Primal Scream
Primal Scream and Felt’s Martin Duffy: the gifted sideman who was endlessly adaptable
The exceptionally talented and dependable keyboardist could cope with whatever style was thrown at him – and bands remodelled their sound around him
Alexis Petridis
20, Dec, 2022 @4:21 PM
Martin Duffy: Primal Scream and Felt keyboardist dies in fall at home aged 55
Duffy died of a brain injury after falling at home, his Primal Scream bandmate Bobby Gillespie confirmed
Laura Snapes
20, Dec, 2022 @1:48 PM
Reel lives: how I tracked down the class of NME’s C86 album
In 1986 the NME’s 22-track cassette defined indie-rock for a new generation. Some bands featured, such as Primal Scream, became stars. But what became of Bogshed, the Mackenzies and the Shrubs?
Nige Tassell
08, Aug, 2022 @11:00 AM
Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie – piquantly preposterous
Primal Scream’s frontman indulges himself wildly in this overblown memoir. But underneath all the cobblers lurks a fascinating story
Alexis Petridis
15, Oct, 2021 @8:00 AM
Bobby Gillespie: ‘For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement … that stuff stays with you’
On the eve of the publication of his memoir, the Primal Scream frontman talks to friend and author Irvine Welsh about his working-class upbringing
10, Oct, 2021 @11:00 AM
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth: Utopian Ashes review – a welcome surprise
The Primal Scream frontman trades brashness for contemplation in this rewarding collaboration with the former Savages singer
Phil Mongredien
27, Jun, 2021 @12:00 PM
Lorde’s comeback single is a lesson in letting pop stars take their time
Solar Power delivers a statement of loose-limbed maturity from a mercurial star who is much imitated but utterly unique
Laura Snapes
11, Jun, 2021 @2:56 PM
'It's all psychedelic!' The film about Alan McGee's rocking, rolling life
He launched Oasis and Primal Scream, then practiced occult magic in Wales. Nick Moran and Ewen Bremner explain how they recreated McGee’s life for biopic Creation Stories
John Harris
18, Mar, 2021 @12:00 PM
Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic
Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis
Cath Clarke
18, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM
Tenement Kid: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie to publish memoir
Book charts the singer’s journey from his childhood in Glasgow to his band’s breakthrough 1991 album Screamadelica and their notorious live shows
Laura Snapes
10, Mar, 2021 @10:30 AM
Andrew Weatherall remembered by David Holmes
The composer pays tribute to a brilliant polymath with singular musical vision, who was also a warm and wise friend
David Holmes
12, Dec, 2020 @2:30 PM
'She gold-plated songs': Denise Johnson, the voice of Manchester's dancefloors
Nineties bands in need of rave vocals looked to the late Johnson, whose rich, fiery voice alchemised their music into something else entirely
Fergal Kinney
28, Jul, 2020 @1:10 PM
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