Bobby Gillespie

Primal Scream unaffected by Mani's departure

Music Gossip

7 Feb 2012

Primal Scream's new album won't be affected by the departure of bass player Mani. The band are recording for the first time in over ten years without the musician - who has returned to his first band The Stone Roses - but frontman Bobby Gillespie…

Primal Scream won't write love songs

Music Gossip

14 Jan 2012

Primal Scream will not write any love songs for their new album. The 'Higher Than the Sun' group are currently in the studio working on their tenth LP, and frontman Bobby Gillespie said his lyrics will be "emotional" but not in a sentimental…

Primal Scream in studio without bassist

Music Gossip

12 Jan 2012

Primal Scream are recording their new album without a bass player. The 'Kill all Hippies' group recently lost their bassist Mani, as he left to rejoin his first band The Stone Roses, and they aren't planning to find another one until after finishing…

5 Things: what to expect from Primal Scream at this year's Hogmanay celebrations

The Screamadelica crew announced as Edinburgh party headliners

19 Sep 2011

As the mighty Primal Scream prepare to whip up a storm in the capital for Hogmanay, The List wonders what’s in store for the festive season’s hottest ticket A heroes’ welcome As if holding the world’s (okay, Scotland’s) biggest New Year shindig…

Primal Scream recording new material

Music Gossip

13 Sep 2011

Primal Scream will release a new album next year. The group have been performing the whole of their iconic 1991 record 'Screamadelica' in full on tour for almost a year, but still managed to find time to record new material, although they admit it's…

Screamadelica: A scientific examination

To commemorate the album's 20th birthday, we examine the elements that made it great

3 Mar 2011

As described in the recent Creation Records rockumentary Upside Down, Screamadelica’s story began in 1989 after Creation boss Alan McGee relocated from London to Manchester for a year to be at the epicentre of one of the biggest youth culture phenomena…

GFF blog: Danny O’Connor on documentary Upside Down: The Creation Records Story

New film stars McGee, Noel Gallacher and other Creation alumni

22 Feb 2011

When I talk to Danny O’Connor on the phone, he manages to answer my first question (‘Tell me a little bit about yourself’) with an extensive 16-minute history, covering his radio roots on the BBC’s Evening Sessions and Lamacq Live, to his television…

Bobby Gillespie backs Beady Eye

Music Gossip

28 Nov 2010

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie hopes Liam Gallagher's new band Beady Eye is a huge success. The singer is yet to hear the band's first track 'Bring The Light' but insists he is a big fan of the 'Songbird' singer and is confident he will make…

A Splash One Happening resurrects influential Glasgow indie club

How cult Glasgow indie club Splash One hosted Sonic Youth, Primal Scream and Wire

6 Oct 2010

Track back over the last decade or so, and the Scottish clubs which have truly captured their times are still familiar names to most: Optimo, Manga, Pure, etc. Yet head back two and a half decades, and the scene is like a foreign country. Still, anyone…

Chain Reaction: Bobby Gillespie

The List's 25th Birthday Special

16 Sep 2010

The Jesus and Mary Chain released their debut album, Psychocandy, just a month after The List’s first issue. The band’s then drummer, Bobby Gillespie, has spent the last 25 years at the very centre of British music with his own band, Primal Scream. He…

Rock of Ages

3 Jul 2008

In a bid end that long-standing argument about just how old that guy from The Prodigy really is, Josie Balfour digs out the birth certificates of those appearing at T in the Park.

Bobby Gillespie

23 Aug 2007

Fire Engines ‘I’m a big Fire Engines Fan. They were a big influence on us: fifteen minute sets, very intense. ‘Get Up and Use Me’ – their single. ‘Candy Skin’, ‘Meat Whiplash’, ‘Sympathetic Anaesthetic’, you know? Big fan of the Fire Engines…