July 4, 2008 'Beautiful Future' Ltd Edition version
There is now a limited edition version of the new album avaiable in digi-pack with bonus tracks and video. I believe this is the European version.
It has the same bonus tracks as the Japanese version, except i don't think the Japanese version includes the video for 'Can't Go Back'.
You can pre-order it from Amazon.co.uk using the link above.
1. Beautiful Future
2. Can't Go Back
3. Uptown
4. The Glory Of Love
5. Suicide Bomb
6. Zombie Man
7. Beautiful Summer
8. I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)
9. Over & Over
10. Necro Hex Blues
11. The Glory of Love (single version)
12. Urban Guerrilla
13. 13 Time Of The Assassins
14. Can't Go Back (Video)
'Beautiful Future' pre-order through iTunes exclusive offer
Primal Scream have announced plans to reward those who get in quick to
order their new album 'Beautiful Future' by giving them priority access
to upcoming tour dates. Anyone who pre-orders the new album via iTunes
will get an email which will mean they can access tickets to the band's
upcoming UK tour dates via Ticketmaster's website before they go on
general release. They'll also get an extra bonus track for their efforts
- 'Time Of The Assassins'. And if they sign up to the band's mailing
list they'll get another free track, 'Urban Guerrilla'. Which is all
lovely. 'Beautiful Future' is the band's first long player since signing
with B-Unique, and is out on 21 Jul. You can pre-order via iTunes now
July 2, 2008 Another chance Win tickets to Secret Gig
All you have to do is register at the offical Primal Scream
Website.
Source: B-Unique/Atlantic
July 1, 2008 Win tickets to Secret Gig
10 lucky Webadelica regulars are getting into a secret gig for free courtesy of The Scream!
Answer must be in by Thursday, July 3th. Winners will be announced Friday, July 4th.
As per Andrew Innes' instructions, this competition is only open to Webadelica regulars
Name the 3 guests who appear on the new Scream album, 'Beautiful Future.
Email answer to:
Source: Andrew Innes
'Beautiful Future' Album launch competition
B-unique/Altantic are giving away 1o pairs of tickets to the official London album launch party for Primal Scream on
Tuesday July 15th.
All you have to do is the answer this question to be entered into the competition.
What famous folk artist appears on the new Scream album, 'Beautiful Future'?
Email answer to:
Answer must be in by Tuesday, July 8th at 6:00pm US EST. Winners will be announced Wednesday, July 9th
June 24, 2008 'Can't Go Back' b-side revealedUPDATED!
B-Unique/Atlantic
CD UK B-Unique BUN140CD
01: Can't Go Back
02: Jesus Is My Air-o-plane
7" UK B-Unique BUN140
01: Can't Go Back
02: Urban Guerilla (Hawkwind cover)
June 23, 2008 The Scream debut new tracks
The Scream debuted tracks from their forthcoming album, 'Beautiful Future' at the Xfm's All Day Breakfast. The Scream played at 12am on Saturday night. Here is the tracklstings in full:
01 Can't Go Back
02 Miss Lucifer
03 Beautiful Future
04 Suicide Bomb
05 Kowalski
06 Uptown
07 Beautiful Summer
08 Shoot Speed
09 Swastika Eyes
10 Rocks
11 Accelerator
Encore:
13 I'm Losing More
14 Movin' On Up
The Scream cover Suicide
The Scream have contributed a cover of a Suicide track on the forthcoming tribute to Suicide on Blastfirst (Petite). It conicides with Alen Vega's 70th birthday. The series will be released on
limited edition 10" and digitally. More details soon.
June 14, 2008 'Beautiful Future' tracklisting
1 Beautiful Future
2 Can't Go Back
3 Uptown
4 Glory of Love
5 Suicide Bomb
6 Beautiful Summer
7 Zombie Man
8 I Love to Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)
9 Over and Over
10 Necro Hex Blues (was Viva)
11 Glory of Love (Single version)
So apparently 'Glory of Love' will be the second single to be released from the album. 'Urban Guerrilla' and 'Time Of The Assassin' will be Japanese
only bonus track, but I suspect they will also be released as UK single b-sides.
June 13, 2008 'Beautiful Future' album cover revealed
June 11, 2008 Primal Scream article in Uncut
There is an interview with Bobby in the June issue of
Uncut. On newsstands now in the UK.
Japan version of 'Beautiful Future'
The Japanese version of 'Beautiful Future' will contain 2 bonus tracks, 'Urban Guerilla' and 'Time of ?? (couldn't trnlate this part)'. I assume this mean means both tracks will be b-sides
'Can't Go Back' on Myspace
You can now listen to the new Priaml Scream single on their myspace site
June 10, 2008 New song available for download
Primal Scream have released a taster for the new album. The song is
called 'Urban Guerilla'. The song is very pop music
for The Scream. I'm not sure if it sounds like Bobby singing! This a Hawkwind cover with Bobby adding some of his own line I believe ie. 'I'm a suicude bomber'. Download it
here.
Here is some artwork that may give clues to the album artwork.
'Uptown (Andrew Weatherall remix)'
Andrew Weatherall has remixed the song, 'Uptown' from the new album. You are can listen to it exclusively
here. It was part of the 6mix
with Andrew Weatherall from Saturday June 7th. It's in at about 1hr 15mins into the mix. Thge is 15 minutes plus disco odyssey!
June 6, 2008 'Beautiful Future' album sleeve
This image of what appears to be the new album cover appeared on the Warner Music Japan website. As you can see, it's a bit like a New York Dolls script text.
June 6, 2008 UPDATE: This ong has been removed for some reason 'Can't Go Back' remix
'Can't Go Back' has been remixed by UK psych groovesters
The Time and Space Machine, who are 1/2 of UK psych groovesters
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve. You can hear it
here.
The song will appear on the b-side of the forthcoming Scream single, 'Can't Go Back', released on July 14th.
Over the course of 20 years and eight albums, Bobby Gillespie and his merry men have continually influenced and adapted to the musical mood of the times, proving as adept in choosing their collaborators as surviving a series of excesses, fallouts and label changes.
Now signed to B-Unique and with their distinctly trad predecessor Riot City Blues still ringing in our ears, can they still impress with album nine?
It starts promisingly, with album opener and title track Beautiful Future tapping into the band's love of idiot-savant, boogie rock with enough of a contemporary sheen to avoid clich.
Following track Can't Go Back also fails to disappoint, with echoes of 2000's Accelerator contained within its nuclear-powered grooves. Tracks three and four, Uptown and Glory Of Love, are carried by a streamlined, post-disco sheen courtesy of producer Paul Epworth, who helmed most of the album's sessions with Bjrn Yttling.
However, around this point the band noticeably slip into autopilot. If there ever was such a thing as a Primal Scream Title Generator, surely Suicide Bomb and Zombie Man would be among the first results to appear.
Similarly, Gillespie's lyrics worryingly slump into his default damage/disease/junkie/fight/alright territory that we've heard many, many times before.
Thankfully the band play their joker for the album's final tracks, releasing another canny set of collaborators to steer them away from the choppy waters of clich.
CSS's Lovefoxxx pops up on a pulsating I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt), while the beautiful space-country cover of Fleetwood Mac's Over & Over a duet with Linda Thompson would not have sounded out of place on the band's 1992 landmark Dixie-Narco EP.
Finally, Josh Homme thrashes his lead guitar about on the MC5-styled album closer Viva which, since founder member Throb's departure a couple of years back, is the only track on the album where guitars remain noticeably at the forefront.
So, it's business as usual for the Scream Team: a good selection of songs made better by a strong cast of collaborators, with Paul Epworth and his pulsating wooshy buttons deserving special commendation for giving the set a real cohesion.
You'll blush at the at-times-rotten lyrics, but at the end of the day Primal Scream remain a pretty special band. Beautiful Future? Maybe not, but with each of their nine albums sounding completely different to any of their others, the band have certainly created a fascinating legacy.
May 30, 2008 'Beautiful Future' tracklisting
1 Beautiful Future
2 Can't Go Back
3 Uptown
4 Glory of Love
5 Suicide Bomb
6 Beautiful Summer
7 Zombie Man
8 I Love to Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)
9 Over and Over
10 Viva
As pieced together using google translation on the hmv.co.jp site
May 24, 2008 'Beautiful Future' tracks
We've been able to piece together what some of the tracks are for the album
I Love to hurt, (You Love to be hurt) (featuring Lovefoxxx from CSS on vox)
Viva (featuring Josh Homme on guitar, QOTSA)
Over and Over (featuring folk legend Linda Thompson duet with Bobby)
Zombie Man
Uptown
Beautiful Future
The Japanese issue is supposed to contain a bonus track
May 22, 2008 'Can't Go Back' premiers on XFM plus other news
The first single from the new album, 'Beautiful Future', 'Can't Go Back' was previewed on XFM today. I think it's the poppiest song they've ever recorded (more thoughts soon).
Bobby describes the new album as "Bubblegum and razorblades".
During a brief interview Bobby reveals a little about the tracks on the new album.
Love to hurt, You Love to be hurt (featuring Lovefoxxx from CSS)
Viva (featuring Josh Homme on guitar, QSTA)
Over and Over (featuring folk legend Linda Thompson)
The Scream have recently remixed an Andrew Weatherall track. No word on a release date.
Scream albums remastered UPDATE: May 31
Cardboard sleeve reissue from Primal Scream featuring digital remastering from 2008 and bonus disc with out-of-print single tracks and rarities. Features color inner pocket and new obi design. Part of a five-album Primal Scream cardboard sleeve reissue series
featuring the albums "Screamadelica", "Give Out But Don't Give Up," "Vanishing Point,"
"XTRMNTR," "Evil Heat," and "Riot City Blues" are all apparently remastered and being released with a bonus disc
of out of print b-sides. No news if they will include any unreleased material or who rematered them. They are due to be released on July 2nd.
May 19, 2008 New single - 'Can't Go Back'
The first single from the new album, 'Beautiful Future', will be 'Can't Go Back'. Theis will be released Juy 14th. This song was previewed at gigs last year.
May 12, 2008 Scream to play Massive Attack's Meltdown festival
The Massive Attack Meltdown Festival takes place at London's South Bank Tuesday 24 June, 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall. They will be playing with the MC5! Tickets on sale May 14th.
May 8, 2008 Beautiful Future
'Beautiful Future' is the name of ther new Scream album. It's due out on July 21st! One song is rumoured to sound like Pulp
April 9, 2008 The Dirt On The New Album
The new album has been recorded. It has apparently been produced by Swedish artists Peter, Bjorn and John and Lykke Li. According to a recent interview with
Peter, Bjorn and John, the album is pop and Kraut sounding. Some other reports that the album with have a more electronic as well as a
country sound. Here are some bits of articles that have been transcribed by some Swedish fans:
... the international success that the single "young
folks" became for the Swedish band "peter bjorn and john" have open many
doors for Bjorn Yttling as a producer. Bjorn Yttling plays the
bassguitar in "Peter Bjorn and John".
Bjorn Yttling have produced a lot a swedish acts. Lykke Li, Sahara
Hotnights and Shout out louds for example.
Primal Scream have listen to "Peter Bjorn and John" and "Lykke Li" and
like what they heard. They called up Bjorn and then he went to London
for rehearsing the new songs with the screams. The new scream album was
recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Atlantis studio. Where it was
recorded in four days says Bjorn.
Bjorn says that it easy to work withe the screams, because they are used
to put the music in the hands of a producer.
Here is another:
How did the teamwork work out? It worked very well. They know how to
make a record and has no problems with handing over the responsibility
to a producer. The only problem was understanding their extreme scottish
dialect.
How does Primal Scream sound with you as a producer? It's much more
pop and kraut than earlier, so it fits well with me. It sounds a bit
like Alan Vega and Suicide. I rehersed with them in London at first and
then we recorded everything in four days at "Atlantisstudion" in
Stockholm.
[Ed: it seems like an unlikely choice of producers but thanks God it isn't Mark Ronson, who was rumoured to have produced it, didn't produce it]
Source: Klas J and The fine friends of the Webadelica forum.
March 25, 2008 New(?) Scream song emerges
A new Scream song has appeared in one of the strangest places (well maybe not, read further down), during a recent fashion show.
It's part of Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 08 collection. The song is titled, 'Son of a Preacher Man'. It's a Dusty Springfield cover and appears about 4:40 minutes into the clip and finishes on the second clip. The clips were uploaded
on March 10th of this year, so one would assume this is a newly recorded song. You are probably wondering why this song may have appeared here first?
Well Bobby's wife, Katy England works in the fashion industry. [You can download the song from the forum]
Source: The fine friends of the Webadelica forum.
March 16, 2008 More album details emerge
Primal Scream have disclosed that a number of collaborators are set to
feature on their as yet untitled ninth studio album, the follow up to
2006's 'Riot City Blues'.
The LP, due out later this year, will feature a number of different
collaborators and producers, including James Ford, who produced Arctic
Monkeys and Klaxons' recent albums.
Speaking to BBC News, Bobby Gillespie said: "We did some tracks with
Youth, Paul Epworth - we did some stuff with him. James Ford is going to
do a mix for us as well, and we've been producing stuff ourselves."
It is also rumoured that the band are looking at doing sessions with
Mark Ronson, though these have not yet been confirmed.
Source: NME.
February 19, 2008 Throb playing guitar again
According to Peter Hook's (New Order)
myspace site
, Mani has recruited Throb to play on some tracks with indie supergroup, 'Freebass'.
'Freebass' members include Andy
Rourke (formerly of The Smiths), Mani
and Peter Hook (New Order). Vocals will come from contributors such as The Charlatans' Tim
Burgess, Oasis' Liam Gallagher, and
Ian Brown ( formerly of Stones Roses) and Bobby is rumoured to sing on a song or two
Five part interview with Bobby on 'Soft Focus'
Bobby appears on VBS.TV's internet program, 'Soft Focus'. Check out the first two parts of the interview
here.
January 4&15, 2008 New Scream album due this year.
The February issue of Uncut magazine reports about the forthcoming Scream album due in April or May: Bobby talks of what they've been doing, what it'll sound like and who's on it.
According to the man himself it's to be a pop album (but does say Burning Wheel is pop to him), whereas RCB was bluesy, with structured verses and big choruses and an 'up' feel.
Lovefoxx from CSS sings on one song and Little Barrie
does slide on another. All the demos are done and they're finding the right producer to do it right. Here is the full article.
January 11, 2008 Robert 'Throb' Young to reconnect with The Scream?
Rumor has it that Robert 'Throb' Young will rejoin The Scream for a forthcoming world tour. This would no doubt mean that he will appear on the forthcomin album due later this year.
More about the album
Here is what Digital Spy has reported:
CSS singer Lovefoxxx and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie are to record a duet.
The track, which Gillespie describes as "...electronic psychedelia and almost John Lennon-y", will be placed on Primal Scream's new album, due out later this year. The pair decided to collaborate after they played the same event in Lovefoxxx's hometown of Sao Paolo.
Gillespie told NME: "(CSS) were playing at the same festival as us. We ended up hanging out with them, having a great night - us and them. We stayed up all night playing music and chatting."
He added: "I went to see them at the Astoria (in London) and I think I asked her (to duet) then. Then I wrote her an email and sent her the song and she was really into it."
The singer described the upcoming track, saying: "It's about a destructive relationship, I guess. It's not an 'up' kind of song, it's a very, very dark-sounding track, really intense."
Here is what Bobby told NME:
"I went to see them at the Astoria (in London) and I think I asked her then. Then I wrote her an email and sent her the song and she was really into it," he explained.
The song has been described as a mesh of electronica with a psychedelic vibe, which Gillespie claims "sounds fucking great".
Lovefoxxx recorded the track in the autumn of 2007 and it will feature on Primal Scream's next record, due out later this year.
December 5, 2007 Bobby sings on Queens of the Stone Age B-side
Bobby it guest vocalist on the b-side of the the new Queens of the Stone Age single, 'Make It Wit Chu'.
The song 'Needle in the Camel's Eye' is a cover of a Brian Eno song. The song is avaiable on 7" only
Bobby to play Agent Provacateur Label Launch on December 18th
I presume this means that this marks the release of the labels first release which features Bobby and Dot Allison dueting on
a country song called, "Up against the wall you red neck mother..."
Scream Stars To Play Strummer Anniversary Gig
"Oasis, Primal Scream and Smiths stars are to perform a host of classic Clash songs to mark the fifth anniversary of Joe Strummer's death.
Members of The Happy Mondays and Alabama 3 will also appear at the event at JAMM in London on December 22nd.
•London Calling Remembering Joe Strummer,' has been organised by Geoff Martin, the director of the Left Field Stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
–We wanted to mark the fifth anniversary of Joe Strummer's death with a unique event that marks the positive impact that his life had on so many of us. Brixton JAMM will be the place to be,” he said.
The supergroup, known as the Strummerville Collective, will also feature Jamie T and members of Paul Weller's band.
"Money raised will be shared by Strummerville the Joe Strummer Foundation for new music and RAR08 which will be fighting to stop the BNP in the run up to next May's London elections,” Martin added.
"We also hope to make enough cash to put a bunch of guitars into Brixton prison as part of Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors initiative, in memory of Joe.”
September 1, 2007 Riot City Blues Tour DVD US Release
'Rioty City Blues Your DVD' will be released in the US on October 9th. It was recorded live at Live in
London Hammersmith Apollo 2006. It was released in the UK/Europe on August 6. Here is the tracklisting:
Accelerator
Dolls
Jailbird
Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Suicide Sally
Burning Wheel
Bomb Drops
Hole In My Heart
Medication
Rise
Swastika Eyes
Country Girl
Rocks
Damaged
Loaded
Moving On Up
Bring Out the Jams
Promo Videos
Loaded
Movin on Up
Rocks
Miss Lucifer
Country Girl
Dolls
Some Velvet Morning
Swastika Eyes
Kill All Hippies
Come Together
Autobahn 66
Jailbird
Interviews
August 24, 2007 Throb is not returning
According to an recently unearthed interview
from May of this year, Robert 'Throb' Young will not be returning to The Scream.
Here is what Bobby said when asked about the addition of Little Barrie:
"I don't think Throb will ever come back.........I'd have him back any day".
August 24, 2007 New Scream album due next year
Bobby appears on 'Word of Mouth' at the
List and is asked about what he thinks of
bands playing along with The Scream at the Connect Festival in September. Here is what he said about his own band:
"...We're working on a new record now, it's fuckin' great. Yep, our new album, it should be out next year.
It fuckin' sounds amazing. What can ye expect? I'm not gonnae tell you. It'll be different from what we've done before though.
Hopefully. We're all very excited about it. Very very excited. We're all confident it's going to be a good record".
August 22, 2007 Scream wow at V Festival
The Scream played a greatest hits set at this years V Festival. The Setlist included 2 new songs (despite what the
NME
reported), one of which is apparently called 'Can't Get Back' (see video clip below), which sounds great!. Apparently the other new track is even better.
They dedicated 'Damaged' to the Tony Wison, founder of Fatory records, who died of cancer last week. Read
the full
article here.
Primal Scream Live video clip at V Festival 2007- 'Can't Get Back'
August 17, 2007 Scream members join Thievery Corporation
Primal Scream keyboardist Martin Duffy and drummer Darrin Mooney
lend a hand on
Dust Galaxy's.
self-titled album, which is due out in the US on November 6. Dust Galaxy
is a more rock oriented side project from Thievery Corporation.
Bobby in Hippy Hippy Shock
In a recent article for
Sunday Mail.co.uk,
Bobby reveals that's he's learned to love festivals. He also says that Ian McCulloch from the Echo and the Bunnymen were a big influence on The Scream and that 'The Killing Moon' is one of his all-tome favorite records.
He also tells how he had limited ability on drums when he
was in The Jesus and Mary Chain and hadn't he quit, he probably would have been sacked in time.
Read the whole article here.
The Scream debut new songs
According to Mani, the Scream are due to debut the new songs at the V Festival on August 18th and 19th. Then in a few weeks The Scream
go onto the studio to work on their next album. The Scream already debuted new songs at their recent festival appearances in Scandinavia. They are reportly along the same lines of material from 'Riot City Blues'.
July 9, 2007
The Scream played Moscow for the first ever on July 7, 2007. Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) is back playing live with the Scream. I doubt he
will play on The Scream's next album
since apparently Kevin is reforming The Valentines for a new album and tour in 2008.
Here is the setlist:
1. Accelerator
2. Dolls
3. Jailbird
4. Shoot Speed/Kill Light
5. Detroit
6. Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
7. Burning Wheel
8. Kill All Hippies
9. Medication
10. Rise
11. Kowalski
12. Swastika Eyes
13. Country Girl
14. Rocks
15. Movin' On Up
June 6, 2007 Martin Duffy in new supergroup
Martin Duffy, Primal Scream's longtime keyboardist, is due to play with a new supergroup called The Chavs, on the debut of
Alan McGee's famed club night Death Disco television premiere. The show will be broadcast on
Rockworld.TV on Sky.
The supergroup was formed by former Libertine Carl Barat
with the Charlatans' Tim Burgess and will also feature Razorlights'
Andy Burrows.
June 6, 2007 A full blown Jesus and Mary Chain reunion with Kevin Shields?
Rob Dobbs over at the Some Candy Talking forum says that Douglas Hart mentioned
that himself, Bobby Gillespie and Kevin Shields are to play with a one off band at the Meltdown Festival on June 22, 2007. The Jesus and Mary Chain are also playing this festival.
Sounds like a full blown Jesus and Mary Chain reunion with the addition of Kevin Shields
May 15, 2007 Country Girl covers on youtube.com
Monkey See Live (pretty true to the original)
Blighted (full on country version)
April 26, 2007 Primal Scream to release first live DVD
Primal Scream will release their first live DVD. It's from their recent 'Riot City Blues' tours. It's released on June 25, 2007.
It will also features many of the Scream's videos, another first.
Live from London is the first DVD release from the legendary iconic band, Primal Scream. Released to coincide with the bands 25th anniversary this DVD contains over two hours of concert footage and features all 12 of their promo videos.
Recorded in front of a sell out crowd at Hammersmith this stunning live performance features all their greatest hits and contains the first live performance of "Loaded" in over three years. This DVD also contains over an hour of extras including interviews with front man Bobby Gillespie and guitarist Mani, plus and backstage footage.
Tracklist
1. Accelerator
2. Dolls
3. Jailbird
4. Shoot Speed
5. Suicide Sally
6. Burning Wheel
7. Bomb drops
8. Hole In My Heart (aka 99th floor)
9. Medication
10. Rise
11. Swastika Eyes
12. Country Girls
13. Rocks
14. Damaged
15. Loaded
16. Moving On Up
17. Bring Out the Jams
12 Promo Videos: Loaded, Movin on Up, Rocks, Miss Lucifer, Country Girl, Dolls, Some Velvet Morning, Swastika Eyes, Kill All Hippies, Come Together, Autobahn 66, Jailbird
Interviews and back stage footage of the band.
New album news
The Scream are currently holed up in their studio, starting to record a new record.
New Scream remix
The Scream have currently worked on a Queens Of The Stone Age track 'I'm Designer' with Adrian Sherwood.
March 30, 2007 Primal Scream to Headline Isle of Skye
Primal Scream to Headline Isle of Skye on Saturday May 26. Check the
Isle of Skye for more details and ordering tickets
sorry for adding these updates so late..
March 23, 2007 Primal Scream awarded 2007 NME Godlike Geniuses Award NME has given Primnal Scream
the 'Godlike Geniuses' Award. The band were awarded the prize by Mick Jones (the Clash) who also joined them on stage
to rip through The Clash's 1978 single, '(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais.
Primal Scream sign to new record label
Primal Scream has signed a new record deal with B-B-Unique
records, home of The Kaiser Chiefs, The Automatic, The Ordinary Boys.
The band are due to start recording new material later this year. See the NME
for more details.
Primal Scream to play 2007 festival dates
Primal Scream has will be playing this year's
Connect Festival. The reformed Jesus and Mary Chain will also appear, which sparks curiousity as to whether
Bobby will join them onstage. Bobby has recently said he would like to play with them again. Tickets are on sales now. The Scream will also be playing
Ëyafestivalen in Oslo, Norway on the 11th of August.
Win a signed Scream Drum Kit
You have a chance to win a signed Scream drum kit that was used in a live radio session on the Colin and Edith show for Radio 1.
Visit the The Hedrons website for more details.
An Audience with Mani
Although the deadline has passed to ask Mani questions for
Uncut's 'An Audience With' feature.
The answers will appear in the next issue I assume.
February 16, 2007 Scream leaving Sony records
According to this article,
Primal Scream's contract ended with Sony records. The article says several labels are interested in signing the band. UPDATE: This has been confirmed by
Scream Management.
Scream to record new album this year?
According to Bobby in a recent interview for NME, The Scream are hoping to record a new album later this year. Bobby says it will sound nothing like
'Riot City Blues'. Let's hope that Robert "Throb" Young will rejoin the band.
Listen to the interview HERE.
December 11, 2006 Primal Scream to win 2007 NME Godlike Geniuses Award
According to NME, Primnal Scream are to be named 'Godlike Geniuses'.
"It's a great honour to get the same award as a band like The Clash.
It's a real honour," adding that he felt Primal Scream's constant
attempts to innovate had marked them apart.
"I've always thought of what we do as an experiment, even from day one,"
he said. "That's the driving force in our band. We've never made the
same record twice, like most bands. We just want to keep everything
fresh and exciting."
December 11, 2006 'Sometimes I Feel So Lonley' released one week early
It's only on sale at iTunes UK as of now. I suspect it will be released in Japan on CD at some point.
Buy it here.. As far as I know the 7" is still released on December 18th. It's limited to 2000 copies.
December 4, 2006 Freebase: Indie's first supergroup?
New Order's bassist Peter Hook is working with two other great British
bass players: former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke and former Stone Rose
and Primal Scream bassist Mani.
The speculated supergroup appears to have come to fruition with Hooky
talking online that they've named themselves Freebase.
Peter Hook has been talking about the group to various sites; telling us
a bit more about what the new material will sound like, he explains, "As
for the music itself, it's a really weird cross between northern soul,
reggae, New Order, Stones Roses and the Smiths. The three basses work
together on a few tracks, which I was delighted about, because everyone
was laughing at us for wanting to do it."
The supergroup is still searching for a singer, and in an interview on
music site higher-frequency.com, Peter Hook jokes about their attitude.
"Mani said, •We've gotta find somebody who's unknown, Hooky, so we can
fuckin' persecute him!' So we're looking for someone who we can
persecute, for all our years of persecution!"
Hook speculates that Freebase might have settled on someone, saying,
"We've found a kid in Wigan, he's been in a few bands before, and he's
done a couple of tracks, a couple of ideas that were really good."
The three bassists have apparently got 17 songs written, so hopefully
we'll be hearing something soon.
November 16, 2006 Scream to release Christmas single (of sorts)
Primal Scream are releasing a re-recorded version of 'Sometimes I Feel So Lonely' on December 18th.
It will be released as a very limited 7" and Downlaod single
The newly recorded version features a children's choir and an orchestra. The single is supposed to be a christmas single of sorts according to Sony. You can hear the song
at the Scream's MySpace.com site.
The b-side features the previously unreleased song called 'Gamblin Bar Roon Blues.'
Lastly, there will be a download only remix of 'Sometimes I Feel So Lonely' remixed by Bomb the Bass, which will be on iTunes UK. Hopefully the single will be released on CD in Japan.
The band may have fans submit videos for the song...more details soon.
November 14, 2006 The Scream and Mani on MySpace.com
Both Primal Scream and
Mani now have a presence on MySpace.com. Apparently the Primal Scream
page was originally an unofficial fan run page, but the Sony/Columbia took it over.
First report on the Scream's November tour
The Scream returned to live action and kicked off their November tour with in Dublin on November 10th and 11th.
Throb has still not returned to the fold. Irvine Welsh was spotted in a private box.
November 10th setlist:
Movin' On Up
Dolls
Jailbird
Shoot Speed / Kill Light
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
Kill All Hippies
Burning Wheel
When The Bomb Drops
The 99th Floor
Medication
Kowalski
Swastika Eyes
Country Girl
Rocks
(Encore)
Accelerator
Rise
What goes on (VU cover)
November 11th setlist:
Movin' On Up
Dolls
Jailbird
Shoot Speed / Kill Light
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
Kill All Hippies
Burning Wheel
When The Bomb Drops
The 99th Floor
Medication
Kowalski
Swastika Eyes
Country Girl
Rocks
(Encore 1)
Damaged
What goes on (VU cover)
Accelerator
Rise
(Encore 2)
Sick City
Skull X
June 8, 2006 Live at Maida Vale studios
The Scream played live at Maida Vale studios on June 7th. The show was
broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on the Janice Long show.
Set list was:
Movin' On Up
Dolls
Nitty Gritty
Kill All Hippies
Bomb Drops
Kowalski
Country Girl
Rocks
Suicide Sally was also played but wasn't broadcast.
June 1, 2006 Upcoming Appereances
The Scream are playing on Later with Jools Holland on June 9th. The
show will be available to view online afterwards.
The Scream are also scheduled to appear on the
The Scream are playing on Album Chart Show
performing 7 tracks and will be interviewed as well
Primal Scream Day
BBC 6 Misic have declared Monday June 5th
Primal Scream Day. They have a chance to win the Scream back catalogue and some other cool stuff.
May 30, 2006 'Country Girl' in the charts
'Country girl' entered the UK charts at number 24 and then went to number 5 in it's second week.
May 23, 2006 'Country Girl' releases galore
'Country girl' was released this week. You can also download an exclusive version on
UK iTunes,
called the 'Beans & Fatback' mix. Lastly, you can also download a live version of 'Country Girl' recorded at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee, check the
official site for more details.
May 8, 2006 Offical site is launched
The
official site
was finally relaunched a few days ago, they have all sorts of exciting news of forthcoming events and sound clips of the new b-sides.
May 6, 2006 'Riot City Blues' tracklisting
One of the titles has changed slightly once again
01 - Country Girl
02 - Nitty Gritty
03 - Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
04 - When The Bomb Drops
05 - Little Death
06 - The 99th Floor
07 - Boogie Disease
08 - Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)
09 - Hell's Comin' Down
10 - Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
The Japanese CD will contain 3 bonus tracks (which will also be available on the various UK singles):
Stone Ya to The Bone
To Live is to Fly
Gimme Some Truth
Primal Scream to appear on 'The Album Chart Show'
I suspect they will play 'Country Girl'
'Country Girl' now available for download
'Country Girl' can now be downloaded on ITunes UK and Napster. According to the official Primal Scream site it's been selling very well.
Apparently it could be heard on a recent episode of the UK television soap, 'The Eastenders.'
'Country Girl' performed on The Jonathan Ross Show
Primal Scream played 'Country Girl' on The Jonathan Ross show on Friday May 5th.
You can view it on You Tube. Thanks to moogieboy for this treat.
Primal Scream featured on upcoming 'Love' documentary
Both Bobby and Mani are interviewed in a forthcoming documentary about the legendary and classic 60's band, 'Love.' The documentary is called "Love Story"
For more info visit this site.
April 27, 2006 Primal Scream to play London HMV
Primal Scream will play London HMV and also sign autographs on June 4th. May 28th is the dealine to enter. However, you need to win tickets to attend this event.
Click here to enter
The Throb mystery revealed
An interview with Bobby Gillespie from the Observer last weekend, gave a lot of incite about the band. Bobby also reveals about Throb's absence from the current tour
Check it out!
April 22, 2006 'Riot City Blues' artwork revealed
Could this be the cover artwork for the new album? play.com and
hmv.co.uk both have this as the cover. It's a very unusual cover for the
Scream. Some Webadelica forum members pointed out that it's like a Belle
and Sebastian cover!
(See left column of pictures)
April 13, 2006 'Country Girl' artwork revealed
(See left column of pictures )
The cover is a photograph by William Eggleston, and is called 'Untitled' and appears on the cover on a book called
'The Accidental'. The Scream have used a photograph by Eggleston before, for the cover of 'Give out but don't give up'. He also
took the lightbulb/ceiling photo that adorns the second Big Star lp sleeve.
A promo copy of 'Country girl' sold on eBay recently, it contains an edited version of
the song.
Tracklisting (updated)
2-Track CD
1. Country Girl
2. To Live Is To Fly
Maxi-CD
1. Country Girl
2. Stone Ya to The Bone
3. Gimme Some Truth
4. Country Girl (video)
7" vinyl
A. Country Girl
B. Gimme Some Truth
Country Girl Video
You can now view the uncut version of the video for 'Country Girl'
here. A cut version will be shown on TV.
April 4, 2006 Scream to play Reading/leeds Festivals
See tour dates link above for details.
'Riot City Blues' Japan release date
'Riot City Blues' will be released on May 31st in Japan. No word of any bonus tracks yet.
'Country Girl' single details
'Country Girl' will be available on 2-track CD, Maxi CD and 7" vinyl.
The 2-track CD features the B-side To Live Is To Fly which was written by Townes Van Zandt,
the 7" vinyl includes the John Lennon track Gimme Some Truth,
while the Maxi CD boasts the bonus song Stone Ya To The Bone and the impressive new video,
which was filmed in L.A by acclaimed director Jonas Akerlund. The single is due out on May 22.
Bobby makes vocal guest appereance
Bobby appears on a new song by The Mekons, called 'Blood on the Moon (in Flagrant remix).'
The song also features Alan Vega. The track can be found on the free CD with the current issue of DJ magazine. The CD is entiitled
'Love and Good Times at the Red Bull Mansion' the issues dedicated to
this years Miami conference.
Scream Rocumentary?
Primal Scream have asked Michael Winterbottom to make a documentary movie about the band, PS can reveal.
The two camps worked together when Winterbottom filmed a Primal Scream gig as part of his movie nine songs.
"The band have approached Michael," his PR told PS. "They haven't had a meeting so it's too early to say if this will happen, but they have asked."
24 hour party people director Michael Winterbottom might make a documentery about Primal Scream, PS can reveal.
Winterbottom's PR told PS: "If you have a look at Michael's CV, he doesn't have a habit of going back to his past work."
The spokesman added: "Because the band helped on Nine Songs, I wouldn't want to raise anyone's hopes that Michael will want to do this. But as he's been asked, it can't be ruled out."
March 15, 2006 Riot City Blues
Primal Scream have finally named there forthcoming album, it's called 'Riot City Blues.'
Below is the tracklisting.
01 - Country Girl
02 - Nitty Gritty
03 - Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
04 - When The Bomb Drops
05 - Little Death
06 - The 99th Floor
07 - Boogie Disease (Originally titled 'We're gonna boogie')
08 - Dolls (Come On Babe Let's Have A Good Time) - Originally titled 'Sweet Rock n Roll'
09 - Hell's Comin' Down
10 - Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
Some Duffy Action
Martin Duffy plays on the B-side of the debut single by
Mista Brown.
The single was released in January and was produced by Brendan Lynch.
March 1, 2006 Webadelica gets a nod
The Official Primal Scream website
is currently under reconstruction but they were kind enough give
Webadelica the thumbs up.
Finally some recognition for the first and longest running Scream site on the web!
New LP song titles
Here is a list of songs from the forthcoming album that we've come across so far. Hopefully the LP will leak soon!
Country Girl
When the Bombs Drop
Dolls
Hell's Comin' Down
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely
February 15, 2006 New Album and Single release details
Columbia records have released a new Press release about the new single and album. Some of the song titles have been revealed:
'When the Bombs drop' featuring Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen. It was reported a while back that this songs recalls
Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Rescue.' Othe songs include 'Dolls' which features a duet with Alison Mosshart (The Kills),
she also provides backing vocals on several other songs. Another new song called 'Hell's comin' down' features Warren Ellis
of Nick cave & The Bad Seeds on fiddle.
Primal Scream
New Album Released June 5th
New Single 'Country Girl' Released May 22nd on Columbia
Primal Scream are back with their greatest rock and roll record yet, released June 5th on Columbia Records and featuring the first single 'Country Girl'.
Recorded in 10 days last June, it was laid down live on the studio floor at
Olympic Studios in London by Bobby Gillespie on vocals; Andrew Innes on
guitars, banjo & mandolin; Martin Duffy on piano, harmonium, hammond b-3 organ & harmonica; Gary 'Mani' Mounfield on bass and Robert Young
on guitars & harmonica.
They were joined by the incredible Will Sergeant from Echo & The
Bunnymen who played lead guitar on 'When The Bomb Drops'; Warren Ellis
of Nick cave & The Bad Seeds who played fiddle in 'Hell's Comin' Down'
and Alison Mosshart from The Kills who sang backing vocals on more than
a few songs and duets with Bobby on 'Dolls' (Come On Baby, Let's have A
Good Time).
These sessions were produced by Youth. The band then took the tracks to L.A. where they were mixed by David Sardy at Village Recorders, again in 10 days.
Primal Scream play the Isle of White festival on Saturday June 10th, T in the Park on July 9th and London's Astoria on April 6th.
Source: Sony Records Press Release courtesy of you know who you are :)
Official Site forum back up
The Official Primal Scream forum is back up. Also note that they recommend visting this site : )
February 21, 2006 The Scream to play Oxegen Festival
Primal Scream are due to play this years Oxegen Festival at
Punchestown in County Kildare, Ireland, on July 8th.
Tickets for Oxegen 2006 go on sale at
Ticketmaster or
MTV on Friday, February 24 at 9am
February 15, 2006 New Album and Single release details
Primal Scream's eagerly anticipated new single 'Country Girl' is
released on Columbia Records, May 22nd, followed by the album on June
5th. Their first studio LP since 'Evil Heat' in 2002, it is the band's
ninth LP and was recorded by Youth with mixes by Dave Sardy.
Source: Sony Records Press Release courtesy of you know who you are :)
New gigs announced
The Scream will be playing the Astoria in London on April 6th (Tickets on sale now) and they will be headlining the King Tut's tent at
T in the Park on Sunday July 9th (Tickets on sale Friday Feb. 17)
February 9, 2006 Scream album delayed
The new as yet untitled Scream album is apparently not due for release until this summer apparently.
Source: unknown
Scream announce first festival appearance of the year
Primal Scream are scheduled to play
Nokia Isle of Wight Festival on June 10th.
Tickets are on sale now and are avaiable here
Source: NME.com
January 9, 2006 Scream to play The 5 night stand
Primal Scream are scheduled to play XFM's "5 Night Stand" on Janaury 21st(?) i presume. Tickets can only be won. See
XFM Scotland's website for details
