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Primal Scream: Come Ahead review – Bobby Gillespie’s most personal album yet

The frontman of the Scottish rockers contemplates mortality and more on an album with shades of 70s Philly soul

The Guardian - UK

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie calls Blur's Alex James a 'social climber'

Bobby Gillespie claims the different between himself and Blur's Alex James is the fact he's never tried to be a "social climber".

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Primal Scream’s funk-influenced album Come Ahead is perfect for a baggy-limbed boogie

4/5 At 63, Bobby Gillespie can still channel the back-alley menace of a truant teen while embracing full-blown hedonism in his music

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"The highlights are undermined by quite a lot of dross": Primal Scream are sporadically groovy yet ultimately frustrating on Come Ahead

The Primal Scream team fail to get their rocks off with this underwhelming comeback

Louder

Primal Scream: Come Ahead review – the album of the year

5/5 Their first album in eight years is a masterpiece of personal songwriting, rage for the exploited and funk... yes, funk!

Evening Standard

“Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” Primal Scream offer a cautionary warning about our troubled world with Deep Dark Waters

Primal Scream explore colonialism, xenophobia, fanaticism, human rights and political violence on new single Deep Dark Waters

Louder

"Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single

The story behind the Pink Floyd song the band kept in their vaults for almost 50 years

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‘Politicians? They’re mugs, all of them’: Paul Weller on music, style and the state of the nation

At 66, the Modfather may have mellowed, but he’s lost none of his cool. Paul Weller reveals how he beat his demons, found a new sound – and why he’s still angry with the establishment

The Guardian - UK

‘Defeat would be a big blow’: Labour faces double trouble of Corbyn and Abbott in Islington and Hackney

Jeremy Corbyn’s old constituency reacts to his decision to stand as independent, while decision looms on allowing Diane Abbott to rejoin the party

The Guardian - UK

Paul Weller: 66 review – the Modfather holds his ground with a little help from his friends

Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and Suggs chip in on this solid affair, which peaks with some smouldering sax

The Guardian - UK

'Shane hated funerals': Crowds and celebrities gather for Shane MacGowan's funeral

CELEBRITIES, politicians, and former bandmates all flocked to small Irish town of Nenagh in Country Tipperary on Friday to celebrate the life of…

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‘All punk power and visceral emotion’: farewell, Shane MacGowan, my Celtic soul brother

His best songs made you cry and raise a clenched fist at the same time. Yet the man I knew was also a gentle, poetic soul, says Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie

The Guardian - UK

‘Like the Three Tenors, but with drummers’: Budgie, Lol Tolhurst and Jacknife Lee on their supergroup rebirth

The drummers from the Banshees and the Cure joked about a collaboration until – with megaproducer Lee on board – they were soon jamming with The Edge and Bobby Gillespie. They talk pop, alcoholism and leaving the UK

The Guardian - UK

John Pearse dressed Jagger and Hendrix — now he is wooing Gen Z

The Soho-based, Swinging Sixties legend is the ‘Mod buddha’ dazzling a new generation of fashionistas, says Joe Bromley

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“Phil Lynott could sing you into bed”: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie on his love of Thin Lizzy

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie thinks Thin Lizzy are the creators of the best record ever made – but which one has he gone for?

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Primal Scream musician’s son says band’s ‘tough love’ isolated father before death

Keyboard player Martin Duffy was ‘not able to cope’ after being excluded from tour and rights deal, inquest told

The Independent UK

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’

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Martin Duffy died penniless and alone after being ‘demoted’ by Primal Scream bandmates, son claims

Son of the late keyboardist claims that the band’s ‘method’ of ‘helping’ Duffy backfired and left him ‘distraught and upset’

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Son of Primal Scream member Martin Duffy blasts frontman after inquest hears he died 'penniless'

Primal Scream were one of the biggest British bands of the late 90s, with album Screamadelica widely acknowledged as a classic.

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Tributes paid to trade union activist and father of Primal Scream star

Legendary trade union activist Bob Gillespie, the father of Primal Scream star Bobby Gillespie, has died.

Tribune News Service

Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy dead at 55 after suffering brain injury in fall

Martin Duffy, a longtime member of the Scottish rock band Primal Scream, died Sunday at age 55, his band announced Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Who is Martin Duffy, the Primal Scream star who died at 55?

The admired star had been on the music scene for a number of decades

The Independent UK

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie joins tributes to late keyboardist Martin Duffy

Duffy also played with Oasis, The Chemical Brothers and Beth Orton.

Daily Record

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie pays tribute to 'soul brother' Martin Duffy who died after falling at home

Bobby Gillespie paid tribute to his band mate Martin Duffy who passed away on Sunday, after suffering a brain injury.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow-born Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie to discuss upbringing at Royal Concert Hall

The Springburn-born singer Bobby Gillespie released his memoir Tenement Kid last year, and is now heading to the city's Royal Concert Hall to read excerpts from the book and sign copies.

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