2008
Primal Scream are...
Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Martin Duffy - Keys
Mani - Bass
Darrin Mooney - Drums

2008 - Bobby goes clean and gives up drugs
Notes: Not sure when, but this was the year.
14 March 2013 Thursday 16.25 GMT - The Observer, Guardian, Tim Jonze Interview: Gillespie accepts that 2008's Beautiful Future might have been a bit off the pace due to his lack of sober focus: "I'd have written some of the lyrics better if I'd been a bit sharper. I know that for a fact; my thinking was a bit muddled in places."
Do the band worry that Gillespie going clean will affect the legendary Scream rep? Innes laughs, shaking his head: "We've got all the gold medals! We've broken all the world records! I think it was McGee who said – you've got to decide if you want to be a drug addict or a musician. Obviously we ignored him for about 10 years!"
July 2021 - Uncut Magazine/Website - 20 May 2021 - “Where does this rage come from, this suspicious nature , this anger , this cynicism ?”: How much of you is in lines like: “I put myself in some dangerous situations/Suffered black dog years of degradation” or “Sometimes I feel like love is a disease/Like addiction/That ecstatic taste that we chase to oblivion”? That’s me, that’s completely me. The songs are written from experience and also empathy. I know that, as a songwriter, I’m able to take life experience and mix it with the fictional and create a song. But those lines are very much me. I’m at the age now, late fifties, I’ve lived a life. Hopefully, I’ve managed to put those experiences into songs that other people can identify with. That’s what I’m hoping for, that communication really. Emotional inarticulacy is at the crux of this record. Something that I noticed, especially in the last 12 years or so since I’ve got clean from drugs and alcohol, is how inarticulate we are emotionally.
Do you have an example? When I used to go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, I noticed that when people tried to talk about their experiences, they didn’t know how to express themselves, so they would use found language that they’d heard other people using to describe the experience of addiction. You would get guys in there that were maybe like food critics for the fucking Sunday Times or toilet cleaners or guys that work in the City of London and everybody in between. They’d all share this emotional inarticulacy and you think there’s no wonder these relationships are failing, never mind the addiction to drugs and alcohol or whatever. It’s not a rehab record, by the way. Really, addiction is only one part of a wider struggle. I was just trying to write about how some things are worth fighting for. I think a marriage is worth fighting for...

2008 - ABC, 300 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Can't Go Back / Dolls / Miss Lucifer / Jailbird / Beautiful Future / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Suicide Bomb / Uptown / I Love To Hurt / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Rocks / Accelerator
encore: Kill All Hippies / Loaded / Movin' On Up
Notes: Set taken from setlist

Primal Scream - 30 May 2008 - Can't Go Back Japanese Promo
Can't Go Back (Radio Mix)
Can't Go Back (Radio Mix -clean-)
Can't Go Back (Album Mix)
Notes: See 14 July 2008 for U.K. Release Date

June 2008 - Mani Interview with Teletext's Planet Sound
Notes: Mani reveals that Wren had formed a new band with an unnamed member of Black Grape. Nothing emerged from this rumour.

20 June 2008 - Bobby Gillespie watches My Bloody Valentine play their reunion show at The Roundhouse, London

21 June 2008 - 229 Great Portland Street, London
Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Beautiful Future / Suicide Bomb / Kowalski / Uptown / Beautiful Summer / Shoot Speed, Kill Light Swastika Eyes / Rocks / Accelerator /
encore: I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Movin' On Up
Notes: Bobby & Mani were interviewed by XFM, which was partially broadcast too.
Broadcast: XFM Radio
Bootleg: FM - All Day Breakfast - 2 CD-R - CD1 - Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Beautiful Future / Suicide Bomb / Kowalski / Uptown / Beautiful Summer / Shoot Speed, Kill Light - CD2 - Swastika Eyes / Rocks / Accelerator / (Interlude) / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Movin' On Up / Interview

24 June 2008 Tuesday - An Evening with MC5 and Primal Scream - Massive Attack's Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London * Doors Open: 19:30 *
Set 1 : Primal Scream
Set 2 : MC5
Ramblin' Rose / Kick Out The Jams / Come Together / Motor City Burning / Call Me Animal / Sister Anne / Future/Now / Over and Over / Looking At You / I Believe To My Soul / The Human Being Lawnmower / The American Ruse
Set 3: MC5 and Primal Scream
I Can Only Give You Everything / Movin' On Up / Skull X / Rocket Reducer No.62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa) / Black to Comm
Notes: MC5 with Primal Scream. Primal Scream have previously covered both Ramblin' Rose and Kick Out The Jams during their career.
Adam Pearson (Sisters of Mercy guitarist) played rhythm guitar with MC5. The entire MC5 & Primal Scream show was recorded and released as a 2 CD & DVD set.
Official: Black to Comm (2 CD & DVD)
Review from 26 June 2008 Thursday 00.05 BST - The Observer, Guardian, Michael Hann Review: MC5/Primal Scream Royal Festival Hall, London @michaelahann. It's apt that Primal Scream have finally got to play with the MC5. Throughout their quarter-century career they have pinched swathes of the Detroit proto-punks' act, marrying high-energy rock'n'roll to faux-revolutionary sloganeering so addled it barely even qualifies as half-baked. The two bands share more than gesture politics and riffs, though: both are wildly inconsistent, veering from inspired to turgid in seconds. Primal Scream's opening set reminds us that the less they copy singer Bobby Gillespie's collection of classic rock albums, the better they are. Swastika Eyes is crushing and thrilling: its hi-NRG-cum-metal sounds uncannily like one of the Xenomania production team's efforts for Girls Aloud. But the new songs fare less well. Beautiful Future and Can't Go Back are entertaining enough slices of glam-meets-Krautrock motorik. But the mid-set pairing of Suicide Bomb and Uptown kills the momentum. The latter, an 80s-style pop ballad, sounds as if it were written to soundtrack a seduction scene in the original Miami Vice TV series. The former, with typical tact, sees Gillespie so sexually excited he's "going off like a suicide bomb". The MC5 must have been a blistering experience in Detroit 40 years ago. But the deaths of two members (the late Rob Tyner is replaced at the microphone by William DuVall, who already has a career replacing another dead singer in Alice in Chains) mean they are a cabaret turn these days, a role guitarist Wayne Kramer seems happy to accept. When they keep it tight and focused, as on Ramblin' Rose and The American Ruse, one appreciates why they have passed into legend. Too often, though, they trudge when one wants them to fly, dragging out the kind of blues-rock plods that punk was meant to put an end to. The two bands jam together to end the show, but it is more of a pleasure for the musicians than the audience, as jams usually are. I Can Only Give You Everything sounds fine, and Primal Scream's Movin' On Up actually benefits from four guitars, two basses and two drum kits. Gillespie is clearly delighted at singing Rocket Reducer No 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) with his heroes, but the session descends into self-indulgence when the 5's former "religious leader and spiritual adviser", John Sinclair, arrives to maunder interminably over the improvised Black to Comm. It's a piece of history, certainly - but sometimes history is best read about, rather than experienced.
Review from 27 June 2008 Friday 00:00 - The Independent (independent.co.uk) by Chris Mugan: For once, Primal Scream were happy to play second fiddle to their heroes – and, in the end, raised their game enough to play beside them. The band were last upstaged when Basement Jaxx took a Glastonbury 2005 headline slot above them after Kylie Minogue pulled out. Bobby Gillespie threw a hissy fit then; tonight he was more muted. After all, while Gillespie's stylistic magpies flit from one look to another, the MC5 have staked their claim as genuine anti-Establishment rabble-rousers.
The FBI would not bother to tap the Scream's phone lines, but then the Motor City Five were around when tanks were storming Detroit's streets in the 1967 riot. Where the two bands do share common ground is in a relaxed attitude to line-ups. Singer Rob Tyner and guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, then married to Patti Smith, passed away in the Nineties, around the time that singer/guitarist Wayne Kramer and bassist Michael Davis met up in prison (serving time for drug offences). The surviving members re-formed in 2003, and performed with the likes of The Cult's Ian Astbury and Motörhead's Lemmy. Since then, the group have toured sporadically as what Kramer calls a travelling circus.
The Scream, meanwhile, pick and mix members as their tastes dictate. Thankfully, Gillespie has dropped the bootlace tie that accompanied the Faces shtick of the band's previous album, Riot City Blues. His slim frame, dressed all in black, suits the cleaner lines of their follow-up, Beautiful Future, which features the same line-up as the last album, with youthful guitarist Barrie Cadogan looking very much the Keith Richards of the party. Their forthcoming single, "Can't Come Back", is pleasingly stripped back, while the louche "Uptown" and metronomic "Suicide Bomb" suggest newfound range.
So what? suggests MC5's swagger as they emerge. Kramer looks like a seedy Hollywood agent, Davis like Frankenstein's monster after a fight with a bull. Any suggestion that the band might be resting on their laurels is blown away by the garage punch of "Ramblin' Rose", which precedes a relentless assault from straight blues through proto-punk grind. Though they cite Sun Ra's free jazz as an early influence, these tracks suggest more a Midwest Lynyrd Skynyrd. The current guest vocalist, William DuVall, fronts grunge survivors Alice In Chains, yet here he convinces as a soul power singer – he even has his own Tyner-like afro.
When the two bands join each other on stage for an extended encore, Gillespie wrings out every ounce of sweat to match DuVall. It makes for a spectacular "Moving On Up" – even Kramer starts dancing – and ends in a free-form jam. The icing on the cake, though, is the appearance of MC5's once estranged mentor, John Sinclair, immortalised in song by John Lennon after being given 10 years for possession. Imperious, he recites a poem on the meaning of jazz. You have never seen Gillespie smile so broadly.

06 July 2008 Sunday - The Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN126PY * Doors Open: 11:30 * Ticket Price: £49.50 * Supporting: Neil Young
Notes: Primal Scream were second to headliner Neil Young. Supergrass, My Morning Jacket, Rufus Wainright also played on the one day festival. Poster read "No Registration. No Sponsorship. No Branding."

2008 - T In The Park
2008 - Bestival
2008 - V Festival

Primal Scream - 14 July 2008 - Can't Go Back U.K Release Date
Can't Go Back - Written by Primal Scream. Produced by Paul Epworth.
Notes: Promo CD denotes the release date as 14 July 2008.
Promo CD - BUN140-CDP
Can't Go Back (Radio Mix)
Can't Go Back (Clean Exit)
Can't Go Back (Album Edit)

21 June 2011 - Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) – Hits Me like A Rock (with Bobby Gillespie) Release Date
Notes: Single

21 July 2011 - CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) - La Liberación featuring Hits Me like A Rock (with Bobby Gillespie) Release Date
Notes: LP features the single Hits Me Like a Rock featuring Bobby Gillespie and Ratatat feature on Red Alert. The LP is often noted as being released on 29 August in the UK.

Primal Scream - 16 July 2008 - Beautiful Future Japanese Release Date
Primal Scream - 21 July 2008 - Beautiful Future U.K. Release Date
Mixed at Olympic Studios, London. Mastered at Alchemy Soho, London.
Beautiful Future - Recorded at RAK Studios and Das Bunker Studio, London. Strings recorded at Cosmos Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.

Can't Go Back - Written by Primal Scream. Produced by Paul Epworth. Recorded at RAK Studios and Das Bunker Studio, London. Barrie Cadogan - Additional guitar.

Uptown - Written by Primal Scream. Produced by Bjorn Yttling. Recorded at Atlantis Studio and Decibel Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. Backing Vocals - Ellekari Larsson, Lykke Li Zachrisson, Victoria Bergsman. Strings: Cello – Emma Lindhamre, Viola – Christopher ÖHman, Violins – Andreas Forsman & Erik Arvinder.
The Glory Of Love - Produced by Bjorn Yttling?. Recorded at Atlantis Studio and Decibel Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. Additional Keyboards Bjorn Yttling. Backing Vocals - Lykke Li Zachrisson, Maria Andersson, Victoria Bergsman. Strings: Cello – Emma Lindhamre, Viola – Christopher ÖHman, Violins – Andreas Forsman & Erik Arvinder.
Suicide Bomb - Recorded at Atlantis Studio and Decibel Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
Zombie Man - Produced by Youth. Recorded at State Of The Arc Studios, London. Engineered by Clive Goddard. Programmed by David Nock. Barrie Cadogan - Additional guitar. Additional Vocals – Juliet Roberts.
Beautiful Summer - Recorded at Atlantis Studio and Decibel Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. Backing Vocals - Victoria Bergsman. Strings: Cello – Emma Lindhamre, Viola – Christopher ÖHman, Violins – Andreas Forsman & Erik Arvinder.
I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) (with CSS/Luisa Lovefoxxx) - Written-By Lovefoxx. Recorded 2007. CSS/Luisa Lovefoxxx vocal recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Music and other tracks recorded in Das Bunker, London. Programmed By Jagz Kooner. Barrie Cadogan - Additional guitar.
Over & Over - Written-By – C. Mcvie (Fleetwood Mac cover) Recorded in Das Bunker, London. Barrie Cadogan - Additional guitar. Backing Vocals - Linda Thompson. Strings: Cello – Emma Lindhamre.
Necro Hex Blues (aka 'Viva!') - Written-By – J. Homme. Josh Homme - Additional guitar. Recorded at Atlantis Studio and Decibel Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.

Beautiful Summer
Test Press CD-R (This CD is watermarked and can be traced. P+C 2008 B-Unique Records Ltd) Silver cd-r with black text on disc face. Black and white inlay.
1 Beautiful Future 5:06
2 Can't Go Back 3:43
3 Uptown 4:50
4 The Glory Of Love 3:09
5 Suicide Bomb 5:50
6 Zombie Man 3:35
7 Beautiful Summer 4:39
8 I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) 4:35
9 Over & Over 4:31
10 Viva! 3:34 * later re-titled 'Necro Hex Blues'

CD

Notes:
Zombie Man sounds like Ringo Starr's Back Off Boogaloo.
Beautiful Future came out on the same day as CSS's new album, whose lead singer features on the track 'I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)'
From 'Extra Globo Online (published by Luciana Maria Sanches 28.05.2008 at 00:00 Updated on 12.12.2016 at 02:04), Translated by Lilian Stock Bonzi: Rio - Primal Scream leader, Bobby Gillespie, spoke to the British weekly NME about the participation of the Brazilian group's singer "Cansei de ser Sexy", Luisa Lovefoxxx in one of the songs of the band's new album. Gillespie said the partnership took place in São Paulo. Primal Scream's leader came up with the idea to invite Lovefoxxx after watching a CSS show. "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" - Gillespie explained. The music was described as a mixture of electronics with a psychedelic vibration, which Gillespie said "sounds damn good" Lovefoxxx recorded the track in late 2007 and the song will be on Primal Scream's next album, due out this year. Beautiful Future is released on the same day as CSS's new album, 21 July 2008. Lovefoxxx, lead singer of Cansei de Ser Sexy, participates in the first track, "I Love to Hurt (You Love to Be Hurt)". The first single from the album, however, will be "Can't Go Back". Other track titles released are "Zombie Man" and "Uptown".

22 July 2008 - Zane Lowe Session, BBC Radio 1, BBC Studios, London * Broadcast: 23 & 24 July 2008
Can't Go Back / Uptown / Suicide Bomb
Notes:
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 DAB & FM
Bootleg: DAB (DVB-T (192kbps / 48Khz) > Nebula DigiTV > Hard Disk MP2) - Can't Go Back / Uptown / Suicide Bomb

26 July 2008 - Fuji Rock Festival, Naeba, Japan
Can't Go Back / Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n Roll) / Miss Lucifer / Jailbird / Beautiful Future / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Suicide Bomb / Love To Hurt (Love To Be Hurt) (featuring. Lovefoxx (CSS)) / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Rocks / Country Girl / Movin' On Up
Notes: Lovefoxx from CSS guested on Love To Hurt.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Naeba Go Back (Made In Japan. Keep Your Music Records. Pro-CD-R) 2 CD-R - Can't Go Back / Dolls / Miss Lucifer / Jailbird / Beautiful Future / Losing More / Suicide Bomb / Love To Hurt (Love To Be Hurt) (featuring. Lovefoxx (CSS)) / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Rocks / Country Girl / Movin' On Up

27 July 2008 - Fuji Rock Festival, Naeba, Japan
Accelerator / Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n Roll) / Jailbird / Miss Lucifer / Beautiful Future / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Kill All Hippies / Suicide Bomb / I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) (featuring. Lovefoxx (CSS)) / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Country Girl
encore: Loaded / Can't Go Back / Rocks
Notes: Lovefoxx from CSS guested on Love To Hurt.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Beautiful Live Naeba (Label: Keep Your Music Records. Cat. No. KYM-004/KYM-005. Barcode: 075142004239. Limited Edition up to 5,000 my copy was number 3600. Made In Japan August 2008, Disc notes: Not For Sale. Promotionaly Copy Only. Compact Disc Recordable,) 2 Pro-CD-R - Disc 1 - Accelerator / Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n Roll) / Jailbird / Miss Lucifer / Beautiful Future / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Kill All Hippies / Suicide Bomb / I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes - Disc 2 - Movin' On Up / Country Girl / encore: Loaded / Can't Go Back / Rocks

Unconfirmed - Back To Beautiful Land
Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / When The Bomb Drops / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Beautiful Summer / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks
encore: Uptown / Necro Hex (with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) / Country Girl / Accelerator
Bootleg: Back To Beautiful Land (Record Label: Moon Callf Disc. Cat. No.: MCD-013. Barcode: 638812718624. Pro-2 CD-R) - 2CD-R - Disc 1 - Opening / Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally / Jailbird / When The Bomb Drops / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Beautiful Summer / Deep Hit / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks
encore: Uptown / Necro Hex (with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) / Country Girl / Accelerator
Disc 2 - Movin' On Up / Rocks / encore: Uptown / Necro Hex - Josh Homme (with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) / Country Girl / Accelerator

September 2008 - Uptown U.K Release Date
Vinyl
Download

04 October 2008 - Pepsi Vena Music Festival, Lodz, Poland
Can't Go Back / Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n Roll) / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / Beautiful Future / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Beautiful Summer / Suicide Bomb / City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks / Uptown / Country Girl / Accelerator
Broadcast: FM
Bootleg: CDR () FM Recording

06 October 2008 - Berlin, Germany
Can't Go Back / Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n Roll) / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / Beautiful Future / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Beautiful Summer / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks
encore: Uptown / Country Girl / Accelerator
Bootleg: Audience Recording

2008 - Mani goes fishing in Italy during Primal Scream's tour
Notes: 'We sent one of the roadies out to get some gear,' he says. 'Myself and Throb had a go and I think I pulled out about a five-and-a-half, six-pound common carp.'

2008 - Danebridge Fisheries, Macclesfield.
Notes: Mani goes fishing. Mani is filmed for a short online video blog and he is photographed for the media too. Initial photo session by A P Sturrock.
Broadcast: YouTube
09 November 2008 Sunday 00.01 GMT - The Observer, Guardian, Sarah Boden, Carl Wilkinson and Gareth Grundy article:
Primal Scream. It sure beats working. What do pop stars get up to when they're off duty? Try metal detecting, collecting vintage porn and catching trout. Mani - fishing. The Primal Scream bassist has witnessed all kinds of things while sitting patiently by the riverbank, waiting for the fish to bite. Out in the wilds, he has observed otter, kingfishers, and other critters he deems 'good for the soul'. On the canals around his native Manchester, where he first picked up a rod as a boy, the 45-year-old has seen things that would make Bill Oddie blush. 'People shagging in bushes,' he cackles. 'Smackheads on the mooch at night, looking to rob houses.'
Such a tranquil activity might seem at odds with Gary 'Mani' Mounfield's reputation as a committed hedonist, and the former Stone Rose admits that his bandmates always used to 'look at you like you were a bit odd'. Since joining Primal Scream, though, he's found a kindred spirit in guitarist Robert 'Throb' Young, the pair making an amusing appearance on Scottish TV show Trout 'n' About in 2004, and even finding time to catch carp on a recent tour of Italy. 'We sent one of the roadies out to get some gear,' he says. 'Myself and Throb had a go and I think I pulled out about a five-and-a-half, six-pound common carp.' Mani's heftiest ever catch is an eight-pound pike but the 'humble trout' remains his preferred choice of prey: 'You can't beat stalkin' 'em, catchin' 'em, killin' 'em, preparin' 'em and eatin' em. It's the business, man.'

16 November 2008 - Mani's 46th birthday

NME Rock'N'Roll Riot Tour
20 November 2008 Thursday - Academy, Oxford
Kill All Hippies / Dolls / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally / Jailbird / Rise / Beautiful Future / Uptown / Deep Hit / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks
encore: Higher Than The Sun / Necro Hex (Josh Home) / Country Girl / Accelerator
Bootleg: Audience Recording

21 November 2008 Friday - University, Cardiff
23 November 2008 Sunday - Academy, Bristol
24 November 2008 Monday - Guildhall, Southampton

25 November 2008 Tuesday - Hexagon, Reading
Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / Burning Wheel / Beautiful Future / Uptown / Deep Hit Of The Morning Sun / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin On Up
encore: Damaged / Necro Hex / Country Girl / Accelerator
Bootleg: Audience Recording

27 November 2008 Thursday - Rock City, Nottingham

28 November 2008 Friday - Hammersmith Apollo, Queen Caroline Street, London * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £25.00
Kill All Hippies / Accelerator / Jailbird / Rocks / Country Girl / Exterminator / Shoot Speed - Kill Light / Swatstika Eyes
Notes: NME Rock N' Roll Riot Tour. Kevin Shields guests and plays guitar.

30 November 2008 Sunday - UEA, Norwich * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: NME Rock N' Roll Riot Tour

December 2008 - Mani Interview with channelbee.com
Notes: During the interview he mentions about a roses reunion “Me, John and Reni are up for doing it and Ian just needs some working on”

01 December 2008 Monday - Academy, Sheffield
02 December 2008 Tuesday - Dome, Brighton
04 December 2008 Thursday - Academy, Birmingham
05 December 2008 Friday - Corn Exchange, Cambridge
08 December 2008 Monday - Academy, Leeds
09 December 2008 Tuesday - Academy, Newcastle

11 December 2008 Thursday - Apollo, Manchester
Notes: Sold Out Show.

12 December 2008 Friday - Apollo, Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: Additional date due to popular demand.

13 December 2008 Saturday - SECC, Glasgow, Scotland
Notes: Last date of the NME Rock'N'Roll Riot Tour.

DJ Mani - December 2008 - Ocean Colour Scene - Manchester
Notes: DJ set for Ocean Colour Scene at their December 2008 Manchester gig.

2009

2009 - Primal Scream appear on the Various Artists Compilation - Park Lane Archives
FREUDCD090 Jungle Records. Made In Scotland.
Velocity Girl (Alt. Mix) - Written by Bobby Gillespie. Produced by Bobby Patterson. Recorded at Park Lane Studio (Opposite Queens Park), 974 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HA.
Velocity Girl (Alt 7" Mix Version) aka (Alt. Mix)
Notes: Exclusive and unreleased tracks from Glasgow's Top Recording Studio.

06 January 2009 - Ron Asheton passes away
Notes: Former Stooges guitarist dies aged 60 of a suspected heart attack. Ron was discovered by police in his living room of his Michigan home after his personal assistant raised the alarm. Ron's P.A. contacted the authorities when she couldn't make contact with him. The police believe Ron had suffered a heart attack a few days prior to the call.
Scott Asheton, who drums in The Stooges, and his sister Kathy released the following statement:“We would like to thank everyone for the tremendous outpouring of sympathy and support that we have received. The knowledge that Ron‘s kindness and music touched so many people around the world has been a great comfort to us at this very difficult time. “We loved our big brother very much and we will miss him deeply. Our lives will never be the same. His spirit will continue through a foundation we plan to set up in his name. Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughts.”
From 07 January 2009 - NME Magazine: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie pays tribute to The Stooges’ Ron Asheton. 'He's one of the greats', declares the singer. Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie has paid tribute to The Stooges‘ guitarist Ron Asheton, who was found dead yesterday (January 6).
Asheton was found after dying of a suspected heart attack. He was aged 60.
Gillespie told NME.COM that he believed Asheton had secured his place in musical history. “I just loved The Stooges, he said. “Ron‘s was a totally original style: really fucking sexy and wild and reckless and free.
“He was a free rock ‘n’ roll guitarist. He made up his own style – there’s nobody else who sounded llike Ron Asheton. As soon as you hear the first chords of any Stooges song you knew it was him playing.
“He had killer riffs. ‘No Fun’, ‘Down On The Street’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ – all those songs you identify with a guitar riff even before Iggy [Pop] starts singing. He’s one of the greats, I think.” Asheton‘s bandmates, paid tribute to him yesterday, with Pop describing the late guitarist as “my best friend”.

Japan Tour 2009
28 January 2009 Wednesday - Zepp, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00, Show: 19:00 *
Notes: Tickets went on sale 29 November 2008 at 10am. The bootleg recording is so good it could be confused with a broadcast recording. T
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Back To Beautiful Land (2 CD-R with printed text)

29 January 2009 Thursday - Zepp, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00, Show: 19:00 *
Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / When The Bomb Drops / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Beautiful Summer / Deep Hit Morning Sun / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks
encore: Uptown / Necro Hex Blues / Country Girl / Accelerator
Notes: Tickets went on sale 29 November 2008 at 10am.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Primal Zepp - 2 CD-R - CD1 - Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / When The Bomb Drops / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Beautiful Summer / Deep Hit Morning Sun / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City - CD2 - Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin' On Up / Rocks / encore: Uptown / Necro Hex Blues / Country Girl / Accelerator

30 January 2009 Friday - Zepp, Nagoya, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00, Show: 19:00 *
Notes: Tickets went on sale 29 November 2008 at 10am.
01 February 2009 Sunday - Zepp, Osaka, Japan * Doors Open: 17:00, Show: 18:00 *
Notes: Final date of the Japan Tour 2009. Tickets went on sale 29 November 2008 at 10am.

14 March 2009 - MX Beat Sound Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Kill All Hippies / Can`t Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Country Girl / Jail Bird / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Deep Hit Morning Sun / Xtrmntr / Suicide Bomb / City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin On Up / Rocks / Accelerator
Bootleg: Audience Recording - The MX Beat - CD-R - Kill All Hippies / Can`t Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Country Girl / Jail Bird / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Deep Hit Morning Sun / Xtrmntr / Suicide Bomb / City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin On Up / Rocks / Accelerator (incomplete)
Bootleg: Audience Recording (Matrix, Includes the above audience recording but with complete recordings of Accelerator & extended intro to Kill All Hippies. These two tracks have been ripped from amateur Youtube videos.)

17 March 2009 Tuesday - The Fillmore, 1805 Geary, San Francisco, U.S.A. * Support Act(s): Kuroma, Brian Jonestown Massacre

18-22 March 2009 - South By South West Festival, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

24 March 2009 - Toronto, Canada
Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / When The Bomb Drops / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Deep Hit Morning Sun / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City /
Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Movin' On Up
encore: Damaged Necro Hex Blues / Rocks / Accelerator
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 2 CD-R - CD1 Kill All Hippies / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar / Jailbird / When The Bomb Drops / Beautiful Future / Higher Than The Sun / Deep Hit Morning Sun / Exterminator / Suicide Bomb / Sick City - CD2 - Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Movin' On Up / encore: Damaged Necro Hex Blues / Rocks / Accelerator

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes
Martin Duffy
Mani
Darrin Mooney
Barrie Cadogan

11 July 2009 - Bilbao, Spain
Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Country Girl / Jailbird / Beautiful Future / Kill All Hippies / Damaged / Xtrmntr / Suicide Bomb / Sick City / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Movin On Up / Rocks / Accelerator
Broadcast: TV
Video Bootleg: TV Broadcast -
Bootleg: TV Broadcast -

DJ Mani - 09 October 2009 - Club Colors, Bang The Drum Night, Japan
DJ Mani - 10 October 2009 - Club Karma, Little Bitch Night, Japan
DJ Mani - 11 October 2009 - The Unit, Madchester Night, Tokyo, Japan

November 2009 - I Want You / RTX U.K Release Date
Vinyl
Download
Primal Scream - I Want You (The Troggs cover)
RTX
Notes: Record Store Day? Shared single release with RTX.

November 2009 - Live On Abbey Road Session, Abbey Road Studios, London

Primal Scream ? DJ Mani - 07 November 2009 - 'Planet Earth' Planeta Terra Festival, Brazil
From "www.terra.com.br", Published 06 October 2009 Osmar Portilho, 12:33pm, São Paulo. Translated by Lilian Stock Bonzi: Primal Scream wants crazy fans on "Planeta Terra Festival"
Gary "Mani" Mounfield is one of those living legends of English rock. With his typical Manchester accent, Primal Scream bass player, who has also played with The Stone Roses, spoke to Terra about the show he will be doing in Brazil on November 7 at Planeta Terra Festival. Alongside Iggy Pop and Sonic Youth, the group promises a "typical rock show".
"We promised to play rock loud and clear. I want the fans to let go and get crazy to have fun," he said. A fan of Brazilian music, Mani recorded alongside Primal Scream with Lovefoxxx, lead singer of Cansei de Ser Sexy, on the band's last album, Beautiful Future (2008). "The CSS kids are great. They became our friends. They're brilliant. We are always happy to meet them again," he said.
Veterans of rock and a great influence for many generations, Primal Scream has recruited new names for collaborations, such as Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. However, with a few exceptions, Mani classifies the new rock as "boring". "I think working with different people makes us go into a place we don't know and forces us to learn more. Apart from Arctic Monkeys, I think the music is very boring," he says.
When it comes to the new bands, it is impossible not to talk about the controversy of illegal music downloading. At this point, Mani rages. "I sincerely hope they have cancer," said the bassist about who downloads music on the web. "Imagine if I worked in a butcher shop and cut meat all day. People couldn't just go in there and get the meat. That would be robbery. We spend a lot of time doing our job. We compose, we record, a lot of people work hard and people want it for free. Anyone who says otherwise is talking nonsense. It's killing the music," he said.
Terra: What do you expect from the show at Planeta Terra Festival? You're going to share the stage with Sonic Youth and Iggy Pop.
Mani: I'm sure it's going to be insane. Iggy Pop is an unbelievable guy and one of the heroes for our band. We played with him a few times and it will definitely be a typical rock show.
Terra: You return to Brazil now with the Beautiful Future Tour (2008). What should fans expect from the performance?
Mani: Usually at Primal Scream shows we do a raw and heavy rock. We don't hide anything. If the fans have been enjoying it, we'll also have a good performance. We promise to play rock loud and clear. I want the fans to let go and get crazy to have fun.
Terra: Have you talked about the setlist?
Mani: We already have an idea of what we're going to play. Let's mix some old songs with new ones, songs from all albums should appear. A week before the show we will meet to set right which repertoire we will play.
Terra: What do you know about Brazilian music? On the last album you recorded the track I Love To Hurt with Luísa Lovefoxxx, from Cansei de Ser Sexy.
Mani: The CSS kids are great. They became our friends. They're brilliant. We're always happy to meet them again. But in Brazil I'm also a fan of Sérgio Mendes. In addition to football, Brazilians make great songs.
Terra: As an Englishman, you must be a football fan too. Do you root for Manchester City or United?
Mani: I love football. Manchester United is my favorite team.
Terra: Do you like any Particular Brazilian player?
Mani: Well, obviously, I'm a fan of Anderson, who's playing for Manchester United.
Terra: Back to music, you played with CSS people, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John. How does it feel to play with this new generation? Do you think Primal Scream needs some change of scene?
Mani: I think working with different people makes us go into a place we don't know and forces us to learn more. We always like to collaborate and have collaborations with new people on the albums. It's a learning experience.
Terra: Have you written new songs for the next CD?
Mani: We've been on tour a long time. We took a few weeks off so we could be apart for a while. The conviviality is very large on the road. Maybe we'll get together in the next few weeks to think about the show there in Brazil.
Terra: You said you like working with younger people. What do you think of the new generation of rock?
Mani: You know, apart from Arctic Monkeys, I think the music is really boring. There's also the Eagles of Death Metal, they're brilliant. The rest is really very boring.
Terra: A lot of people nowadays don't even record CDs anymore and prefer to just release songs individually. Do you like this format?
Mani: I think the way music goes, CDs are turning to rubbish. It's all about doing a live show and no one else wants to record it. I'm a music fan and I've always enjoyed making records and buying well-made records. Listening to separate songs thrown in the air is rubbish.

16 November 2009 - Mani's 47th birthday

03 December 2009 Thursday - Guildhall, Gloucester/shire * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £20