2016
29 January 2016 Friday - The Guardian Radio Hour with Bobby Gillespie * Broadcast: 01 February 2016 Monday 15.16 GMT
Notes: Presented by Kate Hutchinson and produced by Alannah Chance. Recorded at the NTS Radio Station/Studios, Dalston, East London. The show available to hear online and, later, to download as an podcast (mp3).
Broadcast: 01 February 2016 Monday
From 01 February 2016 Monday 15.16 GMT - The Observer, Guardian: The frontman from Primal Scream hauls a bag of his favourite infidelity themed records down to the NTS studios for our latest live radio show. According to Bobby Gillespie, agony and ecstasy are at the heart of the best songwriting. Both are in abundance in this week’s show, featuring songs about heartbreak with a guilty conscience. We hear some of Bobby’s own personal favourites, a host of brilliant soul records including Ann Peebles, Luther Ingram and one of his own tracks with Primal Scream. He tells Kate Hutchinson about the need for more adult songwriting, saving the Sun Ra Arkestra in London and how he wrote his own ode to cheating....
What’s the missing link between Johnny Thunders, Can, Sun Ra Arkestra and Augustus Pablo? Arguably it’s Mr Bobby Gillespie, whose band Primal Scream absorbs his varied influences – from unhinged rock’n’roll and Krautrock to spiritual jazz and roots-reggae, often getting them into the studio, too.
Gillespie has gone from studying music folkore to creating it and his knowledge and passion for rock’n’roll remains unrivalled. Which is why we invited him to join us on The Guardian Radio Hour, our new series that tells lesser known stories from music history and lifts the lid on artists’ musical passions. Bobby dropped by the NTS studios in east London to chat with the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson on his chosen theme of “songs about cheating”. As you would expect his playlist was a roller-coaster of infidelity bangers that ran the gamut of ragged rock’n’roll, blues, soul and country from Gillespie’s record collection. Gillespie also talked about the Scream’s forthcoming (and 11th) studio album, Chaosmosis.

12 Feburary 2016 - BBC 6Music Festival, Main Room, Bristol
(Feel Like A) Demon Again / It's Alright, It's OK / Jailbird / Accelerator / Kill All Hippies / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Where The Light Gets In / Swastika Eyes / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Loaded / Country Girl / Movin' On Up / Rocks
Broadcast: BBC TV 6Music BBC TV 'Red Button' / BBC I-Player
Bootleg Video: 6Music BBC TV ()
Bootleg: TV/FM (Audio probably lifted Video Broadcast) CD-R

16 February 2016 Tuesday 19:15 - Front Row Session, BBC Radio 4
Notes: The podcast was available for over a year. Presenter John Wilson. Producer Jerome Weatherald.
"Bobby Gillespie discusses the band's new album Chaosmosis and why they have returned to 'immediate' pop songwriting."
Official: MP3 BBC Download

2016 - The Saturday Sessions, Dermot O'Leary Session, BBC Radio
Cold Turkey (John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band cover)
Notes:
Official: Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2016 - Cold Turkey (John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band cover)

06 March 2016 Sunday 17:26 - Primal Scream feature in The Independent (independent.co.uk), Kevin EG Perry Interview.
Notes: See Media for the article.

Chaosmosis
Unconfirmed Line Up:
Primal Scream is...
Andrew Innes
Martin Duffy
Darrin Mooney
Barrie Cadogan - Guitar
Simone Butler

March 2016 - Where The Light Gets In (featuring Sky Ferreira) U.K. Release Date
Where The Light Gets In (with Sky Ferreira) - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Bjorn Yttling.
Notes: Sky Ferreira singer, model, actress and more.
From 17 March 2016 - Kev Geoghegan's BBC article: The first single, Where the Light Gets In features electro-pop singer Sky Ferreira, while the album kicks off with the unashamedly retro Tripping on Your Love, a dance groove seemingly inspired by the Screamadelica era. "It sounded like a euphoric introduction to the album", explained Gillespie. "We just felt it was a really great start to the album, you hear that track and just go, 'Whoa here we go'." The song features backing vocals from the BBC's Sound of 2013 winners Haim, who, according to Gillespie, "bring the sunshine". "California pop, soulful harmony just like they do in the track 100% or Nothing, which is a blue-eyed, electronic soul song."
From May - June 2016 - Under The Radar Interview, 27 April 2016 by John Everhart: “We wouldn’t ask to work with Sky or HAIM unless we felt as though there was a connection,” he says. “We knew that we could make great music with those girls. We had a connection and friendship with HAIM, and we’d worked with Sky on her music and from that came the idea to sing on ‘Where the Light Gets In,’ and we just knew instinctively that it was gonna work.”...“With Sky, you can sense hurt in her voice, even as a pop artist,” says Gillespie. “I knew she could sing that part perfectly as the duet. I knew she could play that role and sing that song sincerely. That it would be real. And we were right. Her performance was fantastic.”

18 March 2016 - Chaosmosis U.K. Release Date
Ignition Records

Where The Light Gets In (with Sky Ferreira) - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Bjorn Yttling.

Mantra For A State Of Mind - Written by Mark Moore / Brenda Beale. Produced by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Bjorn Yttling.

Golden Rope (Lynchmob Remix) - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes. Remix by Brendan Lynch.

100% Or Nothing - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes. Haim (Este, Danielle, and Alana) on backing vocals.

Trippin’ on Your Love - Haim (Este, Danielle, and Alana) on backing vocals.

Notes: 11th Studio LP. Released on their First International imprint via independent label Ignition Records
From 17 March 2016 - Kev Geoghegan's BBC article: The band are about to release their 11th studio album Chaosmosis on their own First International imprint via independent label Ignition Records. But the reality is that a huge number of fans will end up streaming the album on services like Apple, Deezer or Rdio, something which concerns Gillespie.
"A guy here at the record company got me a Spotify account for free because I did a playlist for them. "When the Savages album came out and I didn't have a chance to get to the record store, I listened to the first half on there and then a couple of weeks later, I went and bought the album. "But the digital thing has destroyed music."
Gillespie says his teenage son "streams [music] but he also watches YouTube". "He loves music but he wouldn't buy it. It's just the culture they were born into.
"You can't turn it back but as an artist, I have to try and express myself and the best way to do that is to make albums."
Primal Scream may yet find support from the new model for music, but Gillespie is not optimistic. "I have zero expectations for the music industry," he said. "[Labels] beholden to shareholders... only invest in Ellie Goulding or puppet girl singers or boybands they know they can make a killing on. "They'll never invest in art, they're not artistically driven people."
He said he does not earn money "from my hard work and my art anymore". "It's impossible to earn a living from making records unless you're Adele. "At the level we're at and a lot of other people are at, you've just got to get out and play lots of gigs, but it means the gig circuit is choc-a-block." "It's like the rest of society - there's a huge gap between the 1% and everybody else," said Gillespie. "Whether it's elite families or elite acts who play the stadiums of the world, across culture there's a huge gap between the super-rich and everyone else and there's no reason why music is any different.
"In the 90s and early 2000s, we could sell hundreds of thousands of art rock albums, but it's not like that anymore."
"We don't really care what anybody expects, we are just trying to satisfy ourselves, we're making good art I think and putting good stuff into the world.
"We're commercial songwriters, Movin' on Up was a commercial song, Come Together was, Rocks was written as a commercial rock song, we have got that side. "It's not like a pressure but to fund the band, to fund this art project, you need commercial success. "We don't have a massive label giving us money anymore, so commercial success would be great because it keeps thing going."
From May - June 2016 - Under The Radar Interview, 27 April 2016 by John Everhart: “We wouldn’t ask to work with Sky or HAIM unless we felt as though there was a connection,” he says. “We knew that we could make great music with those girls. We had a connection and friendship with HAIM, and we’d worked with Sky on her music and from that came the idea to sing on ‘Where the Light Gets In,’ and we just knew instinctively that it was gonna work.”...On “Trippin’ on Your Love” and “100% or Nothing,” the Haim sisters (Este, Danielle, and Alana) lend the tracks a subtle blue-eyed soul component that doesn’t overwhelm the trademark Primal Scream beats and melodic signifiers. “Well, if we were movie producers, you’d have to choose the right actor for the role. And that’s kind of what we’re doing here,” explains Gillespie. “We’re not trying to jump on anyone’s bandwagon for their fame or trying to connect with young people. We’re conscious artists and musicians and we’re recognizing other souls we can make music with. I’m saying it as a production choice. We want to direct the sound and image of our songs as a production choice and making a beautiful record. And the Haim sisters singing on ‘100% or Nothing’ is the California sunshine gospel pop sound, and they’re the best at that.”

22 March 2016 - Lauren Laverne, Live Room, BBC Radio Session
Where The Light Gets In / I Can Change
Notes: Bobby was interviewed during the session.
Broadcast:
Bootleg: DAB / Webstream - (Interview) / Where The Light Gets In / (Interview) / I Can Change / (Outro)

24 March 2016 18.01 GMT Thursday - The Observer, Guardian Dave Simpson Interview
Notes: See Media for the interview.

29 March 2016 - Beach Ballroom
Notes:
From 22 March 2016 - Lauren Laverne BBC Session Interview, Bobby said: 'We played there in 1989 and we had Teenage Fanclub bobbing for us...but there about 200 people there. It's before they'd even made a record. Before they'd even released A Catholic Education on Fire Records. And Er at that point I remember telling Alan McGee you've got to sign this band, they're really amazing they're like a kinda Neil Young zoomer era jamming band. And he was...he never signed them but he did two years later...I tried to get him to sign. I asked him I said to him you should sign this band they're great, and it's before even Fire Records had discovered them. Because the first album was on Fire Records. And er he never listened. (laughs) He was flying around, somewhere high in a friendly sky y'know, at that point, so, erm a couple of years later he, Norman came to me. I went to see them play in ?Brain? and he said we'd love to sign with McGee and so I made the call and McGee said he'd love to sign them. So he signed them to Creation. And then Dave Barker from Fire left Fire and then sort of came over to work with Fanclub on Creation y'know...'

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Darrin Mooney - Drums
Simone Butler - Bass
Hannah Marsden - Backing Vocals
30 March 2016 - ABC, 300 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £27.50
(Incomplete set) 100% Or Nothing / When the Blackout Meets the Fallout / Trippin’ on Your Love / Accelerator / Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks / I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have / Loaded / Movin’ on Up
Notes: Hannah Marsden guests on vocal on stage. Media Photographs by Roberto Ricciuti, featured in The Guardian.
From 31 March 2016 Thursday 12.52BST - The Observer, Guardian, Malcolm Jack Review: Primal Scream review – Bobby G's barmy army earn Glasgow kiss - ABC, Glasgow: Primal Scream’s lineup has shrunk of late, but nothing can diminish still-youthful Bobby Gillespie’s presence in front of an ecstatic home crowd.
Be it extreme noise, hard drugs or harsh words, Primal Scream don’t tend to do things by halves. Which makes the milder incarnation of the Glasgow-founded band that struts on tonight in support of their new album, the minty, synth-pop-flavoured Chaosmosis, somewhat unexpected.
Andrew Innes is now the lone guitarist in a lineup that once had three. Bassist Simone Butler and vocalist Hannah Marsden flank stubbornly wiry, youthful frontman Bobby Gillespie instead, and threaten to shade his louche voice as they harmonise with him on opening numbers 100% Or Nothing...
Personnel switches haven’t always happened voluntarily to Primal Scream throughout 34 years of keeping on keeping on. Bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield left to rejoin the Stone Roses in 2011, while guitarist Robert “Throb” Young, who quit in 2008, died in 2014 after failing to conquer his addictions. But change has more often proved an elixir to a band who have had many lives, from C86 janglers to acid house hedonists to politico electro-rock noiseniks. Considering their infamous excesses of the past – Gillespie has gotten clean and sober in the past few years – they can be happy to have any life left in them at all.
Only four songs from Chaosmosis feature, including the persuasive but undoubtedly past glories reheating of When the Blackout Meets the Fallout and Trippin’ on Your Love. As it approaches 17 years old, 2000’s XTRMNTR is equally well represented. Even in versions sapped of their original venom, Accelerator and Swastika Eyes stake a strong case for this band’s other classic album alongside 1991’s Screamadelica. When Primal Scream start digging out the greatest hits, you could be watching Gillespie backed by a bunch of cub scouts and they’d still wield one of the most high-energy live sets in rock’n’roll. Surprise 2006 hit Country Girl has done much to refresh the band’s fanbase over the last decade; played consecutively with that other unfeasibly sleazy drivetime radio staple Rocks, it heralds the most ecstatically received phase of the set. Enough to merit a traditional Glaswegian chant of “here we fucking go”, which morphs into the more personalised salute of “Bobby fucking G”, forcing even this most poker-faced of performers to crack a warm smile. A swaying singalong to the bluesy I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have winds back to 1989, priming a euphoric finish of Loaded and Movin’ on Up. As the Screamadelica logo flashes on the screen behind them, it’s clear that the only type of trips Gillespie and co are indulging in these days are of the nostalgia kind – but they’re well earned.

01 April 2016 - Session, London
Where The Light Gets In / I Can Change
Notes: April Fools Session included an interview with the band.
Broadcast:
Bootleg: Interview / Where The Light Gets In / Interview / Interview / I Can Change / Outro

01 April 2016 - London
Movin On Up / Where The Light Gets In / It's Alright, It's OK / Jailbird / Accelerator / Where The Blackout Meets The Fallout / Kill All Hippies / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Golden Rope / Trippin’ On Your Love / Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Rocks / 100% Or Nothing / Loaded / Come Together
Notes: April Fools Day!
Bootleg: Audience Recording

02 April 2016 - Manchester

April 2016 - Mantra For A State Of Mind (Record Store Day) U.K. Release Date
12inch Vinyl
Mantra For A State Of Mind - Written by Mark Moore / Brenda Beale. Produced by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Bjorn Yttling.

May - June 2016 - Under The Radar Interview, 27 April 2016 by John Everhart
Notes: See Media for the article.

02 June 2016 Thursday - Caribana Festival, Big Stage, Switzerland
Movin On Up / Where The Light Gets In / Jailbird / Accelerator
Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Trippin’ On Your Love / 100% Or Nothing (abandoned)
Notes: Bobby Gillespie was rushed to hospital after falling off stage in the middle of the concert. The singer was performing 100% or Nothing when he suddenly fell seven-foot off the stage. Shocked fans looked on as he was taken away on a stretcher to hospital. 53-years-young, Bobby, is believed to have suffered "minor" back injuries after he climbed on top of a speaker stack and jumped into the crowd mid-way through their performance.
Bobby was advised by doctors to take eight weeks off to recover, forcing the band to cancel a number of dates.
According to NME magazine, Bobby was carried off on a stretcher and the festival's presenter released a brief statement assuring fans they were looking after the rocker. The statement said: "We are taking good care of Bobby." Several fans have taken to Twitter to express their concern about the 'Where The Light Gets In' hitmaker.
03 June 2016 1:10pm Primal Scream @ScreamOfficial tweeted: Thanks everyone who has asked about Bobby, we're waiting for more news but hoping to be back on the road as soon as we get the all clear X
08 May 2021 09.30 BST Saturday - The Observer, Guardian - The Q&A, Life and style Bobby Gillespie Interview by Rosanna Greenstreet: What is the closest you’ve come to death? In 2016, I fell off stage in Switzerland and broke my back in four places.
Broadcast: FM Broadcast / Webcast
Bootleg: Webstream - Webcast ()

*Cancelled* 17 June 2016 - Azkena Rock Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016). A statement on their Twitter account read: "Primal Scream have been forced to cancel several European and UK shows this summer following Bobby Gillespie's accident last Thursday night at the Caribana festival, Switzerland. "Bobby has been instructed to rest for a minimum of eight weeks." The Daily Mirror reports that Bobby has been ordered to remain flat on his back while he recovers from the fall.

*Cancelled* 2016 - Italy
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016).
*Cancelled* 2016 - Italy
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016).
*Cancelled* 2016 - Italy
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016).

*Cancelled* 24 June Saturday 2016 - Sea Sessions in Bundoran, Ireland
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016). Ash stepped up and headlined the show instead. Primal Scream made a statement saying they would play the 2017 Festival slot instead.

*Cancelled* 2016 - Secret Garden Party
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016).

*Cancelled* 15 July 2016 - The Beat-Herder Festival, Sawley, Lancashire
Notes: Cancelled due to Bobby's injury (see 02 June 2016).

11 August 2016 Thursday - Kelvingrove Bandstand, * Doors Open: 18:30 * Ticket Price: £37.50

September 2016 - 100% Or Nothing U.K. Release Date
100% Or Nothing - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes. Haim on backing vocals.

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Martin Duffy - Keyboards
Darrin Mooney - Drums
Barrie Cadogan - Guitar
Simone Butler - Bass
Hannah Marsden - Vocals

17 September 2016 Saturday - On Roundhay Festival, Roundhay Park, Leeds, LS8 2EP * Doors Open: 13:00, Primal Scream 18:45-20:15, James 21:00-22:30 * Ticket Price: £45.00 * Supporting: James *
Movin' On Up / Where the Light Gets In / Jailbird / Accelerator / Damaged / Higher Than The Sun / Trippin’ on Your Love / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks / Come Together
Notes: Primal Scream were second to headliners James. Wolf Alice, Max Jury & The Haggis Horns also played.
Bootleg: Audience Recording

24 September 2016 - Brit Project, The Victoria Warehouse, Old Trafford, Manchester
? Day * Support Act(s): Badly Drawn Boy (AKA Damon Gough), Dodgy, Reverend and The Makers, The Watchmakers, Glass Caves, Feed The Kid, Sitting Pretty
(Incomplete) Moving On Up / Loaded / Come Together / Higher Than The Sun / Rocks / Country Girl
Notes: Paul Husband took photos for the media, photos were used on louderthanwar.com. "Brit Project take place over the weekend with a mix of legendary artists and breakthrough bands sharing two stages in one of Manchester’s most intriguing venues."
From 28 September 2016 louderthanwar.com, michaelhalpin1 Michael Halpin review: The Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, 24th September 2016.
Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse saw the first Brit Project take place over the weekend with a mix of legendary artists and breakthrough bands sharing two stages in one of Manchester’s most intriguing venues. Louder Than War’s Michael Halpin was there to tell us all about it. Photos by Paul Husband
The likes of Primal Scream, Black Grape, Badly Drawn Boy and Dodgy lined-up alongside The Watchmakers, Glass Caves, Feed The Kid and Sitting Pretty for this unique live music event. Of the unsigned acts, The Watchmakers held their own most self-assuredly alongside the likes of Reverend and The Makers and Dodgy, the latter churning out their back catalogue of crowd pleasing hits. Manchester’s own Badly Drawn Boy (AKA Damon Gough) followed Dodgy onstage, cutting a lone figure – just one man and his guitar. The charismatic individual that he is however managed to charm the audience throughout his set. ‘Everybody’s Stalking’, ‘The Shining’, ‘Disillusion’ and ‘Once Around The Block’ sounded delightful when stripped down to their bare bones, as did a medley of ‘People Get Ready/Sexual Healing and Mohammed Ali’ before Gough closed his set with a beautiful cover of Black’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’.
Headliners Primal Scream played a greatest-hits-heavy set which included ‘Moving On Up’, ‘Loaded’, ‘Come Together’, ‘Higher Than The Sun’, ‘Rocks’ and ‘Country Girl’ but numbers from their questionable new album ‘Chaosmosis’ meant that this was not vintage Primal Scream and the evening was stolen by the recently reformed Black Grape.
Opening with their 1995 top ten hit ‘In The Name Of The Father’, Black Grape brought the Victoria Warehouse to life and the band, albeit not the original members, sounded far better than they ever did in the 90s. There were grins aplenty onstage and Shaun Ryder appeared to be genuinely enjoying himself. Possibly, for the first time in years. ‘Tramazi Parti’ followed ‘In The Name Of The Father’ and it was almost too difficult to think about writing a review when all I really wanted to do was throw a few Bez shapes like I did in the days when I was a touch more agile! ‘Reverend Black Grape’ appeared too early in the set but was as rabble-rousing in 2016 as it was over twenty years ago. Ryder kicked into an impromptu ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ style “woo-woo” but the real excitement came from Kermit who certainly seems to have a good set of vocal pipes on him. Again, far better than what can be recalled from the mid-90s. The groove on ‘A Big Day In The North’ and ‘Shake Well Before Opening’ was immense and the 2016 version of Black Grape is a water tight, groovy-as-fuck band who sailed through tonight’s set with the confidence of a well oiled machine. That confidence spilled into ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ as it slipped into ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’ briefly before an extended ‘Little Bob’ ended the set triumphantly. Primal Scream may have been the headliners tonight but the evening definitely belonged to Black Grape.

21 November 2016 Monday - Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

22 November 2016 Tuesday - Concert Hall, Motherwell, Scotland * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

23 November 2016 Wednesday - Ironworks, Inverness, Scotland * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

25 November 2016 Friday - Grand Hall, Kilmarnock, Scotland * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

26 November 2016 Saturday - Alhambra Theatrem 33 Canmore St., Dunfermline, Scotland * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £27.50 * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
Movin' On Up / Where The Light Gets In / Jailbird / Accelerator / (Feeling Like A) Demon Again / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Higher Than The Sun / Trippin' On Your Love / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Rocks / Come Together / Country Girl
Bootleg: Audience Recording

27 November 2016 Sunday - Empire Theatre, Liverpool * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

30 November 2016 - Dublin
Movin' On Up / Where The Light Gets In / Jailbird / Accelerator / (Feeling Like A) Demon Again / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Higher Than The Sun / Trippin' On Your Love / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Rocks / Come Together
encore: Kill All Hippies / Country Girl
Bootleg: Audience Recording

03 December 2016 Saturday - Keele University, Stone * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
Notes: Bobby would later record a track with Bo Ningen, see 01 June 2020.
04 December 2016 Sunday - Institute, Birmingham * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
05 December 2016 Monday - Junction, Cambridge * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
Notes: Sold Out Show.

07 December 2016 Wednesday - Academy, Bristol * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
? 2016 Jehnny Beth guests on Some Velvet Morning (Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra cover) at Bristol Downs.

08 December 2016 Thursday - Academy, Oxford * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

10 December 2016 Saturday - The Plug, Sheffield * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
Accelerator / Where The Light Gets In / Jailbird / Golden Rope / (Feeling Like A) Demon Again / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Higher Than The Sun / Trippin' On Your Love / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl
encore: Come Together / Movin' On Up / Rocks
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Accelerator / Where The Light Gets In / Jailbird / Golden Rope / (Feeling Like A) Demon Again / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Higher Than The Sun / Trippin' On Your Love / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / encore: Come Together / Movin' On Up / Rocks (cuts out and cuts back in)

11 December 2016 Sunday - Rock City, Nottingham * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

13 December 2016 Tuesday - Pyramids Plaza, Portsmouth * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £26.50 * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

14 December 2016 Wednesday - Dome, Brighton * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen

15 December 2016 Thursday - Academy, Brixton, London * * * Support Act(s): Bo Ningen
(incomplete) Movin’ On Up / Where The Lights Get In / (Feeling like) A Demon Again / Golden Rope / 100% or Nothing / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Swastika Eyes / Country Girl / Come Together / Rocks /
Notes: 16 December 2016 Friday 18:53 - independent.co.uk Review by Kashmira Gander: Primal Scream, Brixton Academy, gig review: Jagger-esque swagger and gospel-style euphoria. The Glaswegian band storm through a set balancing old and new . Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie is a man of few words - and most of his short sentences are punctuated with 'baby' - but that doesn’t matter a jot to the eager crowd at Brixton academy tonight.
Sure, the other members are present and correct but the audience - a majority of thirty and forty-somethings with a handful of younger followers - are under his spell from the second he strides out in his red bootleg suit until the end. Often his stare and Jagger-esque swagger are enough to tease out their screams. And it's is his face that's on the cover of their latest synth-pop-inspired album Chaosmosis, after all.
The band start off as they hope to go on with Movin’ On Up. Gillespie asking if they’re “ready to testify” immediately sends the audience into gospel-style euphoria: hands waving in the air and singing along word-for-word.
Next is Where The Lights Get In, a duet with an absent Sky Ferreira from their latest album. The lights dim to red and fluorescent light bars twitch in the background to signal that the band has entered electropop territory. This, like other Chaosmosis offerings (Feeling like) A Demon Again, Golden Rope and 100% or Nothing don’t quite hold crowd like the classic, rockier tracks or Hacienda-era dancier numbers. Still, the devoted fans are more than happy to dance along as they wait patiently for the bigger hits.
And when they do come, Primal Scream are stunning. After thirty years, their solid back-catalogue still sparkles and seem no less of a pleasure for the band to perform. Throbbing tracks like 'Shoot Speed / Kill Light' and 'Swastika Eyes' for 2000’s XTRMNTR are a reminder of when the band hit the synth-rock sweet spot in the early noughties. This combination of dance and rock is after all what set them apart so many decades ago. Seeing the shift in the audience’s reaction and they jump, arms raised, Gillespie becomes playful, shakes his maracas during the former song and sparking a ripple of arms through the crowd before blowing a kiss.
From that moment, it’s back-to-back hits and nineties nostalgia - save for 2006’s anomalous Country Girl which is followed by Come to Together, a track which feels loaded with new poignancy at the end of 2016 and further unites the voices of the crowd. The encore 'Rocks Off' keeps them jumping from front to back. Relishing the attention, Gillespie lingers on-stage after the other members file off and “screams London, you’re beautiful!” to the adoring fans. When they ditch the new songs they are at their best, and prove why they have endured. No need for twinkly neon lights to coax the crowd’s attention. No theatrics, or chit-chat. Just the band bashing out hit after hit - exactly, it seems, how the truly satisfied crowd want them to.

2017
April 2017 - Mixomatosis E.P. (Record Store Day Release) U.K. Release Date

2017 - "Utopian Ashes" Demos, Studios, Soho, London
Notes: Bobby and Andrew begin demos for new material. After a few sessions, Andrew said it would be cool to record them as duets with Jehnny Beth, Savages singer.
July 2021 - Uncut Magazine/Website, 20 May 2021 - “Where does this rage come from, this suspicious nature , this anger , this cynicism ?”: Was Utopian Ashes always going to be a Bobby Gillespie, Jehnny Beth album and not a Primal Scream album?
To begin with, we weren’t sure what it was going to be. Andrew Innes and I began to demo songs in a little studio we had in Soho through, I think, 2017, early 2018. It was Andrew Innes’ idea to make this music with Jehnny. But as I worked more on the songs at home and began writing lyrics and working on song structures, then demoing them with Andrew, it became apparent to me it should be a duets record.
What’s the appeal of a duets record? I’ve always had an interest in the dynamic of a male and a female singing together. It is a great way of telling human stories, the male and the female perspective. It gives you a lot wider narrative scope. When we first met Jehnny, it became apparent that her voice and my voice really sounded like they belonged together. When we were recording the album, Jehnny said to me, “What is this? Is this a Bobby solo, is it Primal Scream?” I said, “I think it’s Bobby and Jehnny record and that’s how we should present it.”

24 June 2017 Saturday - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland * Ticket Price: £64.90 * * Doors Open: 17:00 * Supporting: The Stone Roses
Movin' On Up
Notes: Tickets Went On Sale Friday 30 September 2016 at 9:30am. Steve Mason is on stage first. This was the last Stone Roses show from the reformation tour. Bobby wore bright red flares and a flowery top.

15 July 2017 - acieloaperto Festival 2017, Villa Torlonia, San Mauro Pascoli (Forlì-Cesena), Italy
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) / Jailbird / Dolls (Sweet Rock And Roll) / It's Alright, It's OK / (Feeling Like A) Demon Again / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Encore: Kill All Hippies / Come Together
Notes:
Giuseppe Pastorelli Taper story: What about the show? It was my second Primal Scream show (the other was in Milan 2013, also taped). First night of the acieloaperto 2017 festival. A solid but short performance (as the others of this tour)
Bootleg: Audience Recording (AUD (see location below) > Church Audio CA-14 Cardioids > Church Audio battery box > Edirol R-09 (24-bit/48.0 kHz, LINE-IN, rec. level 30/30) > SDHC Panasonic RP-SDM04G, 16-bit version. Location: about 10 m from stage center, 5 m in front of right speaker, hat-mounted mic. Transfer: SDHC Panasonic RP-SDM04G > HD > Audacity 2.1.2 (editing, see below) > CD Wave 1.98 (track splitting) > r8brain 1.9 (44.1 kHz resampling/very high quality 16-bit dithering) > TLH 2.7.0.172 (level 8 compression) > FLAC. Generation: master (no optical media extraction) Taper: Giuseppe Pastorelli [G.P.] (doublec))
(Giuseppe Pastorelli Taper story: The venue is the courtyard of a Seventeenth/Eighteenth Century villa in San Mauro Pascoli near Cesena. I arrived quite early so I could locate myself 5 m in front of the right speaker and about 10 m from the stage centre. Quite a few people around me and strong sound from the speakers. The recording is imho excellent. Sudden wind gusts at the end of the encore break (05:06-05:07) and during Come Together (03:40-03:42).)
2 CD-R - CD1 - Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) / Jailbird / Dolls (Sweet Rock And Roll) / It's Alright, It's OK / (Feeling Like A) Demon Again / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded - CD2 - Country Girl / Rocks / Encore: Kill All Hippies / Come Together

24 August 2017 - Vilar de Mouros Festival, Vilar de Mouros, Portugal
Bad Moon Rising (CCR cover) / Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Jailbird / It's Alright, It's OK / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks / Come Together
Notes: Jesus And The Mary Chain played on the same day, Bobby appeared on stage with them.
Bootleg: Audience Recording
The Jesus And Mary Chain - 24 August 2017 - Vilar de Mouros Festival, Vilar de Mouros, Portugal
Amputation / April Skies / Head On / Far Gone and Out / Between Planets / Always Sad / Mood Rider / All Things Pass / Some Candy Talking / Halfway to Crazy / War on Peace / I Hate Rock 'n' Roll / Just Like Honey (with Bobby Gillespie) / The Living End (with Bobby Gillespie) / Never Understand (with Bobby Gillespie)
Notes: Bobby Gillespie appeared on the last three tracks of the show.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Taper position: circle. Equipment used: Roland R-05 with internal mics. Lineage: WAV -> Audacity -> TLH -> Flac (level 8).

30 November 2017 - Primal Scream feature in the book C86 & All That (The Creation Of Indie In Difficult Times) by Neil Taylor
Notes: Neil Taylor, Former NME journalists, book. Neil Taylor co-compiled NME's C86 tape. He also wrote Document & Eyewitness: An Intimate History Of Rough Trade. UK Retail Price was £17.99. Paperback Pre-order price was £15 (free U.K. postage) or £20 (Worldwide). Limited Edition Hardback was £20 (free U.K. postage) and £25 (Worldwide). E-Book £6.99

2017 - Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth begin writing together in Paris, France
Notes: Bobby met Savages back in 2015. Bobby saw Jehnny perform at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown in 2015, opening for Iggy Pop. Then Bobby and Jehnny shared the stage together at the final Suicide gig at London’s Barbican. Jehnny Beth lead singer kept in contact with Bobby and they began writing music tgoether in 2017. The result would be the LP 'Utopian Ashes', see 02 July 2021. The 'Utopian Ashes' LP has its roots in a meeting between the two at a fashion show in Paris too.

2018

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Martin Duffy - Keys (and pre-recorded bass samples)
Darrin Mooney - Drums

2018 - Martin Duffy collaborates with Jessue Buckley on the movie score to Wild Rose

2018 - Give Out But Don't Give Up - The Original Memphis Recordings
All songs written by Gillespie / Innes / Young. Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd. / Complete Music Ltd.
CD2 All songs written by Gillespie / Innes / Young except track 1 written by Bob Dylan / Barry Gibb / Robin Gibb, Published by Sony/ ATV Music Publishing (UK) Limited) / Universal / MCA Music Limited. Track 4 written by Bill Monroe / Rose McCoy / Charles Singleton, Published by Peer Music Limited / Carlin Music Corp and BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited and track 15 written by Bryant ,Published by Sony/ ATV Music Publishing (UK) Limited.
Photography by Glen Luchford, Steve Roberts, Neil Cooper & Steve Double. Design by Matthew Cooper & Bobby Gillespie. Sean O'Hagan wrote the booklet in 2018.
Thanks to Lisa McErlain. Dedicated to the memory of Robert Young & Tom Dowd.
Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee. Recorded June / July, mixed August 1993. Produced by Tom Dowd. Engineered and mixed by Jeff Powell. Assistant engineer - Jeffrey Reed.
Bobby Gillespie - Vocals. Andrew Innes - Guitars. Robert Young - Guitars. Martin Duffy - Piano & Organ. David Hood - Bass. Roger Hawkins - Drums
with The Memphis Horns: Wayne Jackson - Trumpet. Andrew Love - Saxophone.
and Denise Johnson - Lead vocals on Free, Backing Vocals. Susan Marshall - Backing Vocals. Jackie Johnson - Backing Vocals. Charlie Jacobs - Harmonica. Henry Olsen - Additional Acoustic Guitar.
2 CD
The Original Tom Dowd Album Mix
Jailbird / Rocks / Call On Me / Give Out / Everybody Needs Somebody / Everybody Needs Somebody (Drum Edit) / Sad & Blue / Big Jet Plane / Big Jet Plane (Instrumental) / Free
Ardent Outtakes
Billy (Bob Dylan cover) - To Love Somebody (The Bee Gees cover) / Memphis Groove (Improvised Song Jam) / Sad And Blue (Early Rehearsal Jam) / Blue Moon Of Kentucky (cover) - Trying To Get To You (cover) / Big Jet Plane (Early Rehearsal Jam / Tom Dowd Instructions) / Free (Bobby Vocal / Full Band Rehearsal Jam) / Everybody Needs Somebody (Alternative Recording) / Country Guitar / Jailbird Guitar / Jesus (Monitor Mix) / Funky Jam (Original Recording) / Free (Early Rehearsal Sitar / Piano / Bobby Vocal) / Call On Me (Monitor Mix) / Cry Myself Blind (Monitor Mix) / All I Have To Do Is Dream (The Everly Brothers cover)

except track 1 written by Bob Dylan / Barry Gibb / Robin Gibb

February 2018 - Bassist Simone Butler is ill
Notes: She came down with the flu on the Australian leg of the tour. She missed two shows in New Zealand and the show in Brazil.
The band replaced her with a mannequin dummy, called Roxy, holding a bass guitar. Martin would activate the pre-recorded bass recordings, almost like a sampler.

February 2018 - New Zealand Show is postponed

28 February 2018 - Tropical Butantã, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / Kill All Hippies / Trippin' On Your Love / Higher Than The Sun / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / 100% Or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
encore: I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Come Together / Movin' On Up
Notes: Set taken from handwritten setlist. Come Together blends the LP version and the single version together.
Primal Scream In Tropical Butantã, Published 01 March 2018 by Fernando Augusto Lopes http://www.botequimdeideias.com.br : ...I found it comforting to have the 1954 version on TV, because hours before I was at Tropical Butantã to see one of my favorite bands, Primal Scream. It was my fourth show of them and I had seen it in many formats. The comparison sticks in your head. The memory is reactivated. Anyone who has had the privilege of seeing the band with Mani and Kevin Shields, can't expect anything less, even if the less that is good – it's going from Billy Wilder to Sydney Pollack, after all.
On February 28, 2018, with an almost full house (perhaps 70% of the capacity, which made the adventure very comfortable), the Primal Scream came in its rickety version, a “Sabrina 1995”, without the charm and strength from before.
Bassist Simone Butler came down with a bad flu while on the Australian leg of the tour last week and couldn't come to Brazil. She had already missed two shows in New Zealand (one of them was even postponed) and Primal Scream took it as a joke, creating the dummy Roxy who was on stage holding the bass. In Brazil, there was not even this joke.
Jokes aside, the case is that even with bass, there is a difference in Primal Scream that came on the commemorative tour of “Screamadelica”, in 2011. A full band, with female backing vocals, bass and brass, transforming their vibrant rock, dancing, bouncing and hypnotic much closer to what was immortalized in the records.
The current version of the band, even without bass, is not even a power rock as many of their creations are also immortalized in some records. Bobby Gillespie (vocals and half-moon), Andrew Innes (the good guitarist, who tried to catch the wave), Martin Duffy (keys and pre-recorded bases) and Darrin Mooney (the drummer more truncated than swaying) did the they could to reconstruct all the parts of the songs presented.
Only, no, it was not possible to escape the comparison. This Primal Scream we saw at Tropical Butantã was a rickety (although not apathetic) Primal Scream, lacking strength, lame, lacking something. His music needs weight and seriousness as much as Samuel A. Taylor's text needs charm and elegance in the treatment as did Billy Wilder.
The version of “Slip Inside This House” (by the 13th Floor Elevators), immortalized in “Screamadelica”, opened the show and is a good example of this. It was left with a huge and strange gap. The same goes for “Higher Than The Sun”, “Loaded”, “Shoot Speed/Kill Light” and the spectacular “Kill All Hippies” (the last two, from “Xtrmntr”). On the other hand, songs that rely more on guitar and Gillespie's wacky performance, such as "Can't Go Back", "Swastika Eyes" and "Country Girl", did very well, as did the only two of the weak. new album, “Chaosmosis” (2016), “Trippin' On Your Love” (one of the best of the show) and “100% Or Nothing”. The best part of the performance ended up being an encore. "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have", one of the best of the band's career, and "Come Together" (in both versions, the album and the single that changed the history of Primal Scream ) are the saviors of the night, with the right to a prolonged chorus from the audience. “Movin' On Up”, however, returns to throw ice water on the audience. Perhaps those who saw the band live for the first time, due to the symbology, might have had fun. But on top of that, the sound was low and weightless (I won't even count the fact that the beer ran out!). However, lacking the strength of a full band, Primal Scream really felt like a worn-out version of itself.

19 April 2018 - Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Shoot Speed, Kill Light, Kill All Hippies / Trippin' on Your Love / Higher Than the Sun / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / 100% or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Come Together / Movin' On Up
Broadcast: Webcast
Bootleg: Webcast
Video Bootleg: Webcast Video

2020 February - The Red Hand Files Issue #82 (Website)
"The Sensational Alex Harvey Band are the uncrowned kings of 70’s rock. Do you agree?" Jone (Egersund, Norway)
Dear Evie and Jone, Evie, in no way are you doomed! Who wants to hang out with someone who agrees with you all the time? A certain friction is essential, and disagreement and mutual forgiveness can become the measure of an interesting and durable relationship. I am reminded of my long friendship with Bobby Gillespie. Now, there is much we don’t agree on politically, however it has done nothing to affect our relationship, other than to energise it, I think. And not everything is politics. At the end of the day, there is always The Sensational Alex Harvey Band!
Nick.
Here is a text exchange between Bobby and me from June 2018.
* * *
N: I’ve been stranded in Porto airport for hours. Nothing is happening. I want to shoot myself.
B: This will cheer you up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbfFZnJZYQ
N: Fuck! I’ve never seen that! My first band was basically an Alex Harvey cover band. We did Framed, Isobel Goudie, Faith Healer, Gang Bang, Next, Midnight Moses, everything. I wore jeans and a tight cropped t-shirt and our guitarist wore clown make-up like Zal.
B: I love that u guys loved Alex Harvey. He did an interview before punk where he said that rock music had become stale and needed high-energy (my words) bands to rise up and blow away the old guard.
N: He was the greatest.
B: He was so loved in Glasgow. His ‘Delilah’ was murderous.
N: Our first gig was a Battle of the Bands thing in a country town and we played ‘Framed’ and came second. It’s been downhill ever since.
B: Do you have a recording?
N: No. His version of ‘Next’ was the greatest, by a million miles.
B: It’s fantastic. I borrowed that album as a teen and that track blew my mind. “The first taste of Gonorrhea”. Amazing.
N: Such fucking venom. As a kid in Australia I could never understand why Alex Harvey sang in such a bizarre way – the way he pronounced his words – I never knew about Scottishness. Then I met you and it all made sense!
B: Ha! Glaswegian.
N: Exactly!!
B: It’s an exclusive dialect.
N: You’re fucking telling me!
B: He couldn’t have come from Edinburgh.
N: It’s impenetrable.
B: Unintelligible. Probably just as well! I’ll teach you.
N: Took me literally years to work out what you were saying!
B: Thank God. I may have been a wee bit smashed.
N: You’re officially forgiven.
B: Thank u Father. Check this out. Pure evil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R861Dw30_Ds
N: I am inspired!
B: Thought you might be.
N: Getting on the plane.
B: So dark. Safe flight.
N: Very dark.
B: Vambo
N: Coming to the rescue!
* * * Love, Nick

28 June 2018 - Classic Scottish Albums, Radio Scotland, BBC
Notes: Bobby Gillespie and Stuart Maconie join Davie Scott to scream about Screamadelica.
Official: MP3 BBC Download

04 August 2018 - Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Main Garden Stage, Belladrum Estate near Beauly, Scotland
Kill All Hippies / Higher Than the Sun / Swastika Eyes / Come Together / Country Girl / Rocks / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Shoot Speed, Kill Light / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have - Loaded
Notes: The Charlatans played the night before.
Broadcast: Partial Webcast / BBC I-Player
Bootleg: Webcast

04 November 2018 10.00 GMT Sunday - The Observer, Guardian Bobby Gillespie interview by Kathryn Bromwich.
Notes: See Media for the full article.

2019
2019 Monday 10am - Andrew Innes guests on Alan McGee's Boogaloo Radio Session
Notes: Alan's McGee's cult breakfast show, on London's Boogaloo Radio.
On this episode of Riots, Raves & Running a label, Alan was joined by special guest Andrew Innes to talk about music, Primal Scream, and working with Alan himself. Aired every Monday 10am on boogalooradio.com or you could listen through the free App.

2019 - Primal Scream appear in Louder Than War Magazine, Issue 23
Notes: The magazine was priced, at retail, over £4.

Primal Scream - May 2019 - Velocity Girl / Broken U.K Release Date
7inch Vinyl
Download
Notes: Was available on 7inch only. Some copies were available, in limited numbers, signed by Bobby.

M - 03 May 2019 - Primal Scream appear on the cover of ES Magazine
Notes: "The Undimmed Majesty Of Bobby Gillespie". ES magazine is a weekly UK publication distributed with the London Evening Standard newspaper.

20?? - Bobby and Katy attend Elton John's wedding
11 May 2019 14.00 BST Saturday - The Observer, Guardian, Interview Bobby Gillespie by Nick McGrath: I went to Elton John’s wedding and it was fun. He’s a Primal Scream fan. Every time I’ve met him he’s been amazing. He’s always very friendly and happy to see me. There were probably 2,000 people there including Elvis Costello and Paul Simonon from the Clash. I went with my wife [stylist Katy England], but I don’t remember that much about it.

11 May 2019 14.00 BST Saturday - The Observer, Guardian, Interview Bobby Gillespie by Nick McGrath
Notes: See Media for the article.

May 2019 - Bobby Gillespie calls Madonna a 'total prostitute' for agreeing to perform at 18 May 2019 - Eurovision, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Notes: Israel won the honour of hosting Eurovision after its contestant Netta won last year’s contest. Multiple artists, including Roger Waters and Peter Gabriel, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the event, and for the BBC to cancel its coverage of the competition.
Eurovision features musicians from more than 40 nations and was watched in 2018 by some 189 million viewers in around 50 European countries. Madonna made a guest appearance on Saturday during the finals. In her first comment on her decision to sing at the event, Madonna said “I’ll never stop playing music to suit someone’s political agenda nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,”
Speaking to Kirsty Wark on Newsnight, Bobby said that the state sits on "stolen land" and claimed Madonna is performing because she is desperate for money and publicity. 'The whole thing is set up to normalise the state of Israel' "Madonna would do anything for money, you know, she's a total prostitute. And I've got nothing against prostitutes. The whole thing is set up to normalise the state of Israel, and its disgraceful treatment of the Palestinian people. "By going to perform in Israel what you do is you normalise that. Primal Scream would never perform in Israel. I think Madonna is just desperate for publicity, desperate for the money. They pay very, very well." "I'm not anti-Semitic at all. All my heroes are Jews. Karl Marx, Bob Dylan, The Marx Brothers."

Primal Scream - 24 May 2019 - Maximum Rock 'N' Roll: The Singles U.K Release Date
Remastered from the original master tapes at Metropolis Studios by John Davis
Sleeve Design by Matthew Cooper & Bobby Gillespie. Marketing: Claire Dougherty.
2013 - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by David Holmes.
It's Alright, It's OK - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by David Holmes.
Goodbye Johnny - Written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Produced by David Holmes.
Where The Light Gets In (with Sky Ferreira) - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Bjorn Yttling.
100% Or Nothing - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes. Haim on backing vocals.
Volume One 1 - 2 Disc Vinyl LP
Volume One 2 - 2 Disc Vinyl LP
Stream, Download.
2 CD
Disc 1 -
Disc 2 -
2013 / It's Alright, It's OK / Goodbye Johnny / Where The Light Gets In (with Sky Ferreira) / 100% Or Nothing /
Notes: 2 CD, Volume One 2 LP, Volume Two 2 LP

Primal Scream - 24 May 2019 - Maximum Rock 'N' Roll: The Singles Japanese Release Date
2 CD
2 CD Limited Edition with photo booklet in slipcase
Mantra For A State Of Mind - Written by Mark Moore / Brenda Beale. Produced by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Bjorn Yttling.
Golden Rope (Lynchmob Remix) - Written by Gillespie / Innes. Produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes. Remix by Brendan Lynch.
Disc 1 -
Disc 2 -
2013 / It's Alright, It's OK / Goodbye Johnny / Where The Light Gets In (with Sky Ferreira) / 100% Or Nothing / Mantra For A State Of Mind / Golden Rope (Lynchmob Remix)
Notes: Mantra For A State Of Mind & Golden Rope (Lynchmob Remix) are Japanese only bonus tracks.

29 May 2019 - Mary Anne Hobbs Show, BBC Session, Maida Vale
Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Mary Anne Hobbs introduced the band but there was no interview during the session.
Broadcast: DAB BBC Radio 6 Music
Bootleg: Webstream (BBC Website (live) online stream 2019-05-01 aac 48kHz @ 320kbps: BBC Radio 6 Music > aac webstream > DVBViewer Media Server > .ts > ffmpeg > .aac)

31 May 2019 - Best Kept Secret Festival. Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Accelerator / Kowalski / 100% or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Broadcast missing 2 tracks, Accelerator & 100% or Nothing.
Broadcast: NPO 3FM - Double J Live At The Wireless Show
Bootleg: FM - The Netherlands 2019 - CD-R (Lineage: Digital Terrestrial Broadcast on 2020-05-12 (MPEG1 Layer 2 48kHz @ 256kb/s) Double J Radio > DVB-T > AVerMedia H727 PCIe Hybrid DVBT > DVBviewer > .mp2 > Adobe Audition CS6 (Edit/Cut) > TLH V2.8.3 [Build 182] (FLAC Lvl8 - Fix SBE’s) > TagScanner 6.1.4 (Tagging) - Double J Live At The Wireless [NPO 3FM Live Recording] - Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Kowalski / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

01 June 2019 - Primavera Sound Festival, Spain
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Accelerator / Kowalski / 100% or Nothing / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Broadcast missing 2 tracks.
Broadcast: Radio Broadcast
Bootleg: FM Recording () Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Accelerator / Kowalski / 100% or Nothing (cut) / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

2019 - Bobby goes to see Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Candidate, at Union Chapel, Islington, North London

12 July 2019 - NOS Alive Festival, Palco NOS, Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Oeiras, Portugal
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Miss Lucifer / Kowalski / Higher Than the Sun / Kill All Hippies / Swastika Eyes / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Broadcast: Partial Webcast
Bootleg: Webcast (LIVE Webcast -> Streamlink -> FFmpeg (edit) -> Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 16:9 2730 Kbps 25.00 fps Audio: HE-AAC with SBR 96 Kbps 48.0 KHz stereo)

19 July 2019 - Lattitude Festival

26 July 2019 - The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show podcast
Notes: More highlights from anotherweek of the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show podcast. Primal Scream appear.
Official: MP3 BBC Download: The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show podcast

10 August 2019 Saturday - Summer Sessions, Princes St. Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland * Doors Open: 18:00 * Ticket Price: £67.50 (S/C £8.40, Total £75.90)
* Support Act(s): Johnny Marr
(incomplete) Movin’ On Up / Jailbird / Miss Lucifer / Higher Than The Sun / Come Together / Kill All Hippies / Swastika Eyes /
Loaded (with Johnny Marr) / Country Girl (with Johnny Marr) / Rocks (with Johnny Marr)
Notes: Three songs into Johnny Marr's set the band leave the stage due to a heavy electrical storm. 15 minutes later Marr and co return to the stage to finish the set. Johnny would later return to the stage, again, to play with Primal Scream for the enore.
From November 2019 - Uncut Magazine - 19 September 2019 2 - Primal Screa / Johnny Marr Review by Michael Bonner: Two British indie institutions come together for a thunderous double-header. Three songs into their set, Johnny Marr and his band are forced to leave the stage owing to a heavy electrical storm. It’s been a dismal week for outdoor happenings across the UK – severe weather has led to several cancellations – but tonight Edinburgh gets off with nothing more serious than some diverting drama. After a 15-minute delay, Marr strolls back onstage, grabs a guitar and launches into “This Charming Man”. Thunder? Lighting? Pah! He’s “Johnny, Johnny, Johnny Fucking Marr” as the crowd chant throughout his set, and a fair chunk of Primal Scream’s as well. Despite such lively endorsements, Marr only conclusively made the transition from sideman to frontman relatively recently. He has always looked the part – tonight, he’s sporting a Paisley shirt, tight black trousers and a black bomber jacket – but it’s only since 2018’s Call The Comet that his solo material has finally cohered in a way that brings sustained heft and substance to the style. Perhaps as a consequence, Marr has become a more assured singer of late; his warm, Mancunian baritone even sounds uncannily like his former collaborator on “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”. Tonight’s set – drawn from Smiths, Electronic and solo records – feels like the whole package. Of course “Bigmouth Strikes Again”, “How Soon Is Now?” and “Get The Message” still thrill, but the handful of songs he plays from Call The Comet stand up alongside his earlier musical compositions. Speaking to Uncut last year, Marr said: “I’m always trying to move forward. I’ve got a healthy disdain and a wariness of anything too classic.”
It is a sentiment that Primal Scream similarly espouse, but here they are, on a tour to support a career-spanning singles compilation, Maximum Rock’n’Roll, that even extends as far back as their first two records. Alas, we’re not treated to “Velocity Girl” or “Imperial”, dusted off for earlier shows on this tour. In that sense, it’s very much business as usual from the Scream. They open with “Movin’ On Up” and “Jailbird” – a terrific statement of intent, but one that sounds weirdly thin here. Things change when the band begin to trigger samples, adding guts and texture to the Suicide drones of “Miss Lucifer” and “Higher Than The Sun”. By the time they’re into a 15-minute version of “Come Together”, augmented by recordings of gospel choirs, brass and more, they achieve lift-off.
On record, Screamadelica is where Primal Scream came of age. But as anyone who saw them live around the turn of the millennium will attest, it is the nine-piece touring band – enhanced by Kevin Shields and a brass section – that defined the modern-day Primal Scream as a potent, focused live act. “Kill All Hippies” and “Swastika Eyes”, both from that period, are livid collisions of avant-rock and distorted electronics. In the midst of it all there’s Gillespie, posing like fury in his pink suit.
The key, as ever with Primal Scream, is their collaborators. Tonight they are joined by Johnny Marr for a splendid gallop through “Loaded”, “Country Girl” and “Rocks”. But Marr is arguably too charismatic a presence for this, the chanting of his name threatening to derail “Country Girl”. At least his guitar adds further ballast to Primal Scream’s sound. So where next for the Scream? Maximum Rock’n’Roll provides a full summary of the story so far. Do they have one more album in them as good as Screamadelica, Vanishing Point or XTRMNTR? Here’s hoping

September 2019 - Bobby, stylist Katy and son's Lux and Wolf, attend Paris Fashion Week

25 September 2019 - Echoes Session, Yoyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Movin' On Up / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Broadcast: Webcast Video
Bootleg: Webstream (Lineage: Webcast -> Streamlink -> FFmpeg - Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 16:9 2280 Kbps 25.00 fps Audio: AAC 128 Kbps 48.0 KHz stereo) - Movin' On Up / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

October 2019 - Simone Marie Butler features in Bass Player Magazine, 03 September 2019 Prime Mover
Notes: See 2012 when she joined the band for the article.

Maximum Rock 'N' Roll Tour
Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes
Martin Duffy
Darrin Mooney - Drums
Simone Butler - Bass

19 November 2019 Tuesday - Academy, Oxford
20 November 2019 Wednesday - Guildhall, Southampton
21 November 2019 Thursday - Dome, Brighton

23 November 2019 Saturday - University Great Hall, Cardiff
Don't Fight It, Feel It / Swastika Eyes / Miss Lucifer / Can't Go Back / Accelerator / Kill All Hippies / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have / Velocity Girl / Dolls (Sweet Rock And Roll) / Burning Wheel / 100% Or Nothing / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl
encore: Come Together / Jailbird / Rocks
Notes: This would be the band's last show before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Bootleg: Audience Recording

24 November 2019 Sunday - Academy, Liverpool

26 November 2019 Tuesday - Albert Hall, Manchester
Don’t Fight It Feel It / Swastika Eyes / (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / Velocity Girl / Dolls (Sweet Rock N Roll) / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Come Together / Jailbird (with Johnny Marr) / Rocks (with Johnny Marr)
Notes: Before playing Velocity Girl, Bobby recalls the early days gigging in Manchester at past venues such as The International in 1987, and The Boardwalk in 1989.
Johnny Marr joins the band onstage playing guitar.
Paula Farr (02 December 2019 Monday - silentradio.co.uk) said: Bobby Gillespie dressed impeccably as ever with skinny blue pants, silver shirt and hair flopping around doing his whirling dervish hippy dance throughout.

27 November 2019 Wednesday - UEA, Norwich
29 November 2019 Friday - Forum, Kentish Town, London
December
01 December 2019 Sunday - Empire, Coventry
03 December 2019 Tuesday - Rock City, Nottingham
04 December 2019 Wednesday - University, Asylum, Hull
06 December 2019 Friday - Academy, Leeds
07 December 2019 Saturday - Boiler Shop, Newcastle

10 December 2019 Tuesday - Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £30

13 December 2019 Friday - Ironworks, Inverness
14 December 2019 Saturday - Music Hall, Aberdenn
15 December 2019 Sunday - Concert Hall, Perth

17 December 2019 Tuesday - Barrowland, Glasgow, Scotland * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £27.50

18 December 2019 Wednesday - Barrowland, Glasgow, Scotland * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £27.50