marries fashion stylist Katy England. Gillespie is listening to two tracks by Tom Petty he enjoyed as a teenager, 'I Need to Know' and 'American Girl". On the way through north London in the people carrier he sits in the front, looking like some sort of polluted priest in his ted jacket and jeans. Hart and I sit at the back and chat about models and opiates, and which is more likely to do you in quicker.

06 April 2006 Thursday - Astoria, London
Soundcheck: (Andrew Innes daughter bangs the drums)
Country Girl / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed_Kill Light / Detroit / Nitty Gritty / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kill All Hippies / When The Bomb Drops / 99th Floor / Medication / Rocks / Kowalski / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) / Accelerator / City / Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon cover) / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Little Barrie's first show with Primal Scream. Noel Gallagher with his girlfriend Sara, artist Jake Chapman, Joe Corre and the gang from Agent Provocateur, Mick Jones & Douglas Hart all attend the show.
Backstage Mick Jones tells Bobby 'Hey, that was a good show - people love rock'n'roll and you're getting better and better.'
Andy Weatherall DJ's the after show party.

From The Guardian Sunday 23 April 2006 15.06 BST article by James Brown:
Pre-gig in the dressing room and Little Barrie is pacing nervously, while Mani sits in a pillar box red shirt and trainers, vibing to the Stooges on the stereo, pursing his lips into a big sexy snarl. Gillespie clips a white string bow tie onto his shirt. Duffy is tapping the beat out on his can of Strongbow. He must be boiling, looking like a French barge captain in his black cap and a dockers coat.
'This was Johnny Thunders's bowtie,' Bob tells me and scoots on by. Scully, a legendary ticket tout, storms in and wishes them well now he's finished selling his wares outside. 'You know,' says Hart, 'Scully's dad and Bobby's dad were both in the unions, they know each other that way. One time me and Bob took Scully to a Noam Chomsky lecture at the LSE - it was mental.'
And then they are out, onto the stage: no gimmicks, just a band of mean musicians in their early middle-age, playing the music they've pursued for two decades. In the balcony, the infamous mingle...
Little Barrie, the new guitarist in Primal Scream, is our window tonight on to the chaos that surrounds the band. He looks like a portrait of Johnny Marr as painted by LS Lowry: slight rather than small, with black shoes, tight jeans and a tight T-shirt - a look that Bobby Gillespie also favours. When Barrie picks at that big guitar, it wails.
We are backstage after his first gig with the Scream, surrounded by the multitude of people who pile into a dressing room of a band after a great performance: the well-wishers, the friends, the visiting rock legends, the great-looking women, the regular girlfriends, the touts, the blaggers, the record company people, the publicists, the agent, the manager, the old friends, the future friends, those that have come to loot the rider and the sober writer, chewing his pen on the settee and being flirted with by the party girls who are pouring champagne and suggestions around as if they'd like to corrupt him.
For 30 hectic minutes in this tiny room upstairs at the Astoria in London in the first week of April, Barrie has shaken hands, been introduced, been congratulated and listened to enthusiastic praise. It is a noisy, babbling crush of euphoria. And then, for a brief moment, Little Barrie is alone. He turns his head left and right and wonders who or what to do next. He catches the eye of the writer and just blows his cheeks out for a second. ' Whew ... this is exhilarating stuff,' he's thinking. 'I'm in the Scream and this is what it's like.' And the writer smiles, too, because he is sitting there amid the pandemonium thinking, 'It's good to be back.'
It's 15 years since I was last in a dressing room writing a report for a music magazine - and then it was the Manic Street Preachers, the Pet Shop Boys and the Scream, all within a fortnight of each other. Since that time, there's been the process of giving up the drink and drugs but Barrie and I laugh with each other, because for him this is new, and for me it's perhaps where I am meant to be. We are the window on to the speedy buzz that is everywhere because Primal Scream have just rocked for 90 minutes in a super-distilled brew of the Stooges, the Stones, Motorhead doing Kraftwerk, and the Cramps. It was raw, stripped down, no fat. Just lean rhythms and untamed noise.
Douglas Hart, the former Jesus and Mary Chain bassist turned film-maker, squeezes onto the settee, which already hosts Mick Jones of the Clash, the writer, a cute A&R girl called Tara, Jess, who is the sexy PR from the Agent Provocateur underwear company, and Gillespie himself, the singer with the band. And Hart says, 'You see, I said it would be like a Marx Brothers scene in here.'
Everyone is attracted to the Scream - a sort of biker gang made by Airfix...
Andrew Innes: 'You might wonder: "How do a band of 40-year-old Scottish fuck-ups get like that?" I think the answer is, we don't think we're good enough. Bob and I always want to do better. With Screamadelica , I was trying to do the tracklisting and I took it to Kevin Shields to see what he thought, because I thought nothing sounds right together and that no one would like it. In the end people liked it because nothing sounded right together. 'So that's Primal Scream: 24 years of trying to get better all the time. Knowing when you've made a good record and at other times only an OK one. This is a good one - there's so much in it. The music is upbeat, whereas in the past we've fucked up many times. Some of the shit we've done!'
Another review 10 April 2006 00:00 Monday The Independent.co.uk (independent.co.uk) by Chris Mugan also featured in the newspaper.
07 April 2006 00:44 Friday The Independent.co.uk (independent.co.uk) Review by Chris Mugan: First Night: Primal Scream, Astoria, London. Like a Stones tribute band, only without the knowing humour. It was only rock and roll but, like The Rolling Stones, they still liked it. Having explored southern-fried influences and dark electro vibes on recent albums, Primal Scream have returned to the comforting bosom of unreconstructed boogie. 2002's Aimless Evil Heat ran the gamut between Kraut rock and the stormy layers of My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields. This preview of new album Riot City Blues showed the Scream at their most carefree and primitive since the trad Give Out But Don't Give In. Though while that was the sound of the Stones in Memphis, they have now adopted the boozy party vibe of The Faces. Indeed, even without the mandolin of the single version, the opening number "Country Girl" chugged along like a robust hoedown. "Suicide Sally And Johnny Guitar" was as innovative as Bill Haley's Comets, though the more expansive "When The Bomb Drops" showed the difference former Stone Roses bassist Mani has made. While Give Out relied on session musicians, now the band could dictate their feel. Old favourites were stripped down to their basics. Sixties cult heroes Thirteenth Floor Elevators' "Slip Inside This House", given an acid work-out on the Scream's classic Screamadelica, came in a more respectful garage style. Likewise, John Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth" was just as vibrant. After his combative appearance at last year's Glastonbury, singer Bobby Gillespie was on his best behaviour, befitting his garb of a plantation gent. Either side of him it was a night for guitarists. Andrew Innes provided fuzz while Robert Young, replacing the aforementioned Shields, pulled out some wickedly dirty riffs. Where Give Out was limp, new songs shone with Martin Duffy's barroom piano and Mani's bright basslines. It was the band's passion that enabled those numbers to stand beside the shadowy technoid funk of "Kill All Hippies". As ever, the band's problem was Gillespie's lyrics, as cliche-ridden as a battered leather jacket. Without any effects overload, the band sounded doubly anachronistic on new material. It is difficult to sing about sin when you can buy king-size rolling papers with impunity.
Highlights, though, were plentiful. "Moving On Up" remained one of the best fusions of British grit and gospel euphoria, while "Jailbird" contained a swagger you could not achieve in mere pastiche. Nor were politics forgotten. Despite their debauched image, the band have attached themselves to such tricky causes as Palestine and unjustly imprisoned Satpal Ram. In this vein, a venomous "Swastika Eyes" showed them at their most focused. At other times, the Scream did sound like a Stones tribute band, albeit without the knowing wink and knockabout humour. Instead, they communicated a clear-eyed idealism and unstoppable self-belief. For a second encore, the band reprised the forthcoming single and the well-loved "Rocks", which went down just as well as they did before. After many makeovers this showing was more of an affirmation.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - My Soul Is Unclean Live In London 2006 - 2 CD-R - CD1 Country Girl / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed_Kill Light / Detroit / Nitty Gritty / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kill All Hippies / When The Bomb Drops / 99th Floor / Medication / Rocks / Kowalski / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up - CD2 - Slip Inside This House (cover) / Accelerator / City / Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon cover) / Country Girl / Rocks

2006 - Bobby Interview at The Old Queen's Head, Islington, North London
From The Guardian Sunday 23 April 2006 15.06 BST article by James Brown:
'Sorry I'm late,' Gillespie says a week earlier, rushing into The Old Queen's Head in Islington, north London, in a long, black calf-length leather coat that looks as if it might have seen action in Carlito's Way. The 41-year-old singer is newly returned from shooting a video in Los Angeles and is buoyant. Inside the coat is a pink backstage sticker from a Strokes gig. Underneath, he is wearing a grey John Smedley crew neck over a yellow T-shirt. His lack of any discernible arse means his drainpipe Levis hang low on to his black shoes. On the front belt loop he has two safety pins. Tall and skinny, he lurches a little when he moves.
Having spent two days being sucked into the stroppy, vital sound of his band's forthcoming album Riot City Blues, their ninth, I ask whether he's been inspired to get back to a leaner rock'n'roll sound by all the young guitar groups that have sprung up recently, or whether the record is a reflection of a recent tour through his own collection. But rather than answer, he starts talking about yoga....
For an outfit so steeped in the dark arts and private pursuits of rock'n'roll folklore, it's inevitable that some will struggle to last the course. 'Well, we've all had our problems and we've dealt with them. Most importantly, we wouldn't still be here as a band or as people if we didn't take the music seriously. Me and Innes have been working on Primal Scream five days a week for the last 10 years. Whatever goes on outside of that mustn't negatively affect what goes on with the music.'....

M - 15 April 2006 - Primal Scream appear on the cover of NME Magazine
Notes: 'Louder Than Liam, Darker Than Doherty...Primal Scream 'We still don't give a f***'.'

26 April 2006 - Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

27 April 2006 - The Ritz, Manchester
Notes: I was there. Robert Young joined the band on stage for a few songs.

28 April 2006 - Queen Margaret Union (QMU), Glasgow

DJ Mani - 05 or 08 May 2006 - Movers And Shakers, Jamm, 261 Brixton Road, Brixton, London, SW9
Notes: 2 hour DJ Set.

13 May 2006 Saturday - Radio 1's Big Weekend, Camperdown Park, Dundee
Movin On Up / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / When The Bomb Drops / Country Girl / Swatstika Eyes / Rocks
Notes: I was at the BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Preston, 2007. Tickets were free, you had to apply through the BBC website and you were randomly selected for tickets. I think it was a maximum of two person application and you had to have a local postcode to be able to enter. The show was broadcast on the BBC. I presume the show was shown on BBC Red Button service and the I-Player too. There may have been a BBC radio boradcast too.
Apparently Mani was arrested at the hotel, 12 May, because the bar staff refused to serve him anymore alcohol. The hotel rang the police as Mani appeared to be aggresive towards the staff. Mani was released an hour before going on stage.
Broadcast: BBC
Bootleg: (Interview) / Movin On Up / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / When The Bomb Drops / Country Girl / Swatstika Eyes / Rocks

2006 - Country Girl Video Shoot L.A., U.S.A.
Notes: The video was shot with director Jonas Akerlund, who has worked with The Prodigy and Madonna. The uncut version has shots of a buxom cowgirl snorting lines of white powder and swigging from the obligatory bottle of Jack Daniel's.

22 May 2006 - Country Girl U.K. Release Date
Art Direction by Hallso, Dominic Goodman, Rupert Smith. Photography by William Eggleston.

Country Girl - Written by Primal Scream. Recorded by Clive Goddard. Programmed by Tim Bran. Engineered by Ryan Castle. Assistant Engineer - Andy Brohard. Technicians (Assistants at Olympic Studios) – George Renwick & Joel Cormack.
Mixed by D. Sardy at The Village Recorder, West Los Angeles, CA. Produced by Youth. Produced, recorded and programmed for Big Life Management.
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen & Edited By (Digitally) by Stewart Whitmore for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

Stone Ya To The Bone - Written by Primal Scream. Mixed by Matt Howe at Westpoint Studios.

Gimme Some Truth - Written by John Lennon (Lenno Music (GB) / Sony-ATV Tunes LLC / Sony Music International / Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC). Recorded by Clive Goddard. Programmed by Tim Bran. Engineered by Ryan Castle. Assistant Engineer - Andy Brohard. Technicians (Assistants at Olympic Studios) – George Renwick & Joel Cormack.
Mixed by D. Sardy at The Village Recorder, West Los Angeles, CA. Produced by Youth. Produced, recorded and programmed for Big Life Management.
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen & Edited By (Digitally) by Stewart Whitmore for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

Country Girl (Promo Video) 4:03 - Shot in LA with the director Jonas Akerlund. The uncut version has shots of a buxom cowgirl snorting lines of white powder and swigging from the obligatory bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Columbia
7inch
Country Girl 4:33
Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon cover)
UK Download
i-Tunes Exclusive Download
Country Girl (Beans & Fatback Mix)
CD1
Country Girl 4:33
To Live Is To Fly
CD2 82876834282
Country Girl 4:33
Stone Ya To The Bone 2:38
Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon cover) 2:30
ECD Section: Country Girl (Video)
Notes: According to Bobby Country Girl (Beans & Fatback Mix) is "a rough stripped back 'demo' version of Country Girl; There's a nod to Link Wray's 1971 album in the title of the mix." Innes additionally describes the version as "the Celtic Scream Orchestra meets the Louisiana Bayou head on at 100mph".

26 May 2006 Saturday - Isle Of Skye Music Festival, Ashaig Airstrip, Broadford, Isle Of Skye * Support Act(s): Dirty Pretty Things, John Martyn, Seth Lakeman, The Paddingtons, The Aliens and more
Notes: Kasabian headlined the previous night.
2006 - VH2 Live: Primal Scream: Live In Your Living Room

31 May 2006 - Riot City Blues Japanese Release Date
CD Japan Columbia/Sony SICP-1085
Country Girl (cover)
Nitty Gritty
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
When The Bomb Drops
Little Death
The 99th Floor
Boogie Disease
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)
Hell's Comin' Down
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
Stone Ya To The Bone
To Live Is To Fly
Notes: UK B-Sides Stone Ya To The Bone & To Live Is To Fly are Japanese bonus tracks. See 06 September 2006 for the Deluxe CD & DVD Edition.

05 June 2006 - Riot City Blues U.K. Release Date
Country Girl - Written by Gillespie / Innes / Duffy / Mounfield. Produced by Youth for Big Life Management.
When The Bomb Drops - Features Will Seargent on guitar
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll) - Written by Gillespie / Innes / Duffy / Mounfield. Produced by Youth for Big Life Management.
Hell's Comin' Down - Features Warren Ellis
- Features Alison Mosshart on backing vocals.
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely - Written by Gillespie / Innes / Duffy / Mounfield. Produced by Youth for Big Life Management.
Advance 'Album Title TBC' CD Promo
CD
Country Girl
Nitty Gritty
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
When The Bomb Drops
Little Death
The 99th Floor
We're Gonna Boogie (Boogie Disease)
Sweet Rock n Roll (Come On Baby, Let's Have A Good Time) (Dolls)
Hell's Comin' Down
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
LP Vinyl
CD
Country Girl
Nitty Gritty
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
When The Bomb Drops
Little Death
The 99th Floor
Boogie Disease
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)
Hell's Comin' Down
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
Notes: The Maximum Rock 'N' Roll sleeves notes indicate Country Girl is an original but I'm sure this was a cover version?
Virgin Megastores stocked an exclusive 12x12 Art Print which was given away with initial purchases of the album.
Dolls was originally just titled Sweet Rock 'n' Roll.
Boogie Disease was originally titled 'We're Gonna Boogie'
Echo & The Bunnymen's Will Seargent plays additional guitar on When The Bomb Drops. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis guests on Hell's Comin' Down.
The Kills' Alison Mosshart provides background vocals.

06 June 2006 - XFM Session, XFM Studios, Manchester
Country Girl / Dolls / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
Notes: Often noted as 14 June 2006, possibly the broadcast date?
Broadcast: XFM
Bootleg: XFM webstream
Bootleg: XFM FM

06 June 2006 - Session, BBC Radio, Maida Vale Studios, London
Movin' On Up / Dolls / Nitty Gritty / Kill All Hippies / When The Bomb Drops / Kowalski / Country Girl / Rocks

June 2006 - Later With Jools Holland, BBC TV Studios, London
Country Girl / Dolls (Alison Mosshart from The Kills, The Dead) / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
Video Bootleg: United Kingdom 2006 (Footstomp, FSVD-296, NTSC) DVD-R

10 June 2006 - Isle Of Wight Festival * Support Act(s): Dirty Pretty Things
Broadcast: Dolls / Country Girl / Rocks / Movin' On Up

M - 2006 - Primal Scream feature on the cover of 'Sonic' Magazine, issue Number 29 of the Swedish magazine.
Notes: Priced at 6.50 Euro.

2006 - Mani Interview by Stephen Dalton
Notes: From Uncut Magazine 13 May 2016, Interview by Stephen Dalton:
13 May 2016 - Uncut Magazine features The Stone Roses story
Notes: MANI’S STORY How do the internal politics of Primal Scream differ from those of the Roses? “The Primals is more of a democracy, whereas with The Stone Roses we were more looking over our shoulder seeing if Ian and John were pleased. Because they were writing the songs and being touted as the Lennon-McCartney, Jagger-Richards kind of thing. For me now there’s a lot more freedom. Primal Scream are as good at bullshit detection as The Stone Roses ever were.”
Who’s a better singer, Bobby Gillespie or Ian Brown? “They’re both equidistant and beautiful. You can’t have one without the other, because Primal Scream and Stone Roses were running on parallel courses for years. Bobby went to the same gigs in Glasgow that me and Ian and John went to in Manchester. They’re mirror images of each other, except they wore shit-stopping trousers and winklepickers, and we wore baggy fucking jeans and Adidas trainers.”
What are your memories of that final Roses show at Reading in 1996? “Good memories, in a way, because I knew one way or another that would close the book. Ian had a fucking hell of a lot of weight on him at that point. Just imagine your best friend leaving you in the lurch like that – it ain’t good. There were reasons, and I’m still good friends with John – I’m godfather to three of his kids. But with my hand on my heart, I can proudly say I stuck with Ian until the fucking end out of an absolute sense of dignity and love.” How often do you see John Squire? “I spoke to John last week. I last saw him about a month ago. I go up to his farm in Macclesfield, because like I say, I’m godparent to his kids. We phone up, and in his usual way way we have a good laugh. A lot of people have John down as being very quiet and insular, but I know how to tickle him. He’s a great kid.”
What’s John up to musically? “Erm… painting.” Didn’t he say last year that he was planning to reform the Roses? “He did, and I think that’s what really pissed Ian off. Its like, how dare you without asking me? Me and Reni would be bang up for it. But he’s got to square things with Mr Brown, man. Come on, they’ve both got hair around their knackers, they’re both 43 years of age now, be adult about it for fuck’s sake, guys. Listen to me! Henry Kissinger is in the house!” How’s your scheme coming along to bring John and Ian together without their knowledge? “I’d just love them to phone each other up, just straighten it out. It’s like a Mexican stand-off. If I could get them together I fucking sincerely would because we were the tightest gang in town. But then it could be claret, snot and teeth flying about the place. It could go either way! Basically it’s a pride thing. Ian’s still very hurt and I think John – I hope he doesn’t hate me for saying this – but John should pick up the phone and give him a call. There’s no need for John to be penitent, because it was so dysfunctional at that time, and John’s a driven guy. But he could have gone about it a better way.” You have made it clear you’d be up for one last Roses tour. Have you had serious offers from promoters? “There’s probably been fucking loads. I’ve been spoken to by a certain big promoter.”
Presumably Simon Moran of SJM, John’s sometime manager? “Yeah. He’s mad for it to happen. I can’t go into figures but we’d all be able to fucking retire. But we always said it’s not about the money, otherwise we could have fucking sold our souls to the devil 10 times over. We did it just for making music and trying to change people’s attitudes to the Royal Family and racism and all that kind of shit. It was about being the vanguard of change and showing people off council estates that they can fucking form bands and do it. And then you got Verve and Oasis and all these kids.”
So, in that sense, the Roses were a success? “Absolutely. I never can see it as a failed mission. Fucking hell! I’m from north Manchester – not the best part of town – yet I’ve been around the world two or three times playing music. I’m still comfortable, I’ve got a house. I could have ended up dealing crack or stealing cars or robbing houses, like a lot of my friends. Or dead.”
How about reforming for charity? “A one-off gig for charity would be fucking awesome. It doesn’t matter if we do it for 37-and-a-half pence. Just to do it would be a joy in itself. Then I could close that chapter in my life. The door is still ajar.” Ian seems doubtful that the other Roses would reform for charity. “I’d do it for charity, in an instant. I’m sure John would. And Reni.”
Reunion rumours went into overdrive after you, John and Reni were spotted out at an Arthur Lee and Love gig in Manchester last year… “Yeah. It’s weird what people assume. We only went out to watch Arthur Lee and have a few beers. But basically it was the first time Reni and John have met since Reni walked. And maybe this is a lesson for Squire and Brown, but as soon as they met it was just a big hug. Almost like there had never been animosity. It was joyous. All it needed was Mr Brown there and it would have been just the most special moment.”
There was speculation you were jamming together. True? “It’s a myth. I’ve thought about phoning John up for a jam but he’s got his three kids, and I’m double-busy in the Scream. As we sit here now, I’ve had more years in the Scream than I had in The Stone Roses. I’m now in my 10th year with the Scream. The thing is with Ian, he’s the biggest fish in his pond, and he’s created his pond. Why would he want to give that up? It would be a backwards move. But for the charity angle, I’m stating my case now, I would do it.”

21 June 2006 00:00 Wednesday Primal Scream feature in The Independent (independent.co.uk) James McNair interview.
Notes: As the interview winds down, I ask Gillespie about his unfulfilled ambitions, He says he'd like to write a classic love song; something as good as Dan Penn and Chips Moman's "Dark End of the Street". "A heartbreaking, cheatin' thing," he says. "Something with some guilt in it." And a little bit of redemption perhaps? "Maybe. But I don't know if there's any real redemption once you're guilty." See Media for the complete article.

02 July 2006 - Hyde Park Calling, Hyde Park, London * Supporting: The Who
Moving On Up / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kil All Hippies / Burning Wheel / When The Bomb Drops / The 99th Floor / Medication / Kowalski / Swatstika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks
Bootleg: FM / Webcast - Moving On Up / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kil All Hippies / Burning Wheel / When The Bomb Drops / The 99th Floor / Medication / Kowalski / Swatstika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks

09 July 2006 - T-In The Park Festival, King Tut's Tent, Balado, Kinross

12 July 2006 - Zane Lowe Session, Maida Vale Studios, Maida Vale, London
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Sometimes I Feel So Lonely / Movin' On Up
Notes: Session included a chat and interview too.
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 DAB & FM
Bootleg: FM ((Sony STRDB1070) > Creative SBLive! > CD Wave Editor > Flac) (Interview) / Suicide Sally and Johnny Guitar / (Interview) / I Feel So Lonely / (Interview) / Movin' On Up

15 July 2006 - Summercase, parc del forum, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain * Supporting: New Order / Keane / Happy Mondays / The Chemical Brothers / The Dandy Warhols / The Divine Comedy / Rufus Wainwright / Starsailor / Two Gallants

2006 - Bobby complains to Islington Council regarding Alma Pub's curfew.
Notes: Alma Pub, Newington Green had been "playing recorded music at an unacceptable volume past 12 o'clock".
Notes:
From 17 January 2007 01:00 Wednesday - The Independent (independent.co.uk) by Cahal Milmo: A letter sent to Islington Council by the singer, obtained by The Independent, complained that the Alma Pub on Newington Green had been "playing recorded music at an unacceptable volume past 12 o'clock"..."There was a live percussionist playing along with the records, the sound was of a very high frequency which reverberated into my bedroom and my children's bedroom. I found the repetitiveness disturbing and I was unable to sleep because of it." In last summer's letter, Gillespie said a licence extension would mean that the pub was "disturbing the peace of our beautiful street and attracting noisy, drunk people to our area leaving the premises or coming into the area looking for a late-night drink - who are incidentally just [as loud] if not louder than the music being played". The singer added that he and his family had moved there "because it is quiet and beautiful". Mercifully for the rock star, the members of Licensing Sub-Committee A of Islington Borough Council had some sympathy. Although they agreed to extend the sale of alcohol at the pub and allow the live or recorded music until 1am Monday to Sunday, they ruled it could happen no more than once a month.
Gillespie and the management of the Alma declined to comment yesterday.

06 August 2006 - Riot City Blues Tour U.K. Release Date
Notes: First ever DVD from the band, included 13 promo videos and exclusive interview as bonus extras. The DVD was given the certificate age of 15.

07 August 2006 - Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll) U.K. Release Date
Sleeve designed At Hallso. Art Direction by Dominic Goodman & Rupert Smyth. Photography by William Eggleston.
Dolls - Written by Primal Scream.
Darrin Mooney - Drums. Additional Vocal & Percussion – Alison Mosshart.
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London. Produced, Recorded, Programmed for Big Life Management. Programmed By Tim Bran. Assistant Programmers – George Renwick & Joel Cormack at Olympic Studios.
Mixed by D. Sardy at The Village Recorder, West Los Angeles, CA. Produced by Youth. Recorded by Clive Goddard.
Edited By (Digitally) Stewart Whitmore for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA. Engineered by Ryan Castle. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

Zeppelin Blues While Thinking Of Robert Parker - Written by Primal Scream. Mixed by Matt Howe at Westpoint Studios. Edited By (Digitally) Stewart Whitmore for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

Bloods (Two Loneswordsmen Remix) aka (2 Lone Swordsmen Mix) - Written by Primal Scream. K. Tenniswood - Guitar, Bass. Martin Duffy - Melodica / Organ. Remix & Additional Production by 2 Lone Swordsmen at The Rotters Golf Club. Mastered by Doug Shearer at Townhouse.

Dolls (Promo Video)
Directed by Pedro Romhanyi. Produced by Gareth Francis.
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London. Published by EMI Music Publishing. Distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Designed At Hallso.

Columbia
7inch Vinyl
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar (Live XFM)
UK Download
i-Tunes Exclusive Download
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll) (Alternate Version)
CD1
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)
It's Not Enough (Johnny Thunders)
CD2 82876871622
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll) 4:02
Zeppelin Blues While Thinking Of Robert Parker 3:25
Bloods (Two Loneswordsmen Remix) aka (2 Lone Swordsmen Mix) 3:56

August 2006 - Reading Festival, Berkshire, Reading

26 August 2006 - Leeds Festival, Park, Leeds
Broadcast: Partial FM Radio
Bootleg: FM Broadcast () Movin' On Up / Dolls / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks

31 August 2006 - Myspace 'Secret Show' Gig, The 100 Club, London
Neat, Neat, Neat (The Damned Cover)
Notes: Myspace Competition Ticket Winners Secret Show. Country Girl Tour, A Limited Edition, of 400, posters were available to buy at the merch stand. Each numbered top right with marker pen.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 2 CD-R

06 September 2006 - Riot City Blues Deluxe CD & DVD Edition Japanese Release Date
Columbia/Sony SICP-1134 Deluxe CD & DVD Limited Edition
Country Girl (cover)
Nitty Gritty
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
When The Bomb Drops
Little Death
The 99th Floor
Boogie Disease
Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)
Hell's Comin' Down
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
Stone Ya To The Bone
To Live Is To Fly
Zeppelin Blues While Thinking Of Robert Parker
Gimme Some Truth
It's Not Enough
Bloods (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix)
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar (Live Xfm Session)
DVD NTSC
Country Girl (Censored) (Video)
Country Girl (Uncensored) (Video)
Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll) (Video)
Notes: Includes UK B-Sides as Japanese bonus tracks. Released to co-incide with the Japanese Tour. The release was available on tour and in store too.

Japan Tour 2006
11 September 2006 Monday - Zepp Fukuoka, Japan
12 September 2006 Tuesday - Zepp Osaka, Japan
13 September 2006 Wednesday - Zepp Nagoya, Japan
16 September 2006 Saturday - Zepp Sapporo, Japan

18 September 2006 Monday - Zepp Sandai, Japan
Movin' On Up / Dolls (Sweet Rock & Roll) / Jailbird / Shoot Speed/Kill Light / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kill All Hippies / Burning Wheel / When The Bomb Drops / 99th Floor / Medication / Kowalski / Swatstika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks
Bootleg: Audience Recording

20 September 2006 Wednesday - Zepp Tokyo, Japan
21 September 2006 Thursday - Zepp Tokyo, Japan
Notes: Sold Out Show.
22 September 2006 Friday - Zepp Tokyo, Japan
Notes: Additional date due to popular demand, tickets went on sale 26 August 2006.

DJ Mani - 27 October 2006 - 'Planet Of Sound', Mad Club, Persefonis 53, Gazi, Athens
Notes: Mani Djs at the club night.

11 November 2006 Saturday - Dublin
Movin' On Up / Dolls / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kill All Hippies / Burning Wheel / When The Bomb Drops / The 99th Floor / Medication / Kowalski / Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks
encore: Damaged / What Goes On (The Velvet Underground cover) / Rise / Accelerator / Sick City / Skull X
Bootleg: Audience Recording

13 November 2006 Monday - Academy, Birmingham
Notes: Rescheduled Date, Original Tickets Still Valid.
14 November 2006 Tuesday - Academy, Newcastle
15 November 2006 Wednesday - Music Hall, Aberdeen, Scotland
Notes: Sold Out Show.

16 November 2006 - Mani's 44th birthday

17 November 2006 Friday - SECC, Glasgow, Scotland
What Goes On (The Velvet Underground cover) /
Bootleg: Audience Recording

18 November 2006 Saturday - Apollo, Manchester
Movin' On Up / Dolls (Sweet Rock & Roll) / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light /Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kill All Hippies / Burning Wheel / When The Bomb Drops / 99th Floor / Medication / Kowalski / Swatstika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks
encore1: Damaged / Nitty Gritty / What Goes On (The Velvet Underground cover) / Accelerator
encore2: Loaded / Kick Out The Jams
Notes: I was there with my dad.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Shades Of Scream (cat. no. SOTN20) - 2 CD-R - CD1 - Tape/Introduction / Movin' On Up / Dolls (Sweet Rock & Roll) / Jailbird / Shoot Speed, Kill Light /Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Kill All Hippies / Burning Wheel / When The Bomb Drops / 99th Floor (FADE OUT) / Medication / Kowalski / Swatstika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks - CD2 - encore1: Damaged / Nitty Gritty / What Goes On (The Velvet Underground cover) / Accelerator / encore2: Loaded / Kick Out The Jams - Bonus Tracks - Neat, Neat, Neat (The Damned Cover) (31 August 2006 - Myspace Gig, 100 Club, London) / Country Girl (listed as XFM MCR session 14/6/06, see 06 June 2006 - XFM Session) / Dolls (listed as XFM MCR session 14/6/06, see 06 June 2006 - XFM Session) / Suicide Sally&Johnny Guitar (listed as XFM MCR session 14/6/06, see 06 June 2006 - XFM Session) / What Goes On (VU Cover) (listed as Live SECC,Glasgow 17/10/06, actually recorded 17 November 2006 Friday - SECC, Glasgow, Scotland)

19 November 2006 Sunday - Apollo, Manchester
Notes: This was an additional date to the tour, due to popular demand.

21 November 2006 Tuesday - University, Liverpool * Ticket Price: £20 * Doors Open: 19:30

22 November 2006 Wednesday - Rock City, Nottingham
24 November 2006 Friday - Hammersmith Apollo, Hammersmith, London
27 November 2006 Monday - Corn Exchange, Cambridge
28 November 2006 Tuesday - Academy, Bristol

29 November 2006 Wednesday - Guildhall, Southampton * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £20.00

18 December 2006 - Sometimes I Feel So Lonely U.K. Release Date
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely - Written by Gillespie / Innes / Duffy / Mounfield. Produced by Youth for Big Life Management. Mixed by Bacon and Quarmby.
7inch Vinyl Limited Edition to 2000 only.
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely (Winter Wasteland Symphony Version)
Gamblin' Bar Room Blues
UK Download
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely (New Version) aka (Winter Wasteland Symphony Version)
Gamblin' Bar Room Blues
i-Tunes Exclusive Download
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely (Bomb The Bass Remix)
Notes: Sometimes I Feel So Lonely was released as 7inch and Download only. The re-recorded version featured a children's choir and orchestra. Sony pushed the single for a Christmas 'themed' release.

2006 - Bobby Gillespie marries Katy England
Notes: Douglas Hart was the best man. Bobby & Katy's son's Wolf and Lux were both present at the wedding to his long term partner.

2007
2007 - Alan McGee's Poptones label ends
Notes: "financial difficulties"

2007 - Primal Scream turn down Steven Van Zandt's tour offer.
Notes: Primal Scream turned down an offer to tour America with Steven's band.
25 March 2009 Wednesday 10.43 GMT The Observer, Guardian, Sean Michaels:
Steven Van Zandt v Bobby Gillespie. Bruce Springsteen's right-hand man brands the Primal Scream singer a 'drug addict' and 'waste of space' for missing his chance of success in America.
Primal Scream turned down an offer to tour America, according to Steven Van Zandt, the guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, because of the drug problems of "waste of space" Bobby Gillespie. Van Zandt lashed out at Gillespie in an interview with the Daily Record, saying that Primal Scream "could be the biggest band in the world" if it weren't for their bad habits.
"I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times," he said. "I thought their album before this last one was one of the greatest records in 10 years. I begged them to come over. I had a whole tour for them."
Van Zandt is a highly respected figure in American music, writing hit songs, performing with Springsteen, hosting radio shows and even playing Silvio Dante on The Sopranos TV show. But when it came to Primal Scream, he couldn't get anywhere. "Their agent talked me out of it," he said. "[The agent] said: 'They can't do 20 shows.' I'm like, 'Come on, man. We do 20 shows a month.'"
"Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records – once every 10 years. But they can't tour because of drug problems, or whatever. I don't have patience for it. I'm like, all right, you want to be a drug addict, go be a drug addict. Don't waste my time."

04 August 2007 Saturday - Natural Music Festival (Guardias Viejas), El Ejido, Spain * Doors Open: * Ticket Price: 45 Euros (Day Ticket) 60 Euros (Weekend) * Supporting: Keane
Notes: Iggy Pop & The Stooges headlined the day before. The poster showed Keane at the top of the bill with Primal Scream second and then The Charlatans third on the bill. Other acts appearing on the day included Nacha Pop, The Pinker Tones, Lori Meyers, The Tamborines, Unfinished Sympathy, Dorian and more.

Primal Scream - 06 August 2007 - Riot City Blues Tour DVD U.K. Release Date
Notes: First ever live dvd, contains live concert, 13 promo videos and an interview with Bobby and Mani.

01 September 2007 - Connect Festival, Inveraray Castle, Argyll * Support Act(s): Fire Engines, The Only Ones, Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai
Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: The Jesus & Mary Chain played 31 August 2007. Mani narrowly avoids an pint being thrown his way. Rocks was dedicated to The Only Ones, Loaded to the Fire Engines.
Bootleg: Recording - Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks

2007 - Beautiful Future Sessions, RAK Studios
2007 - Beautiful Future Sessions, Das Bunker Studio, London
2007 - Beautiful Future Sessions, State Of The Arc Studios, London
2007 - Beautiful Future Sessions, Atlantis Studio and Decibel Studio, Stockholm, Sweden

2007 - Bobby attends CSS at The Astoria, London
Notes: CSS Singer Luisa Lovefoxxx would later record with the band and feature on I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt), whichn would appear on the Beautiful Future LP.
Bobby said: I went to see them at the Astoria (in London) and I think I made the invitation there. Then I wrote an email and sent the song to her and she really got carried away.

2007 - Beautiful Future Sessions, Das Bunker Studio, London
I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) (with CSS/Luisa Lovefoxxx)
Notes: Late 2007 Recording Session. Lovefoxxx, lead singer of Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) features on I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt). The track was possibily recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lovefoxxx recorded the track in late 2007.
From Terra.com interview, 06 October 2009 12:33pm by Osmar Portilho, São Paulo, Mani said: "The CSS kids are great. They became our friends. They're brilliant. We are always happy to meet them again," he said.

16 November 2007 - Mani's 45th birthday