2020

17 February 2020 - Andrew Weatherall passes
Notes: Born 06 April 1963 the pioneering DJ and producer died, aged 56, following a pulmonary embolism in Whipps Cross Hospital, London.
Weatherall’s management described his death as “swift and peaceful”. “His family and friends are profoundly saddened by his death and are taking time to gather their thoughts,” the spokesperson said. “Further announcements regarding funeral arrangements will be made in due course.
DJs and producers have been remembering Weatherall on Twitter.
Lauren Laverne said: “Absolutely heartbroken to hear about Weatherall. A wonderful person who contributed so much to music and British culture. The world is a poorer place today.”
Tim Burgess, The Charlatans singer, wrote: “Shocked and saddened to hear that cosmic traveller Andrew Weatherall has left the building. Always a pleasure to meet up with him and share good times. Rest well mate”.
Dave Clarke, DJ, producer and radio host added: “1) Tears, so very sad to hear Andrew Weatherall passed away. He first booked me in the early Nineties for a Magnetic North night he was so gracious to host.”
DJ and record label owner Gilles Peterson tweeted: “Hard to put into words the influence and impact Andrew Weatherall has had on UK culture... so sad to hear of his passing RIP”.
The dance musician, Yousef tweeted: “Absolutely stunned. RIP to a great of greats. Andrew Weatherall. Your electrifying music scared the s*** out of me as a very young raver at Cream in 1993 and many times since. Condolences to family and friends.”
Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, said: “Absolutely distraught to hear this terrible news. Andrew was a longtime friend, collaborator and one of [the] most talented persons I’ve known. Also one of the nicest. Genius is an overworked term but I’m struggling to think of anything else that defines him.”
DJ Nick Warren wrote: “The worst of news today. Andrew Weatherall rest in peace sir you were the best DJ I ever heard and a top man. Terribly sad.”
Former Ride and Oasis member, Andy Bell told his Twitter followers: “An absolute titan of music has passed on. RIP Andrew Weatherall”.
From 10 October 2021 12.00 BST Sunday - The Observer, Guardian Newspaper Bobby Gillespie Interview by Barbara Ellen: Andrew Weatherall was considered a pivotal influence on Primal Scream, a facilitator of the rock/acid house fusion of Screamadelica.
BG: One hundred per cent: No Weatherall, no Screamadelica. I write about it in the book, it’s about trust. Trust in his taste. Trust that when he was mixing our stuff, if he threw something at it, it was needed. Andrew worked with Hugo Nicolson, who had the tech knowhow. Andrew had the imagination and the vision, and together they were an incredible team. Weatherall was unique. He wasn’t a musician or a guy who’d been in recording studios. He wasn’t a geek, sitting in the back room with a computer since he was 13. He was a savant, an artist, who had this natural ability to make visionary music.
Irvine Welsh: IW: When Andrew passed, everything in the world just seemed to turn to shit. It was like the end of an era, for want of a better term. His creative and social tentacles went everywhere. He knew all sorts of people, he had all sorts of associations and collaborations. An amazing character, very conceptual and thematic in his thinking. Probably the defining artist of that era, right through the 90s, to the present day. Do you remember his funeral? We were in that place in Clapham, and everybody was there, from across all different places and times. He kind of united everybody. That was the last night everybody was together and then, bang, the pandemic hit. In a strange way, if he had to go, that was the time to do it.

23 February 2020 09.30 GMT Sunday - The Observer, Guardian, Bobby Gillespie Interview by Sean O’Hagan
Notes: See Media for the article paying tribute to Andrew Weatherall.

23/24 March 2020 - U.K. COVID-19 Lockdown
Notes: The pandemic halts the bands upcoming activity for almost two years.

2020 - Martin Duffy signs on for jobseekers allowance
Notes: Martin signed on the dole. As a session musician he had no income.
Louie Duffy said: I remember Dad telling Bobby Gillespie on the phone that he was having to sign on for benefits to get by as he had no savings but the band offered no support either emotional or financial. I saw how much this upset him.

28 May 2020 - Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire * Cancelled due to COVID-19 *
June 2020 - Secret Solstice Festival, Laugardalur Park, Reykjavik, Iceland * Cancelled due to COVID-19 *

01 June 2020 - Bo Ningen - Minimal (with Bobby Gillespie) U.K Release Date
Minimal (with Bobby Gillespie)
Notes: London-based Japanese alternative-rock band Bo Ningen release the new single (Minimal) which features guest vocals from Bobby Gillespie. The track features on their 'Sudden Fictions' LP, see 26 June 2020.
Commenting on collaborating with Gillespie, bassist and vocalist Taigen Kawabe says: “Minimal is the first-ever ‘properly produced’ track—as well as the catchiest song—in Bo Ningen’s thirteen year history. After crossing the world line guided by Andrew Innes and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, the anthemic element of a new sound was extracted and finalised by producer/electronic musician Matthew Herbert.”
The aforementioned ‘world line’ is the path which an object traces in 4-dimensional spacetime. It is an important concept in modern physics, and particularly theoretical physics, which the band see as central to the ambitious theme of sonically re-contextualising themselves within ‘history seen as open structure’ explored on forthcoming album Sudden Fictions.
Produced by Drew Brown (best known for his work on albums such as ‘Amok’ by Atoms For Peace, and ‘Hyperspace’ by Beck). The album sessions took place at Vox Studios, East West Studios and Studio 101. Recorded around the world in London, Tokyo, and LA.

26 June 2020 - Bo Ningen - Sudden Fictions LP featuring Bobby Gillespie U.K Release Date
05 - Minimal (with Bobby Gillespie)
Notes: London-based Japanese alternative-rock band Bo Ningen's Minimal features guest vocals from Bobby Gillespie. The LP was released via Alopop! Records. All pre-orders came with a free art print too.
Produced by Drew Brown (best known for his work on albums such as ‘Amok’ by Atoms For Peace, and ‘Hyperspace’ by Beck). The album sessions took place at Vox Studios, East West Studios and Studio 101. Recorded around the world in London, Tokyo, and LA.

23-26 July 2020 - Standon Calling 2020, Standon Lordship, Standon, Hertfordshire * Cancelled due to COVID-19 *
Notes: The festival would have celebrated their 15th anniversary, see 2022 for the next festival.
Tickets remained valid for 2021, and in turn 2022. Ticket holders were entered into a prize draw to win one of 20 Adult Weekend Festival tickets for life, or one of 50 £50 bar tabs for the next festival.
In a statement, Standon Calling said: “We are heartbroken to announce that due to the impact of Covid-19, the 15th anniversary of Standon Calling will no longer be taking place in 2020. As communicated in April, we have been exploring multiple options, however it has become clear that hosting the festival this year will not be possible...We are incredibly sad that this will be the first year since we started out that the festival will not go ahead, but this is the right decision for all of us - our audience, our staff, our local community, our artists and the emergency services. I can promise you that we are already relishing the challenge to deliver The Party of All Time [in 2021] and then some... after all of this is behind us we are going to need it!”

27 July 2020 - Denise Johnson passes away.
Notes: Denise died aged 56. Her cause of death remains undisclosed, but a statement issued by her family said she had “died suddenly” after a short illness. She had been found that morning, holding her inhaler.
Just days before her death, she tweeted about the upcoming release of her debut acoustic album, Where Does It Go, for release 25 September. It comprises covers of Manchester bands like The Smiths, 10cc, New Order, but was originally supposed to feature only songs by Mancunian female artists. Unfortunately, she said, “I couldn’t find any.”
Denise was born 31 July 1963 in Hulme, Manchester. She grew up near the Hulme Crescents estate and Epping Walk bridge. In 1979, an internationally renowned rock photographer used the bridge as the setting for a series of photos for NME, of a still relatively unknown band called Joy Division. Like London’s Abbey Road, the bridge became a beacon for music lovers and tourists alike. Upon hearing of Johnson’s death, the Salford band’s drummer Stephen Morris paid tribute to the singer, calling her “an absolutely beautiful lady”.
Denise had a passion for Manchester City had to be suppressed as a child due to fears of racial abuse on the terraces, though she would later become an enthusiastic and eloquent advocate of the club.
At an early fashion show gig at The Ritz, Manchester, she wandered over to the band onstage who told her that auditions were being held for a singer. The manager said: “If you sing half as good as you look, you’re in!” Denise had never had a singing lesson and taught herself to sing. The manager gave her two weeks to learn two Sister Sledge songs. Johnson was up against one other woman – seemingly a professional artist. Johnson was terrified, and let her go first. “I watched her perform with the band behind her and thought, f***…” Afterwards, Johnson shuffled on to the stage, wearing a fluff-covered jumper in which she often slept. She told Product Magazine that the other woman auditioning “looked like the love-child of Tina Turner, and here was me, looking like a tramp, trying to sing ‘Lost in Music’ and ‘We Are Family’.” Convinced she had blown the audition, she tried to sneak out. But the manager stopped her and said: “Where are you going? You’ve got it!”
During the late Eighties, Johnson would learn how to perform on stage with microphones, singing in various cover bands and as part of a cabaret act, from which she said she was fired for being “too opinionated”.
In 1989, she joined Fifth of Heaven, who were supporting the American soul band Maze and Frankie Beverly on their UK tour. Her first gig was the very first night of the tour, at Wembley Arena. Regarding Just A Little More, Denise said 1994 - Vox Magazine: “It sounded so complacent and subdued and it had no fire. I need fire.”
Sumner and Marr's Electronic asked Denise Johnson to record some vocals for “Get the Message”. Johnny Marr said: “Even though she was a mate, you felt it was a privilege her being on your song. She kind of gold-plated songs – you knew that the track was going to acquire a few extra gold stars...She was a class singer and a class person, a real no-nonsense Mancunian woman. She knew what she had was special, because everyone knew that what she had was special. You couldn’t really separate the person from the singer, really – her talent was so great and it was such a special thing, that you just relate to her, as that person who did that magic thing.”
In the studio, Denise met Tony Martin, who asked her to sing on a track for his rave band Hypnotone.
Hypnotone were signed to Creation Records, Tony Martin began doing programming for Primal Scream. Bobby wasn’t convinced he could pull off the vocals for their new song and Martin suggested Denise. The band came to watch Hypnotone perform with Denise and, as the story goes, guitarist Andrew Innes rang Gillespie and said: “Get down here now, we’ve found the f***ing singer.”
Denise recorded with the band. Recording with Primal Scream, she remembered, was like going for a night out with a bit of singing in between.
The band asked her to tour with them, she said no six times. However, it was seventh time lucky, and what followed were five “truly magical, hair-tearing out, raucous years”.
Denise recorded with A Certain Ratio and toured with the band too.
Denise released solo material and was due to release an acoustic album of covers, initally scheduled for 25 September 2020.
Primal Scream’s bassist, Simone Marie Butler, wrote on twitter: “Very sad news... love and prayers to Denise’s family and loved ones. Rest in Power Denise Johnson.”
Happy Mondays singer Rowetta tweeted “I have so many great memories of Denise from when we were young, We just used to sing & laugh like naughty schoolgirls all the time.” Rowetta described Johnson’s death as “a great loss to Manchester and music”.
808 State said that Johnson’s voice “sews so many memories together in many contexts – but most of all she gave the best hugs”.

2021

20 March 2021 - Creation Stories is released on Sky Cinemas
Notes: Creation Stories was based on the 2013 autobiography of the same name, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh penned the series about Alan McGee and the rise of Creation Records. The show was directed by Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels actor Nick Moran. Trainspotting’s Spud aka Ewen Bremner plays adult Alan McGee.
Alan McGee went clean, aged 32, apart from taking Valium for anxiety after suffering a nervous breakdown in 1994. He only managed to ween himself off that before a couple of years before lockdown.
From 14 March 2021 08:04 Sunday - independent.co.uk Alan McGee Interview by Roisin O’Connor: “Tony [Wilson] and the other Factory Records lot struggled with [Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 biopic] 24 Hour Party People,” he says. “I worked out really early that this is just Irvine’s version of my life. Once you get your head round it, that it’s not real, then it’s fine.” He says the film is “50 per cent true, 50 per cent f***ing bollocks”, but “you’ve got to let Irvine Welsh be Irvine Welsh, because the guy’s a genius”. Probably the most glaring deviation from fact is the ending (also the film’s cheesiest moment), which (spoiler alert) shows an adult McGee visiting his abusive father for the first time in years, and discovering him sat on the sofa wearing headphones, belting it out to Oasis. “I haven't spoken to my Dad in 20 years,” McGee says, “and [Welsh] has got me going off into the sunset with him… he probably would have belted me over the head with that Oasis record.”
July 2021 - Uncut Magazine/Website - 20 May 2021 NME - “Where does this rage come from, this suspicious nature , this anger , this cynicism ?”: Have you seen the Alan McGee film, by the way? I watched it twice. The first time it’s weird to see yourself portrayed by an actor. I felt a bit like, ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t have worn that jacket!’ Second time I understood it’s more of a comedy. I was pleased Irvine [Welsh] picked up that McGee’s this innocent and enthusiastic guy. I think that’s why people were attracted to him. He wasn’t like these other people in the music business who are more cynical. He was a good guy. You can see that he was making it up as he went along – that was half the fucking fun. No-one knew what they were doing. Nobody, not us, not McGee, not Kevin Shields. Maybe Oasis, because their manager was a lot more focused. We didn’t have a manager and neither did Shields. McGee was supposed to be our manager.

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - 31 March 2021 - Remember We Were Lovers U.K. Release Date
Video directed by Douglas Hart.
Notes: 'focus track' from the upcoming LP, see 02 July 2021. Douglas Hart (Jesus And Mary Chain) directed the video. Bobby said: “I wanted to put pain back into music,” Gillespie added about the intention behind the new song. “I wasn’t hearing a lot of it in modern rock music.”

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - 06 May 2021 - Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Chase It Down U.K Release Date
Chase It Down
Promo Video Directed by Thomas James.
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Martin Duffy - Piano/Keyboards
Darrin Mooney - Drums
Johnny Hostile (Beth’s music partner) - Bass
Notes: The 'focus track' single from the upcoming LP, see 02 July 2021. Gillespie said: “When you write a song you marry the personal with the fictional and make art. I was thinking about two people living alone, together but apart, existing and suffering in a psychic malaise, who plough on because of responsibilities and commitments. “It’s about the impermanence of everything — an existential fact that everyone has to face at some point in their lives.”

08 May 2021 09.30 BST Saturday - The Observer, Guardian - The Q&A, Life and style Interview by Rosanna Greenstreet.
Notes: Bobby Q&A, see Media for the article. Includes: What is your favourite smell? It used to be amphetamine sulphate but now it’s my two dogs, especially the staffordshire bull terrier puppy, Ivy.

29 May 2021 - Sonic Flower Groove Re-issue news
Notes: Unreleased revised version was set to include the B-Side ‘Black Star Carnival' and unreleased 'Tomorrow Ends Today', a new sleeve design and remixes of all the tracks with some additional overdubs.
Bobby Gillespie said he discovered a newfound appreciation for the LP while working on his autobiography Tenement Kid. The band did release Reverberations (Travelling In Time) 1985-86 (see 2023) though, this featured the band's first two singles and their BBC Sessions from the same era. The sessions including several previously unreleased tracks.
From NME Article By Will Lavin: Primal Scream announce plans to reissue debut album ‘Sonic Flower Groove’. The revised version will include two unreleased tracks. Speaking in a new interview, frontman Bobby Gillespie said he discovered a newfound appreciation for the 1987 album while working on his autobiography Tenement Kid. He said because there’s still elements of the record he’d like to change, the group are discussing releasing a revised version of it including the addition of two unreleased tracks.
“I wrote a lot about that record and the experience of recording it – we recorded it twice – and our inexperience,” Gillespie told Uncut. “I re-listened to the record a lot and had a new respect for it. We’re maybe going to reissue it.
“We’ll add two songs – there’s ‘Black Star Carnival’, which was a B-side, and also this unreleased track called ‘Tomorrow Ends Today’. It sounds like it could have been on the first Stone Roses record.” He added: “I’m going to re-sequence the album and do a new record sleeve.”
Noting the album’s production, Gillespie said he plans to make a few changes and add some harmonies. “At that point, everyone had the ’80s drum sound – the Bunnymen, The Smiths, everybody,” he said. “So, it would be good if we take the ’80s drum sound off it and maybe we could add some harmonies, because when I listen to it now, I think, ‘Why didn’t we do harmonies there?’ “So we might tinker with it, maybe we won’t. But ‘Tomorrow Ends Today’ sounds like a single. Why did we leave it off the album? It’s so good! “The first side just runs like a dream – bang, bang, bang, bang. For some reason, we fucked it up.”

18 June 2021 Friday - Isle of Wight Festival, Newport, Isle of Wight
Notes: Cancelled due to COVID-19, see September 2021 for rescheduled date.

June 2021 - Rehearsals, London
Notes: The band's first time back together in a room for over a year.

18 Friday - 20 June 2021 Sunday - Bigfoot Festival, Ragley, Alcester
Notes: The band's first show back after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louie Duffy said: After months of not working, the first gig after lockdown was the Bigfoot Festival in Warwickshire in June 2021. I remember it because Dad had just had the surgery for his cancer and still had a catheter and bag fitted. He insisted that he was fit to play but should never have attempted to do the gig, but by this time he was desperate for money. Dad was really nervous leading up to that gig, which he never normally was. He had post-op complications and was in constant pain, I will never forget how distressed he was by this. There was a problem with the fitting of his catheter which meant it wasn’t working and he had to visit the A&E department at Hammersmith hospital during rehearsals in London, just a couple of days before the gig. Dad said he was in agony - but he would never have let the band down -
and continued to do the gig but was so preoccupied trying to cope with his discomfort that it lead to him messing up on stage. Dad admitted that he had drunk alcohol before the gig but only to help him deal with the pain, he ended up having what he described as a ‘brain freeze’ on stage - a panic attack - and had struggled to play, something that had never happened to him before. This lead to the band suggesting that he go into ‘rehab’ but Dad was adamant that this was unnecessary as his issues were to do with his medical problems that day, but he did agree to go to alcohol counseling for a few months afterwards and was able to perform without incident at all subsequent gigs, a fact which has been confirmed by several people who worked with him.

June 2021 - Lorde - Solar Power U.K. Release Date
Notes: New Zealand musician made her return, four years after the release of her critically-acclaimed second album ‘Melodrama’. She openly spoke about Loaded being a direct influence on the record. The band were more than happy to praise her and approved of the song.
From 14 July 2021 - NME Magazine, article by Andrew Trendell: Bobby Gillespie: “Everyone in Primal Scream is really flattered that Lorde was influenced by ‘Loaded'” "It's incredible," the frontman told NME By Andrew Trendell
Primal Scream‘s Bobby Gillespie has spoken of how “flattered” the band are that Lorde was influenced by their seminal ‘Loaded’ for her recent single ‘Solar Power‘. The New Zealand musician made her return last month, four years after the release of her critically-acclaimed second album ‘Melodrama’. She went on to speak about Primal Scream’s influence on her comeback single – pinpointing ‘Loaded’ as a key inspiration behind it – before the indie veterans took to Twitter to share that they “loved” the song.
Now, frontman Bobby Gillespie has revealed that the whole band are “flattered” that they had inspired Lorde.
“I need to hear [the whole album],” Gillespie told NME. “I’ve heard that one track. I was watching the Italy vs Spain match and they were playing Lorde over the goals at the end. It’s incredible.”
He continued: “I’m really, really flattered, we all are. Everyone in Primal Scream is flattered that she was influenced by ‘Loaded’. It’s really cool.”
Lorde had previously revealed that she had spoken to Gillespie about the similarities between the songs and that he was “so lovely about it”.
“He was like, ‘You know, these things happen, you caught a vibe that we caught years ago,’” she explained. “And he gave us his blessing.
“So let the record state ‘Loaded’ is 100 per cent the original blueprint for this, but we arrived at it organically. And I’m glad we did.”
This comes after George Michael’s estate recently praised Lorde when connections were made between the singer’s new single ‘Solar Power’ and Michael’s hit ‘Freedom ’90’.
“We are aware that many people are making a connection between ‘Freedom ’90’ by George Michael and ‘Solar Power’ by Lorde which George would have been flattered to hear, so on behalf of one great artist to a fellow artist, we wish her every success with the single,” the short statement from Michael’s estate reads.

July 2021 - Uncut Magazine/Website
Notes: The NME ran the same/very similar article 20 May 2021 - “Where does this rage come from, this suspicious nature , this anger , this cynicism ?”, see Media for the article.

01 July 2021 - Front Row Podcast - Bobby Gillespie
Notes: The podcast was available for over a year. Presenter: John Wilson. Producer: Simon Richardson.
"We speak with Bobby Gillespie, front man of Primal Scream who has released a new album, Utopian Ashes, comprised of duets with French singer Jehnny Beth from Savages. Themed around a disintegrating marriage, it’s a richly orchestrated album that doesn’t necessarily fit into fans’ expectations for either singer."
Official: MP3 Podcast Download

05 July 2021 - The Big Issue, Interview by Paul English
Scream To A Sigh - “I’m a character who thinks and feels deeply,” the 59-year-old Glaswegian says, speaking to The Big Issue from his London home ahead of the release of an album few Primal Icream fans saw coming. “I always wanted to make music that meant so much to people that it gave them strength. I know we’ve done records in the past like Rocks, Movin’ On Up and Come Together that are celebratory and ‘up’. The party records. “But I wanted to express the part of myself that was a bit more honest, talking about raw adult subject matter which was not just cathartic for me to write but that would hopefully connect with other people.” The result is Utopian Ashes, recorded with French artist and Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth. It’s an LP closer to the classic Americana duet dynamic INTERVIEW of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris than the “speed freak intense paranoia” of some of Primal Icream’s classic oeuvre.
While the rambunctious rock-haze of his band’s heyday could have carried a cautionary sticker about the pitfalls of recreational indulgence, new tracks such as Remember We Were Lovers are to be approached with caution too.
Yet this is not the territory of youthful euphoria. Rather, it’s the hollow rattle of middle age. “It’s more adult, more serious,” Gillespie says, the words of a man who tamed the beast. “We are writing the kind of songs and making the kind of record that we should be at this age. “Mates of mine of a certain age really identified when we put the song Remember We Were Lovers on social media. I don’t think I’ve ever had that kind of connection to a song.”
Gillespie has been married to wife Katy England for 15 years, and the pair have two sons. While some of these songs spring from the well of lived experience, it would be too simple to say they were autobiographical.
“I’m happily married,” he says. “I’ve been with my wife for 20 years. People are always going to project stuff, but everything’s cool, man. I’m a writer, and I’m trying to write about adults. The struggle. Marriage. Family. It’s maybe the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. It has given me a new respect for my parents. Everybody’s parents, actually.”
Gillespie is on voluble form when he checks in for a Zoom meeting with The Big Sssue. One minute he’s talking about Franco Berardi, the Stalian cultural theorist whose spoken-word album he contributed a poetry reading to last March; the next, we’re discussing Celtic’s dramatic collapse. “I can tell you’re a Celtic fan,” he says, laughing. “Enlightened man. Cultured. You think about things.
And you can speak.” No need for flattery, Bobby. We’re on the same page here.
But, what a mess, eh? "All I can say is give out but don’t give up.”
As a role model, Gillespie put more than a few wrinkles on the brows of parents in the 1990s, his band’s excesses rolling along amid a throbbing soundtrack of dealers dealin’ and clap itchin’.
He has spoken about band members turning up to recording sessions in the 1990s after the haze of their hit album Screamadelica had passed, just to score heroin. But the hedonism came at a cost. “It’s hard to talk about dead people,” he says, when I raise the subject of some Scream associates, including former guitarist Robert ‘Throb’ Young, who died aged 49 in 2014, eight years after leaving the band. It’s a topic whose detail is reserved for his autobiography, to be called Tenement Kid, planned for release later this year. “I write with affection, love and admiration for them in my book. It’s hard to talk about it in an interview. But as artists, we never look back. We just keep going.”
He’s sober now, and has been since the late 2000s. The reduced stimulation of life amid a pandemic was as much to his liking as anything he took in the 1990s. “I’m lucky enough that I am able to live a creative life and I was able to write a book during lockdown,” he says. “It’s something I decided I was going to do before coronavirus happened. “Some writers and musicians loved lockdown and are embarrassed to say, because a lot of people suffered, lost their jobs and stuff. “But as songwriters and artists, it was business as usual. I’m not that sociable a person. My life is really going to the studio, trying to make some work. It’s not hermetic, but it’s been business as usual for me. Except I can’t go to the record shop.”
Now he can, and from July, his latest offering will be on the shelves. Utopian Ashes has its roots in a meeting between the two at a fashion show in Paris. Gillespie had already seen Beth perform at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown in 2015, opening for Iggy Pop. Later that year, they performed together on stage at the fnal Suicide gig at London’s Barbican, and in 2016 Beth joined Gillespie on stage with Primal Scream at Bristol Downs to cover Lee Nazlewood and Nancy Sinatra’s Some Velvet Morning (which Primal Scream had recorded alongside Kate Moss on their 2002 album Evil Heat). A collaboration seemed inevitable and took shape gradually, since their frst sessions in Paris in 2017. “We didn’t know at that time what it was going to be. We didn’t know if we were helping her or she was helping us. We just knew that we weren’t making another Primal Scream record, because we’d already made a lot of them.
“When Jehnny and I sang together in Paris, it was like magic. Effortless. It just ftted perfectly. You can’t just do a duets record with just anybody.
“It evolved naturally and, because the songs evolved slowly, there was a lot of space in them, which allowed me to write about this subject matter. It wasn’t electronic techno and hardcore rock. It wasn’t paranoid and angry. There was a gentleness to the rhythm. It let my words breathe, and the songs, too. It wasn’t as claustrophobic as some of the Primal Scream stuff can be.”
One track, the waltzing English Town, elevates the focus from domestic matters of the heart to domestic politics, a rummage through the hopeless fag ends of broken Britain, from Poundland to the burned-out pub. We’re a long way from Movin’ On Up here. He says: “It’s not judgemental, it’s not fnger-pointing. It’s full of empathy and sadness. As the country becomes more nationalistic, inward-looking, racist and xenophobic, it’s not a cause for celebration, is it?” He’s at pains to point out that it’s not an anti-English song. “This is country-wide. It could be called Scottish Town. It’s a horror show, what’s happening. There’s such a sadness. It’s a song about wanting equality. It’s defnitely not a put-down.”
Gillespie is cautious about airing his politics when it comes to Scotland. Ne refers to the independence debate as “interesting” but is careful about upsetting his old man, Bob, a former Glasgow Labour Party candidate. “Families can be divided by these things, and I have to watch what I say,” says this sober wild man of rock’n’roll, getting his rocks off treading carefully through middle age. “Nationalism scares me. But I think independence is going to happen. And if it does, I support it. I’d love Icotland to be a social democratic, liberal, free-thinking outward-looking country, a fairer, more inclusive society.” He’d similar hopes for Labour at the last UK election in 2019. “I went to see Jeremy Corbyn at Union Chapel in Islington [in North London] the night before the election. It was like being at a Clash concert in 1977. Everybody there wanted to change the world for the better. “All the young people I knew were really behind Corbyn, and it inspired me, that that radical thinking and spirituality was still out there. “Corbyn wasn’t charismatic, but his movement was incredible. One thing I’m sure about is that the next 15 years on these islands are going to be monumental.”

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - 02 July 2021 - Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes U.K. Release Date
Notes: Collabration LP.
Chase It Down
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Martin Duffy - Piano/Keyboards
Darrin Mooney - Drums
Johnny Hostile (Savages) - Bass
-
Download
CD
Red Coloured Vinyl LP
Blue Coloured Vinyl LP
Clear transparent Coloured Vinyl LP
Chase It Down
English Town
Remember We Were Lovers
You Heart Will Always Be Broken
Stones of Silence
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Self-Crowned King of Nothingness
You Can Trust Me Now
Living A Lie
Sunk In Reverie
Notes: Collaboration with former Savages singer Jehnny Beth. They met in 2015 and began writing together in 2017, Paris, France. Bobby wrote the lyrics on a acoustic guitar. Jehnny worked through ideas with her boyfriend Johnny Hostile too. Primal Scream members worked on the project too. The LP was announced 31 March 2021. Jehnny Beth released his first solo LP 'To Love Is To Live' in 2020.
Jenny said: “In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,” Beth said in a statement back in March about the story of ‘Utopian Ashes’. “But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation. The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters.”
From 17 March 2016 - Kev Geoghegan's BBC article: Bobby said: "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."...
From 10 October 2021 12.00 BST Sunday - The Observer, Guardian Newspaper Bobby Gillespie Interview by Barbara Ellen: BG: Making Utopian Ashes felt very vulnerable, country soul. All the boys from Primal Scream play on it. I wrote lyrics on acoustic guitar, then worked through ideas with Jehnny Beth and her boyfriend, Johnny Hostile.
June 2023 - Louie Duffy said: At the same time Dad was also stressing about not being able to pay his previous year’s tax bill of £8,000. Friends did offer to lend him the money but he was too proud to accept this help. He was very angry to be in this position because he said Bobby Gillespie still owed him money - having never paid Dad for playing on his solo album “Utopian Ashes” the previous year - I remember Dad going up on the train to London many times to work on that album....

02 July 2021 - NME Magazine, article by Charlotte Krol : Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie on “completely destructive” impact of Brexit on young acts. He said it's "destroyed any hopes of chances for young musicians".
Bobby Gillespie has spoken about the impact of Brexit on young musicians.
The Primal Scream frontman said in a new interview that it has “destroyed any hopes of chances for young musicians that are trying to make it”. He told the BBC: “I think Brexit is completely destructive to creative arts. But what do you expect?”
The Scottish rocker was speaking to the outlet while promoting his new collaborative album, ‘Utopian Ashes‘, with French soloist Jehnny Beth, also of Savages fame. Gillespie went on to say that young British working class musicians are not being given the same opportunities that he had when he started drumming for The Jesus And Mary Chain in the mid ’80s and, later that decade, founding Primal Scream. He claimed that the end of free further education, squatters’ rights and certain benefits by Tory and Labour governments, as well as the new plan to cut university funding for creative subjects by nearly 50 per cent, were also to blame for dwindling opportunities.
“The only way they [young artists] can survive is to stay at home with their parents or take zero-hours jobs,” added Gillespie.
“People will still be creative, because young people have these creative ideas, and they will express their generation’s hopes, fears, desires, lusts and original ideas – and no government is going to stop that. But they’ve made it harder.” Gillespie added that he thinks the UK is “sleepwalking into disaster” and that a “culture war narrative” is now serving as “a huge distraction”.
The interview follows recent news that Gillespie and Beth have announced will head out on a run of live shows in support of their forthcoming record. The two musicians will play across the UK in November including a set at the inaugural Pitchfork Festival London. They’ll also play its sister event, Pitchfork Festival Paris a few days later.

22 Thursday-25 July 2021 Sunday - Standon Calling 2021, Standon Lordship, Standon
Notes: Cancelled, again, due to COVID-19. See July 2022 for rescheduled show. The festival’s organisers had been working on the development of a Covid transmission risk assessment system but the U.K's health secretary Sajid Javid delayed the COVID easing.

30 July 2021 Friday - 01 August 2021 Sunday - Low Festival, Benidorm, Spain
Notes: Cancelled due to COVID-19.

06 August 2021 Friday - 08 August 2021 Sunday - Bingley Weekender, Bingley
Notes: Cancelled due to COVID-19.

09 August 2021 Tuesday - Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Glasgow, Scotland
Notes: Cancelled due to COVID-19?
10 August 2021 Wednesday - Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Glasgow, Scotland
Notes: Cancelled due to COVID-19?

August 2021 - Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth are in France promoting the new LP

August 2021 - Primal Scream rehearsal
Notes: The first time the band play together in the same room since 2020.

17 August 2021 Tuesday - "Where The Nightingale Sang..." Arena, Wembley, London, * Supporting: Liam Gallagher
Notes: Primal Scream's return to the stage after the COVID-19 pandemic lifts it's restrictions on large social gatherings in the U.K.
Liam Gallgher (Oasis) organised benefit/tribute show "For NHS Workers & Their Families". Primal Scream supported and Black Honey first on stage.
From 10 October 2021 12.00 BST Sunday - The Observer, Guardian Newspaper Bobby Gillespie Interview by Barbara Ellen: BG: In August, we did the NHS frontline workers’ benefit gig at the O2, with Liam Gallagher headlining. It was strange. I hadn’t done anything since 2019… It was like being a football player who hadn’t been in training and suddenly you’re playing a game. It took me a few songs to get my sea legs, to start to enjoy it.
I’d only had a one-day rehearsal with the band. I’d been doing promo in France for the record I just did, Utopian Ashes, with Jehnny Beth, and I had to self-isolate…
Making Utopian Ashes felt very vulnerable, country soul. All the boys from Primal Scream play on it. I wrote lyrics on acoustic guitar, then worked through ideas with Jehnny Beth and her boyfriend, Johnny Hostile.
Irvine Welsh: It’s very good, very different, it touches on another side to you.
BG: Thank you. I wanted to get to the heart of adult relationships, to make an adult record that was appropriate to my age. I’ve always wanted to be a better songwriter, a better lyricist. In the past, I could be quite codified about what I wrote to protect myself. From my background, you hid what you felt, you didn’t want to be ridiculed or mocked.

11 September 2021 - TRNSMT Festival, Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Swastika Eyes / Can't Go Back / Kill All Hippies / Higher Than The Sun / Come Together / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Rescheduled date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Broadcast: BBC
Bootleg: BBC Pro-Shot DVD-R 58:24 - Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Swastika Eyes / Can't Go Back / Kill All Hippies / Higher Than The Sun / Come Together / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Bootleg: Audio from Pro-Shot Video

17 September 2021 Friday - Screamadelica 30th Anniversary Edition
Screamadelica - Double Picture Disc Vinyl (Initially priced at £34.99)
The Screamadelica Singles Boxset - 10 Disc 12inch Vinyl Boxset (Initially priced at £129.99)
Disc 1
Loaded
I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have
Ramblin' Rose (Live in NYC)
Disc 2
Loaded (Terry Farley Remix)
I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have
Ramblin' Rose (Live in NYC)
Disc 3
Come Together (Terry Farley Extended Mix)
Come Together (Andy Weatherall Extended Mix)
Disc 4
Come Together (The Hypno Tone Brain Machine Mix)
Come Together (BBG Mix)
Disc 5
Higher Than the Sun (12" Mix)
Higher Than the Sun (American Spring Mix)
Disc 6
Higher Than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)
Higher Than the Orb
Disc 7
Don't Fight It, Feel It (12" Version)
Don't Fight It, Feel It (Scat Mix)
Disc 8
Don't Fight It, Feel It (Graham Massey Mix)
Don't Fight It, Feel It (Instrumental)
Disc 9 (Dixie Narco)
Movin' On Up
Stone My Soul
Carry Me Home
Screamadelica
Disc 10
Shine Like Stars (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Shine Like Stars (Instrumental)
Notes: The releases were promoted from 29 July 2021.
Boxset media "12-inch singles box features nine replicas of the singles from the original campaign, all pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, as well as a tenth disc, which consists of a previously unheard remix (and accompanying instrumental) of 'Shine Like Stars' by the album's late and beloved producer Andrew Weatherall. The box also features three art prints by the album's cover artist Paul Cannell and a download code."

17 September 2021 Friday - Isle of Wight Festival, Newport, Isle of Wight
Notes: Rescheduled date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

01 October 2021 - Fender 30th Anniversary Screamadelica Stratocaster Guitar Release
Notes: Prices started from £1,199.
An exclusive to guitarguitar was the 'Fender Custom Shop 30th Anniversary Screamadelica Stratocaster Masterbuilt by Greg Fessler'. This model was handpainted and customised by Greg. It was available to buy for £19,999. The specifcation included: No Expense Spared. This Masterbuilt model is extremely limited and has been crafted to the highest levels of excellence. Not only does it feature hand-painted artwork but the guitar itself is also a work of art. Paul Cannell Screamadelica artwork. Hand-painted by Pamelina. Masterbuilt by Greg Fessler. Exclusive to guitarguitar. Colour matched for authenticity. Handwound Fat 60s pickups. 63 Strat Style "C" neck.
They also released a custom guitar pick set with the image on the guitar picks. A custom foot pedal, again adorned with the logo.
Regarding the 'generic' release guitar:
Body - Alder, Neck - Maple, Neck Shape - Modern C, Fingerboard - Pau Ferro, Scale - 25.5", Radius - 9.5", Frets - 22 Medium Jumbo, Nut - Synthetic Bone, Nut Width - 1.650", Pickups Vintage-Style '60s Single-Coil Strat Set, Bridge - 2 Point Synchronised Tremolo, Tuners - Vintage Style.
Controls - Volume, Tone Neck/Middle, Tone Bridge, 5 Position Blade.
The Limited Edition 30th Anniversary Screamadelica Stratocaster from Fender celebrates 30 years since the release of Primal Scream's highly successful album "Screamadelica". For many, this hugely impactful record represents a specific time in life; transporting them back to when the band fused together their indie/rock style with influences of acid house to produce a new and exciting sound. The guitar features the now iconic artwork, making it a must-have for Primal Scream fans! It is by no means just great to look at though; this guitar has excellent specifications such as a comfortable Modern C shaped maple neck and 22 Medium Jumbo frets. It is more than capable of pro level performances and studio recording sessions.
Whether fuelled by a deep nostalgia or celebrating the impact that Primal Scream has made, this is a Stratocaster that we fully recommend taking advantage of before it is too late to do so!
Screamadelica Artwork: Originally painted by Paul Cannell, the bold colour combination of red, yellow and blue used for the album cover really pops out. Who would have known that it would work so well on a guitar! With the pickguard and pots even included, it looks fantastic!

October 2021 - Bobby Gillespie photographed for the Observer New Review by David Vintiner.
Notes: Tenement Kid promo shots.

10 October 2021 12.00 BST Sunday - The Observer, Guardian Newspaper Bobby Gillespie Interview by Barbara Ellen
Notes: Tenement Kid promo, Bobby is interviewed with Irvine Welsh. See Media for the interview.

13 October 2021 - Midnight Meets With Colin Murray, BBC Radio 5 Live - Bobby Gillespie
Notes: The podcast was available for over a year.
Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which was on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am or was available via the BBC Sounds app.
"Primal Scream founder and singer talks to Colin about watching the 1970s Brazilian team training in Glasgow, the decline of the B-side, The Jesus and Mary Chain 'replacing him' with a drum machine when he left the band, and celebrating being working class in his new memoir"
Official: MP3 BBC Podcast Download

15 October 2021 - Demodelica U.K. Release Date
Design by Matthew Cooper, art direction by Bobby Gillespie.
Band photography by Grant Fleming.
Cover painting by Paul Cannell. Higher Than The Sun - oil on canvas, 117cm x 149cm, by kind permission of Dick Green.
"Most of these demos were produced by Andrew Innes at his home studio on the Isle Of Dogs and at the band's studio in Hackney in 1990. Jam and Eden Studio demos were produced by the band in 1991" Booklet written by Jon Savage - July 2021.
CD (Initially priced at £10.99)
Cassette (Official Primal Scream Store Website Exclusive. £11)
Vinyl (Double Vinyl, initially priced at £24.99)
SIDE A
1. Come Together (Jam Studio Monitor Mix)
2. Damaged (Hackney Studio Demo)
3. Movin’ On Up (Hackney Studio Demo)
SIDE B
1. Higher Than The Sun (Isle Of Dogs Home Studio)
2. Higher Than The Sun (Jam Studio Monitor Mix)
3. I’m Coming Down (Isle Of Dogs Home Studio)
4. I’m Coming Down (Jam Studio Monitor Mix)
SIDE C
1. Don’t Fight It, Feel It (Isle Of Dogs Home Studio)
2. Don’t Fight It, Feel It (Isle Of Dogs Hypnotone Mix)
3. Don’t Fight It, Feel It (EMI Publishing Studio Mix)
4. Inner Flight (Hackney Studio Vocal Mix) (Hackney Studio 'Vocal Melody')
5. Inner Flight (Henry Accapella Jam Studio)
6. Inner Flight (Jam Studio Monitor Mix)
SIDE D
1. Shine Like Stars (Jam Studio Monitor Mix)
2. Shine Like Stars (Eden Studios Demo)
3. Screamadelica (Eden Studios Demo)
Notes:
2022 - Demodelica Japanese Release Date
Notes: Included an exclusive bonus track.

14 October 2021 - Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid U.K. Release
ISBN 9781474622066 Publisher: Orion Publishing Co. Binding: Hardback. Publication date: 14 October 2021. Dimensions: 23.6cm x 16.0cm x 4.0cm. Page count: 432 pages. I have a conflicting White Rabbit publication date for 28 October 2021, maybe this was one of many variants they released.

Hardback Limited First edition “Independent record store's edition”. Limited to 500 copies. First page was hand numbered and then signed by Bobby. It was stamped as Independent Record Store Exclusive Edition on the same page. Specially designed endpapers, Bespoke green slipcase.

Hardback Limited First edition “White Rabbit Collector’s Edition” Limited to 1000 copies. Hang signed by Bobby. Hand numbered, Lyric stamp, Specially designed endpapers, Bespoke red slipcase. It was available through White Rabbit stores.
Notes: Bobby's first book. It was voted Rough Trade Book of the Year.
Promo read "Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID begins in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath’s brutal slum clearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers’ apprentice, Bobby’s rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott’s mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with ‘the holy spirit of rock n roll’ his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then Primal Scream. Building like a breakbeat crescendo to the Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall in an East Sussex field, as the ‘80s bleed into the ‘90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nation’s consciousness, TENEMENT KID closes with the release of Screamadelica , the album often credited with ‘starting the ‘90s’. A book filled with the joy and wonder of a rock n roll apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of fin de siecle British pop, Bobby Gillespie’s memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house."
“It is titled Tenement Kid as I spent the first 10 years of my life living in one,” “I am very proud of it. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.”
Courtney Love said: ‘Gillespie is rock and roll’s Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world’s great bands. Couldn’t put down’
July 2021 - Uncut Magazine/Website - 20 May 2021 - “Where does this rage come from, this suspicious nature , this anger , this cynicism ?”: How does the memoir fit into this more general period of reflection? I’m not sure. The book runs from when I was born in the ’60s up to 1991. It’s really about a young, working-class person’s journey and the things that happened to me and inspired me along the way – both good and bad. I think the book is joyous and not too serious either, you know? I think I’m a person with a sense of wonder, and hopefully that comes across in the book. I really surprised myself in parts. I sent Lee Brackstone, my editor at White Rabbit, 240,000 words and he wanted to get down to 160,000. I wrote all the way up to 1998, 1999. I kept thinking, ‘Well, when does it fucking end?’ Lee was of the opinion from the very beginning that it should be two books. So, we’ll see. I don’t know.

16 October 2021 - Inheritance Tracks Podcast
Notes: The podcast was available for over a year. The band picked Waltzing Matilda by June Tabor, and Joe Hill by The Dubliners.
Official: MP3 Podcast Download

03 November 2021 - The Line-Up with Shaun Keaveny: Bobby Gillespie – Hedonism, Screamadelica & Cullen Skink Podcast
Notes:
Podcast episode Description: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie invites us into his musical brain to discover the sounds that make him tick at his dreamlike festival in the Scottish Highlands. Expect funk, reggae, folk, and some classic rock’n’roll as we sup on a traditional smoked fish soup. Bobby delves into his ‘pills and powders’ past to recall festivals gone by and shares how much music means to him, as does walking his dogs and listening to some quality vinyl.

2021 - Bobby Gillispie and Sky guest on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show
Bobby said: “I went to buy God Save The Queen… I was like, oh my god, this is just the greatest thing ever,”, “It was seditious you know, I wouldn't have used that term then… I listened to John Peel and apparently he played it twice before it was banned. Me and my brother listened to and we were so stimulated, detonated... I went to buy the record and I think I thought I was gonna get arrested.”

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - November 2021 - Pitchfork Festival, London
Notes: Not sure if this date was a rescheduled date due to the COVID-19 pandemic or if it was cancelled?
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - November 2021 - Pitchfork Festival, Paris
Notes: Cancelled?

Primal Scream - 19 November 2021 - Live At Levitation Release Date
The Reverberation Appreciation Society’s Live at Levitation series
Vinyl
19 November 2021 - Limited Edition Coloured Splatter Vinyl
Download
SIDE A - Jailbird / Accelerator / Kill All Hippies / Burning Wheel / Shoot Speed, Kill Light
SIDE B - Higher Than The Sun / Country Girl / Loaded / Movin' On Up
2015 - Levitation, Austin, Texas, USA
Notes: The gig was apparently pulled from the Levitation’s extensive archives.
The Jesus And Mary Chain are also due a release too. Priced at £19.99 released on several different coloured pressings. Initial release date was 19 November 2021 but I have seen conflicting coloured pressings dated 28 January 2022.

M - Decemember 2021 - Classic Rock Magazine - The Soundtrack Of My Life - 09 November 2021: Interview by Ian Fortnam
Notes: See Media for the Bobby Interview article.

2022

25 February 2022 - Kyle Meredith With...: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie on His New Memoir, Post-War England, and Being Anti-Fascist Podcast
Podcast episode Description: Primal Scream’s main man Bobby Gillespie sits down with Kyle Meredith to talk about his autobiography, Tenement Kid. The Scottish musician discusses growing up in post-war England with the fear of death around him, being anti-facist and an artist that stands up for causes, and being a feminist from a young age. Gillespie goes on to talk about the power of discovering Thin Lizzy and Ramones at 15, being a current fan of Kurt Vile and Kelly Lee Owens, and how the sequel to this book will spotlight his career through the '90s.

April 2022 - Martin Duffy got the all clear for prostate cancer
Notes:

29 April 2022 - Primal Scream sell the rights to half of their back-catalogue to BMG for five million pounds.
Primal Scream sold the rights to all 11 albums from 2016’s Chaosmosis all the way back to 1987’s Sonic Flower Groove, and will see the Germany-based music company (BMG) acquire a 50% stake in the band’s song rights, as well as other related rights.
BMG has acquired the rights to plenty of international acts recently, including Tina Turner, ZZ Top and Motley Crue, but they have said that Primal Scream are the first UK artists of their generation to strike such a rights deal. Alistair Norbury, BMG president of repertoire & marketing UK, said: “Primal Scream are one of the most influential bands of the past 30 years with a cultural resonance which continues today. We are delighted to become custodians of their work.”
The bitter deal would see Martin Duffy left with very little. Martin did not receieve a penny for the deal and was not consulted or even told about the offer.
Louie Duffy said: Dad had played on every Primal Scream album - had songwriting on at least two - but still the band chose not to offer him the opportunity to get his share, at a time they knew he really needed financial help. Although he only had a comparatively small amount of publishing, if he had been included in this sale it would have been life-changing for Dad. He could have cleared the debt he had built up during lockdown and been able to pay off some of the mortgage, relieving him of all of his money worries. When he asked about it, he was told by his manager - who is also the band’s manager - that “it wouldn’t be worth his solicitor’s fees pursuing it”.

present Screamadelica - 28 May 2022 Saturday - Wide Awake Festival, Windmill Stage, Brockwell Park, Brixton, London * Doors Open: 12:00, Stage Time: 21:00 * Ticket Price: £35 * Support Act(s): Amyl & The Sniffers, The Comet Is Coming, Fat White Family, Yard Act, Fatoumata Diawara, Katy J Pearson, Sorry and more.
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Dont Fight It, Feel It / Inner Flight / Come Together / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Coming Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars /
encore: Loaded (with Bagpipe player) / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Primal Scream headline the festival. There was about 4 more various sized stages. Movin' On Up started with a gospel coda. Loaded began with a bagpipe player playing solo in full traditional Scottish attire. I was there. The show was full of technical issues, especially the sound through the PA. The crowd did not seem to mind though and the band performed well. Bobby was dressed in white. There was some alternate arrangements to some of the classics too. This was technically the first date of the tour too. I got a red screamadelica T-Shirt which had the album sun on the front and the dates on the rear. The date on the shirt was only noted as Brockwell Park and did not mention the Wide Awake festival.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Wide Awake (LSB Records) 2 CD-R - CD1 - Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Dont Fight It, Feel It / Inner Flight / Come Together / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Coming Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars - CD2 - encore: Loaded (with Bagpipe player) / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks / Bonus Alternate Recording Sources: Movin' On Up [2] / Come Together [2] / Loaded (with Bagpipe player) [2] / Jailbird - Country Girl [2]
Video Bootleg: Amateur Audience Recording (with mixed audio matrix)

present Screamadelica - 22 June 2022 Wednesday - Fairview Park, Dublin, Ireland
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Dont Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / / Damaged / I'm Coming Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars / Loaded
Encore: Swasktika Eyes / "Happy Birthday Bobbie" / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 2 CDR (1:45:30)

24 June 2022 - Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Swastika Eyes / Skull X / Pills / Exterminator / Deep Hit of Morning Sun / English Town (Bobby & Jehnny Beth cover) / Beautiful Future / Jailbird / Come Together / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Deep Hit of Morning Sun was dedicated to Mark Lanegan. Louie Duffy, Martin's son, watched the show from the side of the stage.
Louie Duffy remembers: The last time I saw Dad play was at Glastonbury in June last year. It was the 50th anniversary of the festival and he had a felt trilby hat made especially for the occasion - in claret and blue - Aston Villa’s colours. I watched the gig from the side of the stage, Dad looked great and was on top form....
Broadcast: BBC iPlayer (Full set was available to stream)
Video Bootleg: Webstream - Ripped/Downloaded from BBC iPlayer - DVD-R
Bootleg: Webstream - Ripped/Downloaded from BBC iPlayer

Primal Scream present Screamadelica live in the big top - 01 July 2022 Friday - Queen's Park Recreation Ground, Glasgow, Scotland * Doors Open: 17:00 * Ticket Price: £47.50 * Support Act(s): The Mysterines, Lonelady
"I Belong to Glasgow" (Opening Tape) / Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded (with bagpipe player) - Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones cover) - Hey Jude (Beatles cover) / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl (with Mani) / Rocks (with Mani)
Notes: Sold Out Show. Tickets went on sale Friday, 17 September 2021. Bobby dedicated Screamadelica to Andrew Weatherall. Mani returns to play bass for the two final tracks of the night.

Primal Scream present Screamadelica live in the big top - 02 July 2022 Saturday - Queen's Park Recreation Ground, Glasgow, Scotland * Doors Open: 17:00 * Ticket Price: £47.50 * Support Act(s): Walt Disco, Lonelady
"I Belong to Glasgow" (Opening Tape) / Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded (with bagpipe player) / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl (with Mani) / Rocks (with Mani)
Notes: Additional date due to popular demand. Bobby dedicated Screamadelica to Andrew Weatherall.
Apparently Duffy “messed up” on stage during the show. The following morning, he was “told to leave the tour and get help”. Martin would not return to the tour or the band, he passed away 18 December 2022.
Martin's son Louie, aged 19, said in his June 2023 statement:
But just a week later, when the band played in Glasgow, he apparently drank too much and messed up. The next morning, the band (Gillespie and Innes) and the tour manager had a meeting with him and made him leave the tour, telling him to get help. The band had great reviews for that gig - I doubt fans would have even noticed the mistakes he made that night - Dad told me there had been times when other members of the band occasionally made mistakes without any consequences.
Dad admitted that he had drunk alcohol before the gig, he made no excuses, he was embarrassed about it but couldn’t believe that after one mistake, the band hadn’t even given him a warning. He told me that he begged them to give him a chance, told them it wouldn’t happen again but they refused - I know Dad - just a reprimand would have been enough to get him back on track. After he died, Andrew Innes told my Mum that the reason they got Dad to leave the tour was because “No one wants to pay to see a 60 year old man fall over on stage”. My Dad was only 55 and as far as the family have been told by people who know, he never once fell over on stage. After being forced off the tour, I literally saw Dad age 10 years in a matter of weeks. The band continued to pay him his session fees for the tour but by then I don’t think it was just about money worries for Dad, he had been a member of Primal Scream for the majority of his life, he had lost his identity....

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Simone Butler - Bass
Terry Miles - Keyboards
07 July 2022 - Soho House Festival, Gunnersbury Park, London * Doors Open: 14:00 * Stage Times: 19:25-20:15
(Incomplete) Swastika Eyes / "Unconfirmed" could be Skull X / "Unconfirmed" could be Pills / "Unconfirmed" could be Exterminator or Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Jailbird / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes:

Primal Scream present Screamadelica live - 08 July 2022 Friday - Piece Hall, Halifax * Support Act(s): Working Men's Club, LoneLady (Julie Ann Campbell).
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: 30th Anniversary Tour of Screamadelica.

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Simone Butler - Bass
Terry Miles - Keyboards
Primal Scream present Screamadelica live - 09 July 2022 Saturday - Screamadelica (live in the open air), Sounds Of The City, Castlefield Bowl, Manchester * Support Act(s): The Mysterines
"I Belong to Glasgow" (Opening Tape) / Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl (with Mani) / Rocks (with Mani)
Notes: Tickets went on sale 9am, 17 September 2021 Friday. Bobby introduces Mani ‘he’s a son of your city’.

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Simone Butler - Bass
Terry Miles - Keyboards
Primal Scream present Screamadelica live - 16 July 2022 Saturday - Alexandra Park, Alexandra Palace, London
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded (with bagpiper) / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird (with Johnny Marr) / Country Girl (with Johnny Marr) / Rocks (with Johnny Marr)
Notes: Tickets went on sale Friday, 17 September 2021. Go-Kart Mozart’s Terry Miles replaced Martin Duffy on keys.
Paul Cannell’s iconic sunken-eyed sun painting was emblazoned around the perimeter fence in Ally Pally’s gardens and on either side of the stage at the foot of the hill.
Bobby came onstage wearing the custom-tailored Alexander McQueen Screamadelica sleeve trouser suit and asked the audience “Are you ready for the electric church of rock ‘n’ roll?”. Bobby dedicated Shine Like Stars to Denise Johnson. During the encore they screened images of the band’s late guitarist Robert “Throb” Young riding a Harley Davidson. Johnny Marr joined the band for the last three tracks.

Bobby Gillespie
Andrew Innes - Guitar
Simone Butler - Bass
Terry Miles - Keyboards
present Screamadelica - 24 July 2022 Sunday - Standon Calling 2022, Standon Lordship, Standon, Hertfordshire * Doors Open: * Stage Times: 21:45
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars / Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: 2021's festival was cancelled due to torrential rain. Bobby came onstage wearing the custom-tailored Alexander McQueen Screamadelica sleeve trouser suit.
I have a conflicting setlist from songkick? The above setlist looks more appropiate.
Swastika Eyes / Skull X / Pills / Exterminator / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / English Town (Bobby & Jehnny Beth cover) / Beautiful Future / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Jailbird / Come Together / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks

present Screamadelica - 22 July 2022 Friday - Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, Wales * Support Act(s): Happy Mondays, DJ Peter Hook
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than the Sun / Shine Like Stars / Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: The venue was run like a festival, with strict, manned ‘In’ and ‘Out’ routes for areas like toilets and bars. The forward area of the audience was fenced-off from the rest, dubbed the ‘Golden Circle’, and sold for an upgraded price.
Bootleg: Audiece Recording ()

31 July 2022 - Low Festival 2022, Ciudad Deportiva, Guillermo Amor, Benidorm, Spain
Swastika Eyes / Skull X / Pills / Exterminator / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Beautiful Future / Jailbird / Come Together / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks

present Screamadelica - 18 August 2022 Wednesday - Zepp, Osaka, Japan
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks

present Screamadelica - 18 August 2022 Thursday - Club Diamond Hall, Nagoya, Japan
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks

present Screamadelica - 19 August 2022 Friday - Sonic Mania 2022, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan * Doors: * Stage Times: 1:10am-2:35am
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars / Loaded / Rocks

present Screamadelica - 21 August 2022 - Summer Sonic 2022, Mountain Stage, ZOZO Marine Stadium & Makuhari Beach Park, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan * Doors: * Stage Times: 20:15-22:10
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: 21 or 22 August?
Bootleg: Soundboard - Summer Sonic 2022 (24bit Digital Remastered, Made In Japan. Date noted as 21 August 2022.) - Pro-CD-R - Opening / Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner Flight / Screamadelica / Damaged - CD2 - I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars / Loaded / Swastika Eyes / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks

26 August 2022 - Victorious Festival 2022, Southsea Common, Portsmouth * Doors Open: 11:00 * Stage Times: 13:00-14:00
Swastika Eyes / Skull X / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / English Town (Bobby & Jenny Beth cover) / Come Together / Jailbird / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks

28 August 2022 - TOdays Festival, Spazio 211, Turin, Italy * Doors Open: 18:00 * Stage Times: 22:45-23:55
Swastika Eyes / Skull X / Pills / Exterminator / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / English Town (Bobby & Jenny Beth cover) / Jailbird / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks
encore: Loaded

17 September 2022 - Our Fest Xacobeo 2022, Expourense, Ourense, Spain
Swastika Eyes / Skull X / Pills / Exterminator / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / English Town (Bobby & Jenny Beth cover) / Beautiful Future / Jailbird / Come Together / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks

31 October 2022 - Primal Scream and Dexys - Enough Is Enough U.K. Release Date
Written by Kevin Rowland/Bobby Gillespie.
Enough Is Enough! 5:32 - Primal Scream and Dexys.
Notes: Primal Scream and Dexys joined forces to support railway workers embroiled in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
After a plea from from the RMT union Twitter account to Dexy's Kevin Rowland an amazing collaboration was born between Primal Scream and Dexys to create a fund raiser with an original song. Enough Is Enough was inspired by both the RMT and the nascent Enough Is Enough campaign.
Available to download for £1 through bandcamp. The Digital Track, Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. All proceeds from the single went directly to the RMT Dispute Hardship Fund (Rail, Maritime and Transport union). RMT General secretary Mick Lynch, appeared on the track.
Douglas Hart, former Jesus And Mary Chain bassist, produced the promo video.
From 01 November 2022 09:52 Tuesday - The Independent (independent.co.uk) by Alan Jones: A song has been released in support of railway workers embroiled in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
The song – by Primal Scream and Dexys – is called Enough Is Enough, and has been produced in collaboration with the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.
General secretary Mick Lynch, who makes a guest appearance on the track, said the union was pleased by the support from musicians like Kevin Rowland, Sean Read, Bobby Gillespie and former Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart – who has produced a hard-hitting video to go with the song. The union is staging a fresh wave of strikes from Saturday, which will cause further travel chaos. Mr Lynch said: “As we go into further strike action this Saturday this sort of solidarity, which these talented musicians gave completely free of charge, is an indication of the huge support we are getting from across the country.
“All the money from this single will go directly to our dispute fund, which we are using as part of our battle for justice in the workplace. “It’s time for the Government to stop interfering and let us negotiate a settlement with the employers,” he said.
Dexys frontman Kevin Rowland said: “It is clear to millions that something is very wrong when millionaires get ever richer while workers are told to accept poverty. “As we say in the song, the media sets out to confuse people with lies and divide us with side issues like Brexit and culture wars while all we are really getting is endless austerity and cuts.”
05 October 2022 - RMT @RMTunion tweeted: Music legends back @RMTunion strike action: Rail union RMT has welcomed support for Saturday’s strike (October 8) from artists from @ScreamOfficial , @DexysOfficial and the Jesus and Mary Chain. #SupportRailWorkers...
01 November 2022 RMT @RMTunion tweeted: New Release Day @RMTunion is proud and honoured to today be releasing new music by @ScreamOfficial and @DexysOfficial . Enough Is Enough! is available to download from Bandcamp with all proceeds going to the RMT Dispute Hardship Fund

18 December 2022 Sunday - Martin Bernard Duffy passes away
R.I.P. 1967 - 2022, he was aged 55. Martin died at his home in Brighton, East Sussex. He was conscious when his son, Louie (19), found him on the kitchen floor. The coroner, Dr Karen Henderson, concluded his accidental death had resulted from alcohol intoxication and multiple skull fractures after a fall. The inquest also heard that Martin had been diagnosed with prostate cancer during lockdown.
Bobby Gillespie announced online, From primalscreamofficial instagram page:
Hard to write this. We never know how to speak around death other than polite platidudes. All I want to say is that our soul brother Martin Duffy passed away on Sunday. He suffered a brain injury due to a fall at his home in Brighton. We in Primal Scream are all so sad. I've known Martin since he was a teenager in Felt. He played keyboards on every album of ours from the first to the last. Finally joining the band in 1991. Martin was a very special character. He had a love and understanding of music on a deep spiritual level. Music meant everything to him. He loved literature and was well read and erudite. An autodidact. A deep thinker, curious about the world and other cultures. Always visiting museums in every city we played or looking for Neolithic stones in remote places. Opinionated and stubborn in his views. He could play piano to the level where he was feted not just by his peers in British music, but old school master American musicians such as James Luther Dickinson, Roger Hawkins & David Hood & producer Tom Dowd. I witnessed a session at Abbey Rd in 1997 for a Dr John album where his record company had assembled a bunch of young Indie Brit musicians where Mac Rebenac ( Dr John ) seemed bored and uninterested in the session until Martin started playing, then suddenly the good Dr started knocking some funky piano chops and I instantly knew it was because his ears had pricked up when he heard Martin play and the session at last came alive. Martin was the most musically talented of all of us. His style combined elements of country, blues and soul, all of which he had a God given natural feel for. He never played the same thing twice, ever. He was all about 'the moment', better have that 'record' button on when Duffy was on fire. His timing was unique, funky and ALWAYS behind the beat. George Clinton also dug Martin. I remember a session in Chicago where George said to him " go to church Duffy !" , and he did. Martin was also in possession of a unique wit. He had a swift eye for the absurd, the surreal and the ridiculous. He lived to laugh and play music. He was loved by all of us in the Scream. A beautiful soul. We will miss him.
Bobby Gillespie

Martin Duffy was born May 1967 in Birmingham in May 1967. He joined Felt aged 16 after answering an advertisement, placed by the group’s frontman Lawrence, that read: “Do You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?” Felt released 10 albums and 10 singles in their 10 years together, apparently this was the aim for singer Lawrence.
He played on Primal Scream's first two lps and he officially joined them ater Felt split, 1989, Primal Scream and stepped in to play for The Charlatans in 1996 following the death of keyboard player Rob Collins. The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess said Duffy was “actually the only musical genius I have ever met… me and [My Bloody Valentine’s] Kevin Shields sat up all night once with open mouths praising his natural ability,” he told the Quietus.
20 December 2022 08:50am Tim Burgess tweeted:
Another tragic loss of a beautiful soul. Martin Duffy stepped in to save the Charlatans when we lost Rob – he played with us at Knebworth and was a true friend. He toured with me in my solo band too - he was a pleasure to spend time with. Safe travels Duffy.
Primal Scream bassist Simone Marie Butler also paid tribute: “You would struggle to find a more genuine, gifted, funny, kind hearted, caring, naturally talented person who played like no one else … Your light will always burn Duffy. Everyone who knew him loved, everyone who met him loved him. He was a pure genuine soul.”
Happy Mondays singer Rowetta shared a series of heartbreak emojis, while former Oasis guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs tweeted: “Sad sad news Tim.”
Other tributes came from Gruff Rhys, singer for Welsh band Super Furry Animals, Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite and the band Dexys Midnight Runners.
20 December 2022 Dexys & Dexys Midnight Runners Official @DexysOfficial tweeted: Very sorry to about the passing of the lovely and supremely talented Martin Duffy. Love to Martin's family and @ScreamOfficial from Dexys x
Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre was among the musicians to remember Duffy, alongside Asian Dub Foundation, Gruff Rhys and Dodgy.

Louie Duffy, 19 at the time, shared a statement as part of an inquest that said after Duffy was told to leave the band and get help for his alcohol dependency, he began drinking even more. He said that Duffy was in debt as he was unable to tour during the pandemic, and claimed that he had been left out of a £5m deal to sell some of Primal Scream’s back catalogue to BMG. “My dad died in debt and I know how badly this affected him in the last year of his life,” he said. He said Duffy “wasn’t consulted or even told about” the deal despite playing “on every Primal Scream album” Duffy’s son added: “But still the band chose not to offer him the opportunity to get his share, at a time they knew he really needed financial help.” “It was during lockdown when things started going wrong for dad. No gigs meant no income and he got into debt. He was also diagnosed with prostate cancer.”
09 June 2023 Friday 08:20 - Jacob Stolworthy reported: Martin Duffy’s son shares devastating details of Primal Scream musician’s final days. Son of the late Primal Scream keyboardist claims that the band’s ‘method’ of ‘helping’ Duffy backfired and left him ‘distraught and upset’.
Primal Scream musician Martin Duffy died after becoming “distraught and upset” when he was suspended from the Scottish rock band band, his son has claimed.
Duffy, who played keyboard for the band for more than 30 years, died in December aged 55. His former bandmate, frontman Bobby Gillespie, announced his death on social media, writing: “Hard to write this. We never know how to speak around death other than polite platitudes. All I want to say is that our soul brother Martin Duffy [has] passed away. He suffered a brain injury due to a fall at his home in Brighton. We in Primal Scream are all so sad.”
It has now been revealed that Duffy tripped over and suffered serious head injuries after drinking approximately two bottles of wine.
He was conscious when his son, Louie, found him on the kitchen floor of his East Sussex flat, but he had suffered multiple skull fractures.
Louie, 19, shared a statement as part of an inquest that said after Duffy was told to leave the band and get help for his alcohol dependency, he began drinking even more. He said that Duffy was in debt as he was unable to tour during the pandemic, and claimed that he had been left out of a £5m deal to sell some of Primal Scream’s back catalogue to BMG.
“My dad died in debt and I know how badly this affected him in the last year of his life,” he said. He said Duffy “wasn’t consulted or even told about” the deal despite playing “on every Primal Scream album” Duffy’s son added: “But still the band chose not to offer him the opportunity to get his share, at a time they knew he really needed financial help.”
Louie, who said his dad was a “functioning alcoholic”, added: “It was during lockdown when things started going wrong for dad. No gigs meant no income and he got into debt. He was also diagnosed with prostate cancer.”
After lockdown restrictions were lifted, Duffy played with Primal Scream at Glastonbury Featival 2022, but a week later, “messed up” on stage during a show in Glasgow. The following morning, he was “told to leave the tour and get help”.
Louie said in his statement: “The band told him he would not be getting his job back unless he stopped drinking. He became very upset. He seemed completely devastated. “After this, he started drinking really heavily every day. I couldn’t stop him. It was frightening. I had never seen him like this before. He stopped contacting people and I was really worried about him.” He added that “after being forced off the tour, I literally saw dad age 10 years in a matter of weeks”.
Louie condemned his dad’s bandmates, including Gillespie, for “demoting” Duffy despite being a member for three decades. “The band’s belief in the ‘tough love’ they thought they were qualified to dish out to dad when he was at his most vulnerable only made things worse,” he said. “I understand they thought they were helping him but this method backfired, it made dad become completely overwhelmed.”. See 06 June 2023 for Louie Duffy's statement.

2023
February 2023 Thursday - Bobby and Kate Moss attend Vivienne Westwood's memorial service ''Dame Vivienne'', Southwark Cathedral, London
Notes: Iconic punk legend, environmental activist and designer extraordinaire passed away in December 2022 aged 81.
Bobby Gillespie wore a classic black suit, The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, who worked at Dame Vivienne’s and Malcolm McLaren’s boutique in punk’s early days, wore a dark coat and patterned scarf. Nick Cave and his fashion designer wife Susie Cave and many more attended the funeral.

23 February 2023 Thursday 19:30 - The Stephen McCauley Show, BBC Radio Ulster
Notes: Show included Primal Scream, The National and Arborist.

28 May 2023 Sunday - Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire * Doors: * Stage Times: * Support Act(s): The Pretenders
Come Together / 2013 / Skull X / Sideman / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Big Jet Plane / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Jailbird / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Live debut for Sideman?
Notes: Bobby watched The Pretenders from the side of the stage. Big Jet Plane is played live for the first time, Free is played live for the first time in over 12 years. During Deep Hit Of Morning Sun a photo tribute to Mark Lanegan is projected behind the band. The set ends with fireworks.

03 June 2023 - The Great Estate Festival, Scorrier House, Cornwall * Doors: * Stage Times: 21:30-23:15
Come Together / 2013 / Skull X / Sideman / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Big Jet Plane / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Jailbird (attempt) / Jailbird / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Second time Big Jet Plane is played live for over 12 years. Jailbird is interuppted by a power failure, once fixed the band restart the song and continue the set.

06 June 2023 - Louie Duffy's statement regarding the death of his father Martin Duffy
Notes: Martin died 18 December 2022.
Louie Duffy's press statement:
This is the personal witness statement of LOUIE DUFFY (son, aged 19) submitted as evidence to the West Sussex, Brighton and Hove Coroner for the Inquest on 6th June 2023, into the death of MARTIN DUFFY (died 18 December 2022, aged 55). The statement, as given to the court of HM Coroner, Ms Penelope Schofield, is as follows: My Dad, Martin Duffy, was born and grew up in Birmingham and although living in London and then Hove for most of his life, was a very proud Brummie. He was a passionate and life-long
supporter of Aston Villa football club. Some of my earliest and happiest memories are going to matches together, which we did right up to his death.
Dad apparently answered an ad when he was 16 years old asking: “Do you want to be a Rock‘n Roll Star?” He was a star in the true sense of the word and not just because of his musical talent. He could play many instruments but he also had a brilliant mind and many interests.
Dad never chased fame, it just came with the job, he was quite a private person. His good friend Tim Burgess of the band ‘The Charlatans’ described Dad in his tribute as “the only musical genius” he has ever met.
Reading the many tributes to Dad in the press it is also clear how loved he was as a person and this does not surprise me. He was down to earth, had time for everyone and you could not help but like him: he was approachable, humble, a kind and genuine person who was without ego.
He also had the funniest, most absurd humour which gave so much joy to others, he made me laugh so much, this is what I will miss the most.
Despite his fame, Dad was never arrogant and always put everyone at ease, treating everyone with respect. He was a true gentleman. Rock ‘n roll posturing never interested Dad - he didn’t need it - he was the real deal, a total original. Dad and I were very close. I knew him better than anyone and especially, as I got older, had many conversations with him. I am able to express exactly what he told me about how he felt.
Straight after Dad’s funeral I left on a pre-planned 3 month trip abroad, so I have had a lot of time to reflect. I want to be my Dad’s voice now because there were a series of circumstances leading up to his death which I, my family and Dad’s close friends all believe contributed to his sudden and rapid decline in the last months of his life.
My Dad had been a professional musician from the age of 18, first playing keyboards with the band ‘Felt’ in the 1980s when his talent was quickly recognised and he then became a respected member of the band Primal Scream for more than 30 years. This might lead people to believe that he was a wealthy man but this is not the case at all. My Dad died in debt and I know
how badly this affected him in the last year of his life. After joining the band, Dad had started out as an equal member of Primal Scream but he was
gradually cut out from getting any songwriting credits, then touring and merchandise profits, eventually just being paid per gig.
My Dad was so much more to the band than just a session man, his keyboards were an integral part of their sound on every album and he had always been a spokesperson, doing countless press interviews for the band over the years.
When I say ‘the band’, I mean Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes; everyone else in the band joined years later, don’t make the decisions and are also employed as session musicians. Dad said the money only really started coming in when Primal Scream did the 20th anniversary tour of their most successful album ‘Screamadelica’ in 2011 but he didn’t get to benefit from this as it was at this time that the band decided to demote him to only being paid as a session musician from then on.
Anyone who knew my Dad knew he was a drinker, in the band’s heyday in the early 90s, Primal Scream were as famous for their excess as they were for their music. I would say that Dad was alcohol dependent for many years; it didn’t help that alcohol is so freely available in the music industry. But he had a complicated relationship with alcohol, I know you don’t have to drink every day to still be an alcoholic - and Dad didn’t - I know this because I lived with him half of the time (after Mum & Dad’s divorce) and spoke to him most days when staying at my Mums. Dad was a ‘binge drinker’ when he would drink for two or three days in a row and then stop. He would also have long periods of sobriety. He had been a heavy smoker his whole life but managed to give up about five years ago, I would say that he took his health very seriously, He would think nothing of regularly doing 10 mile walks over the Downs.
Dad loved nature and photography and posted thousands of beautiful images on his private Instagram. Our fridge and kitchen cupboards at home looked like a health food shop with so many bottles of vitamins, he juiced every morning and cooked us really healthy meals. He loved his flat and especially enjoyed the garden. He kept our home clean and tidy and also took pride in his appearance, he was known for his large collection of hats. Dad was a functioning alcoholic who had a professional attitude to his work, in more recent years, not drinking before gigs, not letting it affect his erformances. He was very reliable, as far as I know, he never once missed a gig.
It was during lockdown when things started going wrong for Dad. No gigs meant no income and he got into debt. He was also diagnosed with prostate cancer during lockdown and despite the band knowing this, they hardly made any contact with him during this very difficult time. I remember Dad telling Bobby Gillespie on the phone that he was having to sign on for benefits to
get by as he had no savings but the band offered no support either emotional or financial. I saw how much this upset him.
After months of not working, the first gig after lockdown was the Bigfoot Festival in Warwickshire in June 2021. I remember it because Dad had just had the surgery for his cancer and still had a catheter and bag fitted. He insisted that he was fit to play but should never have attempted to do the gig, but by this time he was desperate for money. Dad was really nervous leading up to that gig, which he never normally was. He had post-op complications and was in constant pain, I will never forget how distressed he was by this.
There was a problem with the fitting of his catheter which meant it wasn’t working and he had to visit the A&E department at Hammersmith hospital during rehearsals in London, just a couple of days before the gig. Dad said he was in agony - but he would never have let the band down - and continued to do the gig but was so preoccupied trying to cope with his discomfort that it lead to him messing up on stage. Dad admitted that he had drunk alcohol before the gig but only to help him deal with the pain, he ended up having what he described as a ‘brain freeze’ on stage - a panic attack - and had struggled to play, something that had never happened to him before. This lead to the band suggesting that he go into ‘rehab’ but Dad was adamant that this was unnecessary as his issues were to do with his medical problems that day, but he did agree to go to alcohol counseling for a few months afterwards and was able to perform without incident at all subsequent gigs, a fact which has been confirmed by several people who worked with him.

Last year in spring 2022, Dad finally got the all clear for his cancer and he was very happy - we all were - it was such a relief after so many months of worry. But then, shortly after this, at the end of April, he read in the press that the band had sold half of their back catalogue to BMG - for what turned out to be five million pounds - and he didn’t receive a penny. He wasn’t consulted or even told about it. Dad had played on every Primal Scream album - had songwriting on at least two - but still the band chose not to offer him the opportunity to get his share, at a time they knew he really needed financial help.
Although he only had a comparatively small amount of publishing, if he had been included in this sale it would have been life-changing for Dad. He could have cleared the debt he had built up during lockdown and been able to pay off some of the mortgage, relieving him of all of his money worries. When he asked about it, he was told by his manager - who is also the band’s manager - that “it wouldn’t be worth his solicitor’s fees pursuing it”. It is clear that Dad’s interests were never properly managed on his behalf. Dad was understandably really shocked that he had been sidelined in this way, he did not live an extravagant life, as long as he could pay his monthly bills he was happy. But after this, I witnessed him really start to go downhill. He became depressed - he started smoking again - and started drinking more. He knew then that he was never going to get his pay day, a time when he didn’t have to worry so much about paying the bills. All of our family and Dad’s friends noticed this change in him and tried to support him but felt helpless. I can say without any doubt that the band’s total disregard of Dad’s circumstances directly impacted on his mental health. The last time I saw Dad play was at Glastonbury in June last year. It was the 50th anniversary of the festival and he had a felt trilby hat made especially for the occasion - in claret and blue - Aston Villa’s colours. I watched the gig from the side of the stage, Dad looked great and was on top form. But just a week later, when the band played in Glasgow, he apparently drank too
much and messed up. The next morning, the band (Gillespie and Innes) and the tour manager had a meeting with him and made him leave the tour, telling him to get help. The band had great reviews for that gig - I doubt fans would have even noticed the mistakes he made that night - Dad told me there had been times when other members of the band occasionally made mistakes without any consequences. Dad admitted that he had drunk alcohol before the gig, he made no excuses, he was embarrassed about it but couldn’t believe that after one mistake, the band hadn’t even given him a warning. He told me that he begged them to give him a chance, told them it wouldn’t happen again but they refused - I know Dad - just a reprimand would have been enough to get him back on track. After he died, Andrew Innes told my Mum that the reason they got Dad to leave the tour was because “No one wants to pay to see a 60 year old man fall over on stage”. My Dad was only 55 and as far as the family have been told by people who know, he never once fell over on stage. After being forced off the tour, I literally saw Dad age 10 years in a matter of weeks. The band continued to pay him his session fees for the tour but by then I don’t think it was just about money worries for Dad, he had been a member of Primal Scream for the majority of his life, he had lost his identity.
Last summer Dad was in a panic about the possibility of losing our home, which the band were fully aware of. Rather than offer him a small loan to clear his debts - so he could concentrate on getting well - when he contacted the manager, was just advised to either try and get equity released from his flat or to sell it if he couldn’t afford to pay his mortgage in the future. Dad did go ahead and put his flat on the market but this only added to his stress. So, not a good time for him to try and get sober with that kind of pressure, I don’t really know what they expected. At the same time Dad was also stressing about not being able to pay his previous year’s tax bill of £8,000. Friends did offer to lend him the money but he was too proud to accept this help. He was very angry to be in this position because he said Bobby Gillespie still owed him money - having never paid Dad for playing on his solo album “Utopian Ashes” the previous year - I remember Dad going up on the train to London many times to work on that album.

After having to leave the tour it was on the understanding that he would be able to return. The band offered for Dad go into rehab but he opted to go to AA instead and was doing really well. The 12 step programme in AA is a process, it takes time and requires total honesty. A few weeks before his death, when the band asked Dad whether he was still drinking, he told them
the truth, that he was attending AA, had cut down a lot but was still drinking occasionally. When I called Bobby Gillespie to tell him of Dad’s death, he explained to me how they had used the ‘tough love’ approach with Dad. I know this because I heard it, I saw it for myself. It amounted
to him and Andrew Innes phoning Dad and threatening him that he wouldn’t be allowed back to play the festivals this Spring. They told him he wouldn’t be getting his job back unless he stopped drinking completely. Bobby Gillespie actually told Dad that he “was finished”. What Dad needed was encouragement and hope. The band’s belief in the ‘tough love’ they thought they were ualified to dish out to Dad when he was at his most vulnerable, only made
things worse. I understand they thought they were helping him but this method backfired, it made Dad become completely overwhelmed.
Immediately after these two conversations, with the threat of losing his livelihood, I think Dad just gave up, which is why, despite having gone to a lot of AA meetings, he went on his final bender instead. He was a sensitive soul, the band had been his life for over 30 years and I saw that he was simply not able to cope anymore. During this time he became very emotional, Dad told me he felt totally unsupported by the band, he seemed completely devastated. After this he started drinking really heavily, every day, I couldn’t stop him. It was frightening, I had never seen him like this before. He stopped contacting people and I was really worried about him. This is why out of the blue I decided to go round to see him on the 15th December 2022 - the night of his accident - even though I wasn’t supposed to be staying with him that
night.
I got there at around midnight and found Dad lying on the kitchen floor, there was blood from an injury to the back of his head. There are steps down into our kitchen and it is clear from where he was lying that he had tripped on the steps and fallen backwards, hitting his head. Luckily Dad was conscious when I found him and knew I was there to help him, I don’t know
how long he had been on the floor. I was able to talk with him and comfort him. I helped him onto the sofa and called the ambulance but was told there would be a long wait as there was a backlog of calls. I knew Dad’s injury was serious because he wouldn’t stay still and kept getting up and falling over, I struggled to keep him calm, he was behaving very erratically and was confused. Over a period of 2 to 3 hours he deteriorated further, losing the use of his legs completely.
During this time I think I called the ambulance back around three times but each time they said they couldn’t come any quicker and suggested that I take Dad in to hospital myself but after he had lost the ability to walk, I knew this would be very difficult without a stretcher or wheelchair and I was scared of moving him without medical help.
I called my Mum as I didn’t know what to do and my Stepdad Neil came straight over but by the time he arrived, Dad had had a seizure and although still fully conscious, was mostly unresponsive. It was only after the seizure, when I called again, did they then blue light it and the ambulance came about half an hour later. When the paramedics were trying to move Dad, his legs gave way and he fell to the floor. He reached up his arms and the last words he spoke
were “Help me up”. He fought to live, I know he didn’t want to die. I went with Dad in the ambulance where he had another seizure, it was only when this happened that I just knew that he wasn’t coming back. I am so grateful I was there with Dad in his final hours and he wasn’t alone. At the hospital Dad was put into an induced coma and was on a ventilator. The neurologist
explained the results of his brain scans, he said his deterioration was due to the brain swelling, something that could not be stopped. He said the brain injury from the fall had been so catastrophic that Dad could not survive it - even if the ambulance had arrived straight away - it would have made no difference. This made me feel better as it took hours for help to arrive and
I had worried about whether there was more I could have done rather then just waiting for the ambulance.
We had a small and private cremation with just close family, which is what I wanted. The band did pay for the funeral - which I was grateful for as Dad left no money - but it’s so sad to know that this generosity wasn’t offered to Dad when he really needed it. His fellow musician and friend Steve Mason organised a gathering for friends to attend on the day. Only Dad’s good
friend Darren, the drummer in Primal Scream and crew members - past and present – from the group came to pay their respects.
Straight after Dad’s death, I had a couple of phone calls with Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes and was sent some photos of Dad on WhatsApp. I haven’t heard from them since.
In the publicity after Dad’s death, Bobby Gillespie was congratulated by many for his ‘beautiful’ tribute, in which he stated that Dad was “the most talented musician of all of us” which is high praise for a session musician. Dad had a very unique talent, the band described him as their “Soul Brother” but I think Dad actually was ‘the soul’ in Primal Scream. It took his death for his contribution to be acknowledged and for him to be given the respect he deserved.
I’ve seen on Instagram how Bobby Gillespie is always urging everyone to support the strikers - fair pay for the workers - and there is nothing wrong with that, Dad supported the strikers too, but not if at the same time you aren’t paying your own bandmate of over 30 years even a small share of the tour profits to make his life easier. As the band got older they did less touring and more one-off gigs which meant Dad was getting paid less and less, only earning around £40k a year for playing with Primal Scream, not a lot for someone with his talent and experience.
My Dad came from humble roots too, my Granddad - who died when Dad was 12 - worked in the British Leyland car factory in Birmingham and was a Shop Steward for the workers. Many bands start from humble beginnings but it seems to me that success and money can make some people lose touch with their roots - with reality - and when the greed kicks in, they lose their humanity. They end up caring more about their expensive designer clothes and buying holiday homes than for the welfare and mental health of the people who helped them achieve their success.
I am well aware that financial reward may not have saved Dad from himself - we will never know - but I do know that while the band were reaping the rewards from touring ‘Screamadelica’, a classic British album, he was having to live month to month - just being paid session fees to perform it - when in fact he had played such an important part in creating it. I know Dad found
this really insulting and not right. His 30 years of loyalty to Primal Scream was never repaid. I lost my Dad too soon, I know his death was an accident but I just wish he hadn’t died feeling so unappreciated and distraught about having to sell our home, he didn’t deserve that. I am so proud of Dad - and who he was - an authentic and good person. He was truly loved by so many people and along with his music, this love is his legacy.
He lived an incredible life and didn’t die in vain, his kidneys were successfully donated to two very sick recipients on long-term dialysis, giving them a chance to live healthy lives. I know Dad would have wanted this as his own Dad died from cancer of the kidneys and his uncle died on dialysis, waiting for a kidney transplant. This has brought comfort to me and my family.

30 June 2023 Friday - On The Mount Festival, Wasing, Reading
Come Together / 2013 / Skull X / Sideman / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Big Jet Plane / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Jailbird / Loaded / Movin' On Up / Country Girl / Rocks

02 July 2023 - I-Days Festival, Ippodromo Snai La Maura, Milan, Italy * Doors Open: 14:30 * Stage Times: 18:00-19:00
Movin' On Up / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Big Jet Plane / Suicide Bomb / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

08 July 2023 - Mad Cool Festival, Villaverde, Madrid, Spain
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Big Jet Plane / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

21 July 2023 - Release Athens Festival, Plateia Nerou, Piraeus, Athens, Greece * Doors Open: * Stage Times: 21:15-22:15
Movin' On Up / 2013 / Can't Go Back / Big Jet Plane / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Come Together / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

Primal Scream - 28 July 2023 - Reverberations (Traveling In Time) BBC Radio Sessions & Creation Singles 1985-86
Limited Edition Clear Vinyl LP with CD
Vinyl LP
Limited Edition CD (Initially limited to 1,500) £14.00 (Including VAT 20.0%) (Postage for one CD was a staggering £4.99! through the official Sandbag UK Vendors)
CD (Generic)

Tracks 1-11: BBC session recordings
1. Imperial
2. Velocity Girl
3. Feverclaw
4. Silent Spring
5. I Love You
6. Tomorrow Ends Today
7. Bewitched And Bewildered
8. Crystal Crescent’
9. Subterranean
10. Leaves
11. Aftermath
Tracks 12-16: Early Creation Records releases
12. All Fall Down
13. It Happens
14. Crystal Crescent
15. Velocity Girl
16. Spirea X
Notes: Pre-orders were available from 14 June 2023 Wednesday 17:00 and shipped from 28 July 2023. Initially released as a limited edition CD in a card sleeve with booklet, un-numbered though. Once the initial run sold out, they re-pressed the CD, a couple of months after, and it was no longer limited.
From primalscreamofficial instagram page: Bewitched and Bewildered’ (John Peel Session, May 1986) - “One of the best songs we have ever written. Why didn’t we record it for our debut album? We must’ve been mad at the time not to. Now you can listen & enjoy it in its full glory.” – Bobby Gillespie.
Media "Reverberations (Travelling In Time)’ is the debut Primal Scream album that never was: 16 perfectly formed pop nuggets weighing in at just under 35 minutes. Boasting eleven previously unreleased BBC session recordings plus all five songs from the band’s first two Creation Records singles.
This CD edition is limited to just 1500 copies worldwide and only available via this shop.
Each CD is beautifully packaged in a gatefold card wallet with specially commissioned artwork by by renowned British illustrator and designer Julie Verhoeven. The compact disc itself comes in a printed inner slip case and the gatefold wallet also contains a 24 page booklet with essays by Bob Stanley, Jim Beattie and Bobby Gillespie. The package includes 28 period photographs of the band.
‘Reverberations (Travelling In Time)’ is also available as limited black and clear vinyl editions - both exclusive to this shop."

04 August 2023 Friday - South Facing Festival, Crystal Palace Bowl, London * Doors Open: 16:00 * Ticket Price: * Support Act(s): The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Black Angels
Movin' On Up / Can't Go Back / 2013 / Sideman / Deep Hit Of Morning Sun / Big Jet Plane / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Come Together / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Joint headline set with Jesus & Marychain. Special souvineir programmes and posters were on sale.

05 August 2023 Saturday - Dreamland, Scenic Stage, Margate * Support Act(s): Happy Mondays
Movin' On Up / Can't Go Back / 2013 / Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators) / Swatstika Eyes / Big Jet Plane / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK /
Suicide Bomb / Come Together / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Dreamland is an amusement park by the sea. The venue has an indoor complex for live shows. Usually buying a ticket to the festival days includes free admission to the theme park rides, including the rollercoaster!.

12 August 2023 - Noroeste Festival, Playa de Riazor, A Coruna, Spain
Movin' On Up / Can't Go Back / 2013 / Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators) / Swatstika Eyes / Big Jet Plane / Free / It's Arlight, It's OK /
Suicide Bomb / Come Together / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Apparently the show times were recorded as 12:30am until 2am in the morning?

19 August 2023 - Beautiful Days Festival, Escot Park, Ottery Saint Mary, Devon * Doors Open: * Stage Time: 21:45-23:00
Movin' On Up / Can't Go Back / 2013 / Swatstika Eyes / Big Jet Plane / It's Arlight, It's OK / Come Together / Jailbird / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Sold Out Festival.

20 August 2023 - Camp Bestival, Weston Park, Shropshire

present screamadelica - 25 August 2023 Friday - Connect Festival, Royal Highland Showgrounds, Ingliston/Edinburgh, Scotland * Doors Open: * Support Act(s): Franz Ferdinand, Future Islands, Confidence Man, Kruder & Dorfmeister, DJ David Holmes
Movin' On Up / Slip Inside This House (The 13th Floor Elevators) / Don't Fight It, Feel It / Come Together / Inner FLight / Damaged / I'm Comin' Down / Higher Than The Sun / Shine Like Stars
encore: Loaded / Jailbird / Country Girl / Rocks
Notes: Second year of the Edinburgh based festival.

26 August 2023 Saturday - Wythenshawe Park, Wythenshawe, Manchester * Doors Open: 14:00 * Supporting: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Big Jet Plane / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

27 August 2023 Sunday - Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland * Supporting: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Big Jet Plane / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

01 September 2023 - Lindisfarne Festival, Beal Farm, Beal, Northumberland

02 September 2023 - Forwards Festival, Cilfton Downs, Bristol
Movin' On Up / Jailbird / Can't Go Back / Big Jet Plane / It's Arlight, It's OK / Suicide Bomb / Loaded / Country Girl / Rocks

November 2023 - Imelda Mounfield passes away
Notes: Imelda, wife of Mani, passed away, aged 52, after a three year battle with stage 4 bowel cancer.

05 December 2023 Tuesday- Imelda Mounfield's funeral, St Chad’s Church, Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester
Notes: Ian Brown, John Squire, Liam Gallagher, Clint Boon, Shaun Ryder, Rowetta, Martin Moscrop, Simon Moran, Irvine Welsh and Bobby Gillespie amongst others attended the funeral service. It was followed by a wake held at the Irish Heritage Centre in Cheetham Hill.
From 06 December 2023 17:42 - Manchester Evening News M.E.N Website: Liam Gallagher, Rowetta and Ian Brown amongst stars to pay respects to Imelda Mounfield at ‘beautiful’ funeral service. Imelda, the wife of Stone Roses' star Mani, was laid to rest at a service on Tuesday. Article By Adam Maidment.
Some of the biggest names in Manchester’s music scene came together to pay their respects following the funeral of Imelda Mounfield.
Imelda, the wife of Stone Roses’ star Mani, passed away at the age of 52 last month. Her death came just three years after she was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer. Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown was amongst those to pay tribute to the events agent, posting on social media: “RIP @imeldamounfield. GOD BLESS MANI and his boys X”
The funeral service was held on Tuesday (December 5) at St Chad’s Church on Cheetham Hill Road, near to the city centre. Hundreds of people are believed to have been in attendance, with well-known faces including Liam Gallagher, Shaun Ryder and Clint Boon.
Ian Brown, John Squire, Rowetta, Martin Moscrop, Simon Moran, Irvine Welsh and Bobby Gillespie also attended the service. It was followed by a wake held at the Irish Heritage Centre in Cheetham Hill.
Posting on social media following the service, Happy Mondays star Rowetta wrote: “Your Mani and all your loved ones did you proud today, Imelda Mounfield. Such a beautiful service. The church was beautiful and rammed full of all your family and friends."
She added: “Afterwards all the old heads turned out, Mani's band mates from the Roses and Primal Scream, Liam Gallagher, Mondays and so many more. Special thanks to Imelda's brother and nephew, and Mani's cousins who I met at Stone Roses Dublin for their kind words to me and Mani of course. “I loved her and she gave me so much love. I'll miss everything about her, we all will."
Imelda is survived by Mani, 61, and their two twin boys, aged ten. In recent years, the pair have helped raise huge sums of money for local charities thanks to a series of superstar auctions. The auctions, which have raised money for the likes of Maggie’s, The Christie Hospital, and The Stockport Charitable Trust, have sold celebrity items such as David Beckham’s football boots, signed drumsticks from Reni and a signed snare drum head from Zak and Ringo Starr.