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News Archives - 1999December 17, 1999Primal Scream have added more dates to their March tour of the UK.The band are already set to play: Edinburgh Corn Exchange (March 13)Manchester Ritz (14) London Hammersmith Palais (15) Due to popular demand, the band will now also appear at: Nottingham Rock City (March 8)Sheffield Octagon (9)Norwich UEA (10) Newcastle University (12) Speaking last week about the concept behind the Scream's new album 'Exterminator', out on January 31 through Creation, Bobby Gillespie said: "We're building an autobahn from Cologne to Detroit." He was referring to the album's eclectic influences, which he claims take in all points from leftfield US bands like Underground Resistance through to European bands like Kraftwerk and Can. For tour tickets, call the 24-hour NME Virgin Cola Ticketline on 0870 1 663 663 or click here to buy them online. The new Primal Scream album "XTMNTR" (Exterminator) will be the last album released on Creation records. Read about it at NMEwebsite. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 December 13, 1999Exterminator release dateThe new Primal Scream album, Exterminator, is due to be released January 31, 2000. Here's the final track listing: Kill All Hippies Accelerator Exterminator Swastika Eyes (Spectre mix) Pills Blood Money Keep Your Dreams Insect Royalty MBV Arkestra I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brothers mix) Shoot Speed Kill Light From December 11 issueNME December 1, 1999Yet More Album DetailsPRIMAL SCREAM's new album will be called 'Exterminator' and it will be in the shops in the first quarter of the new year, though the release date hasn't yet been finalised. The tracklisting on the promo versions currently circulating is 'Kill All Hippies' 'Accelerator' 'Exterminator' 'Swastika Eyes' 'Insect Royalty' 'Arkestra' 'I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time' 'Keep Your Dreams' 'Swastika Eyes' 'Shoot Speed Kill Light' It's an incredible progression from the dense mesh of dub sound that characterized 'Vanishing Point' (writes James Oldham). Featuring "contributions" from Brendan Lynch, David Holmes, The Automator and - once again - Kevin Shields, it stretches from the rattling discordant instrumental 'Blood Money' to the juddering almost industrial electro 'Exterminator' - with its caustic references to "concentration camps" and "prostitutes" and furious high frequency noise bursts. The two best tracks are simply breathtaking. 'Accelerator' (which features Kevin Shields on guitar) is four minutes of breaking glass guitars and wall of feedback production, which comes on like a gonzo '60s garage record. The sheer depth of its innovation is matched only by 'Pills', a clinical, whirring hip hop track with faded in speech and the lyrics - "You ain't nothing/You've got nothing to say/Shine a light on you/You fade away" - looped up and feverish throughout. Like we say, it's a great record. Just not one you're going to be humming on the way to the shops. And it's hard to equate that with Gillespie's continued desire for stardom. He, though, doesn't see it like that. "What I mean," Gillespie told NME recently, "about bands like PIL and Joy Division is that they wrote about the time they lived in. They feel like and define that time - '79 to '80. That's all I meant. We wanted to make a record that reflects what it's like to live in Britain at this point, both sound wise and lyrically. It's well documented that you think "rock is dead." Can you explain what you mean by that, and where exactly that leaves Primal Scream? "All I'm saying is that to me, it feels like rock'n'roll is leaving the world. It's like free jazz and people like Coltrane and Sun Ra, they've gone and when they left the world that music left the world. We've got it recorded, but no one can or will play music like that anymore. That's just the way things go. It's the same in rock'n'roll. I don't hear anyone playing it apart from Royal Trux." "We're a rock'n'roll group. We've got the soul, the feeling, the attitude, the electricity. We're fucking with styles, we're merging them, we're taking them somewhere new and different. Not for the sake of it, but because we've got the feeling inside us. It's a path you've got to follow. You've got to get out there. You can't stay in a darkened room...you've just got to get out there. We are doing something different, that must be obvious." Is that Primal Scream's current mission statement? "Yeah, we stand for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll," he smiles, before adding,"but seriously we're a great fucking rock'n'roll band. And I think we make great fucking music. And that's it. Alright?" Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 McGee Leave Creation in 2000 I'm not sure what this means for the Scream. Read the details at the Creation website. Also check out the Guardian website for more details of his future and what November 19, 19992000 World Tour?PRIMAL SCREAM play their first UK gigs for two years in March next year. They start their world tour in Singapore on January 20 then play Australia's Big Day Out festivals as well as some other headliners there and in Japan. Supports have yet to be confirmed, but DJ on the show will be collaborator David Holmes. The dates are at: Edinburgh Corn Exchange (March 13) Manchester Ritz (14) London Hammersmith Palais (15) Primal Scream will also be dj-ing at the Satpal Ram Benefit at the London Cross Scala Kings on Monday November 22, alongside Asian Dub Foundation, Daddy G from Massive Attack, Richard Norris, Kris Needs, Annie Nightingale, and a live set from Invasian. Tickets for the Primal Scream shows are not on sale until November 22 but will be available through the nme.com Virgin Cola Ticketshop on 0870 1 663 663. Calls are charged at national standard rate. Online booking will be available soon. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 Primal Scream, ADF and Irvine Welsh chain... PRIMAL SCREAM, Asian Dub Foundation, Mark Thomas and Irvine Welsh chained themselves to the Home Office yesterday to raise awareness on the plight of Satpal Ram - an Asian man jailed 13 years ago for defending himself from a racist attack. Bobby Gillespie and Mark Thomas entered the Home Office buildings in an attempt to present Home Secretary Jack Straw with a petition, asking for Satpal's release but were told Mr Straw wouldn't be able to talk to them directly. The Primals and ADF have long backed Satpal's bid for freedom and have highlighted his treatment at the hands of the prison authorities. Since being jailed, he's been moved from prison to prison 59 times and has endured constant spells in solitary confinement. Bobby Gillespie told NME: "I literally believe they'll try to kill him, they'll try to break his spirit, they won't break his spirit, but at some point he may well be murdered. "It's unjust, it's wrong and that's why we're here." ADF and Primal Scream will DJ at a special 'Free Satpal Ram' benefit night at London's Scala venue on Monday night (November 22). Tickets are £8, 0171 771 2000. For more information on the 'Free Satpal Ram' campaign, check out ADF's website or The Free Satpal Ram website See next week's NME for a full report on the demo. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 November 12, 1999Kill All Hippies Song PreviewedListen to Kill All Hippies from the forthcoming Primal Scream album on Creation Radio. The new album is due out early 2000. The next Primal Scream single will be Kill All Hippies or Exterminator apparently according to Alan McGee on this Creation Radio show. McGee also said he thinks the forthcoming Primal Scream record is the best thing Creation's released since My Bloody Valetine's Loveless record. Joe Foster thinks it will be another groundbreaking record just as Screamadelica was. November 7, 1999Video and Album DetailsPrimal Scream wage war on fascism Gillespie and co restage low-budget high-concept battle of Stalingrad on new video... PRIMAL SCREAM's video for new single 'Swastika Eyes' features them dressed as Red Army soldiers and a cameo by supermodel Sophie Dahl. In the video, the band are chased by an unidentified enemy until they end up in a field camp policed by female commandants, played by top fashion models including Sophie Dahl. It was directed by fashion photographer Terry Richardson and the director of photography was Alan Sherrod, who worked on Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Primals singer Bobby Gillespie was keen to explain the message behind the song and video to avoid any danger of misinterpretation or accusations of the band flirting with fascist imagery. He told NME: "We thought 'swastika eyes' was a good image, a great insult applicable to any authoritarian figures whether it be the head of a multinat ional corporation, the President Of The United States, a policeman, a prison warden, you know, anyone like that. "The song's about modern fascism, multinational militarism, the United States' international fucking terrorism... That's why we used the image, to get attention. We're using it provocatively to shake people up." The band, who release 'Swastika Eyes' on November 8 through Creation, have also revealed details of other tracks from their as-yet-untitled sixth stud io LP, out early next year. It is the follow-up to their last studio album proper, 1997's 'Vanishing Point'. As well as the single, the new tracks include 'Kill Hippies', 'Five Years A head Of My Time', 'Accelerator', 'Keep Your Dreams', which was produced by David Holmes, 'Exterminator' and 'Pills', which was produced by Dan The Automator. The band have also revealed they will be debuting material from their long- awaited new album in the Far East. The Primals' first date for more than a year-and-a-half will be in Singapore on January 20. On January 23 they join the Big Day Out festival which tours Australia and then they head to Japan . A Primals spokesperson said the band would not be playing the UK until next year. He said the band were looking at "various ideas" for their UK dates, as they were striving to do gigs that were slightly different. The dates are currently being organised and should be announced soon. See next week for a full Primal Scream interview. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 Bob and DIV Live See Death In Vegas live webcast on nme.com this weekend Bobby G, Jim Reid and guests join DIV for live webcast from London... You will be able to watch DEATH IN VEGAS' London show this weekend live here as it happens on nme.com. The NME Premier show features DIV with guest vocalists Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream and ex-Mary Chain man Jim Reid as well as Dot Allison. There's still a question mark over whether Iggy Pop will do the show, though according to the DIV camp nobody has yet said yes or no. Meanwhile, the Richard Fearless/Will Beaven (of Regular Fries) design partnership will stage their two art installations in Paris and London on December 2 and 9 this year. The Sucker Installations incorporate film, art and music; Richard will be customising strips of denim which will then be auctioned for charity at the Levi's store in London's Regent Street. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 October 25, 1999New Album PreviewHear a preview of Pills from the new Primal Scream album on Creation Radio. They are apparently going to preview more songs soon. You will need Real Player G2. Another Swastika Eyes Promo 12" Primal Scream have released another promo of Swastika eyes with exclusive remixes not avaiable on the regular release. Check out the discography for more details September 28, 1999New Album DetailsPRIMAL SCREAM are coming back with an album that makes cats piss themselves-official! The album, set to be released in January, is currently still untitled. But The Maker has had a sneak preview - and we can certainly believe the experience of one source close to the band who took a tape home, whacked it up loud, and was amazed to see his cat lose control. A single, "Swastika Eyes (War Pigs)", is due for release by Creation atthe beginning of November. A dancey track produced by The Chemical Brothers, it's unrepresentative of the rest ofthe album. Hard house bordering on techno, it sounds exactly like one description we heard last week: "A couple of pills down your neck at five o'clock in the morning in a club, having it." Warped guitars, noises and heavilytreated vocals are the prominent features, with Bobby Gillespie accusing, "You got Swastika eyes" on the chorus. Elsewhere, the album pitches moments of real beauty, with one track recalling "Shine Like Stars" from "Screamadelica", againstothersofscuzzy funkiness reminiscent of "Kowalski" and other down-and- dirtytriumphs from "Vanishing Point". This side of things suggests some sort of musical cross between early Public Image and Doctor Octagon. The titles of the album tracks are still changing. One we heard is called "Exterminator" at the moment, and it's as sleazy as they come, opening with a funky bass rift from Mani and working itself into a barrage of filthy, distorted noise, as Gillespie pronounces that, "We're all prostitutes, we're all prostitutes ". It has a definite groove, although it's not the sort of track you'd expect to hear in the clubs. Another cut, "Pills", begins with a hiphop beat and Gillespie scat rapping, "I'm gonna tell the truth, the truth about you ". Orchestral samples join the layers of noise in an almost overwhelming build, as Gillespie's scathing lyrical attack explodes in an outburst of swearing. If "Vanishing Point" was the album which found the Primals finally able to fulfil their musical ideas, this seems very much a natural continuation. Contributing again is My Bloody Valentines Kevin Shields on guitar. (He has also recently been workingon the new Dinosaurjr album with J Mascis.) Of the rest ofthe album, one source said: "It's very dark. If you thought that the last one was dark, be very afraid." Morale in the Primals' camp is said to be "really, really good", with the band reportedly "very, very happy with what they are doing and bouncing around like f***ing kids". In other cheerful news from the band, lead guitarist Throb last week became the proud father of a baby boy. Originally appeared Melody Maker September 18, 1999. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 September 18, 1999Just IN! According to Creation's website, Swastika Eyes will be out on November 8th.New Primal Scream single According to NME Online: Primal Scream will release a brand new single 'Swastika Eyes (War Pigs)' on November 1 through Creation Records. The single, which has been co-produced by the Chemical Brothers, is taken from the Primals' still-untitled follow up to 1997's 'Vanishing Point' album, now nearing completion in a north London studio. The album is slated for release in the New Year but white label copies of the new single are expected to be circulated among DJs 'imminently', according to a spokesman for the band. 'Swastika Eyes' is one of three new tracks played to NME last week and it sounds, just as Bobby Gillespie claimed in July: "really up, really heavy and propulsive". The high-bpm track features a verse of: "Your soul don't burn/you dark the sun/you reign down fire on everyone", before the chorus: "He's got swastika eyes/She's got swastika eyes." It's the band's most 'dance-orientated' material yet and follows in the tradition of Primal Scream's hard socialist political stance. The two other as-yet-untitled songs are also dark, heavy dance tunes, one of which features Bobby aggressively rapping over a break beat: "I'll tell you the truth/You've got nothing to say/Shine a light on you and you fade away". Although the new album features David Holmes, Kevin Shields and the Chemicals, a spokesman for the band was quick to point out the new record was "not a remix album." He said: "This album does feature other people on mixing duties and additional production but it's all Primal Scream. "It's a dynamite record." No UK dates are planned for this year, but the band are tipped to play around March 2000. [I wonder if Bobby's been listening to Black Sabbath lately! - Jeff] Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 Primal Scream on MTV2 Primal Scream appeared on HOWARD MARKS presents an evening of chemical TV last Friday, September 10 at 9 pm, featuring interviews with Noel Gallagher, Shaun Ryder, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode and Primal Scream all talking about their substances of choice.[Hopefully they will replay it soon or archive it - Jeff] Howard Marks will also be selecting hi choice of music videos including Leftfield, Jimi Hendrix and Super Furry Animals. High Night is on MTV 2 on Friday September 10 at 9 pm GMT. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. © IPC Magazines Ltd. 1999. All rights reserved. Burning Wheel Live on the Web You might want to check out this live version of Burning Wheel archived at the MTV 2 website. DIV vs. Primals Bob sings on the new Death in Vegas CD called the Cantino sessions on Concrete records. The track is called "Soul Auctioneer." NME sez it's a very scream-like album. Here's there review of it from NMEwebsite. In 1963, Andy Warhol said, "I like boring things. I like things to be exactly the same over and over again." Warhol didn't mean that he was bored by things, he meant that the more you look or listen to exactly the same thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel. Richard Fearless, 27, committed Warhol fan, the man who is ostensibly Death In Vegas and the man who has created the most astonishing album you're likely to hear all year, knows exactly what the pop artist meant. He and his Death In Vegas partner, Tim Holmes, know that in music today, meaning is nothing and feeling is everything. It is better to articulate emotion in any form than to try to say something, because there's nothing left to say and it's increasingly difficult to find anything to care about. Listen to 'The Contino Sessions' and you hear the same thing over and over again, but you never get bored; just as Fearless took as this record's blueprint the endlessly looped, piled-upon garage splendour of Spiritualized's 'Electric Mainline': nobody's saying anything. There's no need. If you liked Fearless' first album, 1997's bruising but unfocused 'Dead Elvis', then prepare to be surprised. Because here is a record that harnesses that record's searing, if misdirected energy to its author's love of rock's notorious underclass - the Velvets, The Stooges, the Mary Chain, the Scream, erm, Neu!: outsiders all - and in doing so fashions a curiously tender, black-hearted modern soul classic; the last great record of the millennium, if we're being pretentious. And hell, why not? There's such a paucity of real, transparently obvious talent out there that it's actually a sheer joy to celebrate a record which stays true to its creators' (admittedly rather bleak) grand vision; a record which manages to combine the excesses and inspired musical mandate of both 'Screamadelica' and 'The Velvet Underground And Nico' while maintaining a level-headed, unimpeachable urban cool. And, appropriately in these information-saturated times, 'The Contino Sessions' is an album that means nothing and is purely about the music. Really, it's all about the feeling. It helps, of course, that Fearless has drafted in his heroes and asked them to interpret his music as best they see fit. There's Bobby Gillespie, sneering lines like, "Eggs bearing insects hatching in my mind" over wired narcotic hip-hop on 'Soul Auctioneer', and Jim Reid, although his turn on the decidedly Mary Chain-esque bleached noise of 'Broken Little Sister' is the album's only weak link. And famously, there is Iggy Pop, whose wide-eyed and unrepentant serial killer soliloquy, 'Aisha', complements perfectly Fearless and Holmes' spiked cocktail of defiant AC/DC drumming and mangled Krautrock. His finest moment since The Stooges say many. Er, 'great', mumbles everyone else. There are songs of alluring beauty, too, which serve to dilute the album's otherwise impervious and claustrophobic eau de smack. Like the brittle organ wheeze of 'Lever Street' and the Felt-gone-gospel slo-mo shimmy of 'Aladdin's Story', or 'Neptune City''s deceptively sprightly brass-parping finale, a song that says, shakily, as only instrumentals can, "Well we got there in the end, didn't we? And wasn't it bloody marvellous?" 'The Contino Sessions' can mean whatever you want it to. All we know is that it feels amazing. Warhol also said that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Death In Vegas' glory starts now. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 August 11, 1999Attention Stone Roses FansPhantom Worldwide (Ireland's only dedicated internet broadcaster) presents live in studio The Complete Stone Roses along with Mani (ex-Stone Roses now with Primal Scream) for an informal chat on Friday August 13th at 7:00pm GMT. Join host Tom E. Brown for this internet exclusive. Tune in at www.phantomfm.com Can't tune in? Then watch our site for re-broadcast notices. For More Information: on this interview contact Neill Austin (AKA Tom E Brown) at: neillaustin@clubi.ie Phantom Worldwide is an internet radio station which specialises in indie rock with a focus on Irish bands. Phantom Worldwide broadcasts live from 18:00 to 00:00 GMT weekdays and 10:00am to 00:00 GMT weekends. If you want to knows what's happening in Irish rock tune in to Phantom Worldwide: www.phantomfm.com For More Information: on Phantom Worldwide contact info@phantomfm.com June 30, 1999PRIMAL SCREAM have been working with David Holmes on their forthcoming as-yet-untitled album.The band were inspired to work with Holmes after hearing the music he had written for a '1.5million Absolut Vodka advert. Taking the track as the model, they rerecorded it as 'Sick City' with added vocals. Holmes also collaborates on another new Scream track called 'Gun Shy'. Described by Holmes as "jazz punk", it features a brass section. As for the work the band have done so far with Kevin Shields, Holmes told NME it "sounds like Joy Division with a 4/4 beat". The Chemicals Brothers are tipped to work on a track titled 'The Girl With The Swastika Eyes'. NME understands a white label of the high-bpm track will be released to DJs next month. Meanwhile, a new Primal Scream single is planned for release this autumn, with the LP following in the new year through Creation. Bobby Gillespie countered Mani's claims in NME last week that the new album sounded like "Abba, The Real Thing and Frankie Goes To Hollywood". Gillespie, who didn't want to give anything away, told NME: "It's not mixed yet, but so far it's really up, really heavy-sounding and propulsive. It's different from the last one (1997's 'Vanishing Point'), but we've just got to get it finished. I want people to hear it as a whole, because the tracks are so different from each other." Originally appeared at the NME website. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 June 24, 1999The new Primal Scream Album is due out early 2000! A Single will appear first this fallPRIMAL SCREAM have finished recording their long-awaited new album - and they claim it sounds like Abba! The band, who have been holed up in their studio in London's Primrose Hill solidly this year, are now getting the final mixes of tracks completed. One track, with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, has already been finished, and both Nellee Hooper and The Chemical Brothers are also set to mix a track. A single is planned for release in the autumn, and the LP, which the band have produced themselves, will follow early in the new year on Creation. Bass player Mani, speaking at new London Piccadilly venue The Rock'N'Roll Bar where he was DJing last week (June 11), said that the album sounded like, "Abba, The Real Thing and Frankie Goes To Hollywood." A spokesman for the band agreed that it was hard to categorise the album, but added that the Shields remix of 'If They Move Kill 'Em' from the band's 1997 LP 'Vanishing Point' had proved to be a "great influence" on the direction of the new material. One track already completed is the Primals' version of the Third Bardo's 'I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time', which the band played during the 'Vanishing Point' tour. But rumours of a track called 'Nazi Disco' proved to be somewhat wide of the mark. "There is a disco track," the spokesman laughed, "but it's not called that, although I can see why someone would say so. The rhythm of it is really hard and crunchy and it sounds like marching. It's a real fuck of a disco tune, basically." He added that the band also hoped to embark on a UK tour around the time of the album's release. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 June 22, 1999Bobby Gillespie apears on back-up vocals on a song called Out of Control from the Chemical Brothers new album called Surrender New rder's Bernard Sumner wrote the vocals and lyrics.Mani lovers will be happy to know he will be a DJ at Fuji Rock Festival on August 1st. [Thanks satoko] It's rummoured that Denise Johnson is going to release a solo album. [Thanks Robert] A Primal Scream track appears on the new Any Weatherall mix 2CD/3LP. Andrew Weatherall/Richard Fearless: Heavenly Presents Live At The Social Volume 3 on React Records. The press I read reads: Primal Scream (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix). I assume this is their mix of Stuka. This out now. May 2, 1999Andrew Innes QuotedThis is an interesting quote that appears on the back of the new 2 Lone Swordsmen (Andy Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood) CD called "Stay Down." "Sometimes in a fight it's best to just stay down" (a. innes) It evidentally inspired/influenced Weatherall since he named his album from part of the quote. 2 Lone Swordsmen vs. Primal Scream Again! 2 Lone Swordsmen are working in the studio right now remixing a forthcoming Scream track.[Thanks rab!] March 24, 1999Primal Scream 'Vanish' into StudioPrimal Scream are currently in the studio working on the follow-up album to 1997's 'Vanishing Point' - their sixth studio album since 1987's 'Sonic Flower Groove'. Bobby Gillespie is yet to reveal details but he joked that the band were also planning to make a road movie in the style of the 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop, which starred the late Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and singer/songwriter James Taylor. Gillespie said: "We're getting into underground movies, man. It's going to have to have somebody in it who doesn't mind not speaking very much because we haven't written a screenplay yet. Like in Two-Lane Blacktop the dudes don't really speak much, they just look cool. So maybe I'll do it." Bobby Gillespie reveals influences for follow-up to acclaimed album, 'Vanishing Point'... Originally appeared at the NME website. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION have almost finished their new album, the follow-up to 1998's 'Rafi's Revenge', and plan another benefit gig for Satpal Ram. ADF are now recording 14 tracks at London Farringdon's Roundhouse Studio including 'Memory War', 'Real Great Britain', 'Scaling New Heights', 'New Way, New Life', 'Riddim I Like', 'Kooligans' and 'Officer XX', inspired by the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry. The as-yet-untitled album is scheduled for release this autumn. The band also plan to team up with Primal Scream to play another benefit show in the summer for Satpal Ram, theAsian man jailed in 1986 for defending himself against a racist attack. The two bands teamed up last March for a similar show. ADF bassist Dr Das told NME: "We went to see Satpal recently and as usual it was a really good meeting. He really inspires people, it helps us focus." Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and manager Alex Nightingale visited Satpal - who still protests his innocence - in jail recently. Gillespie told NME: "He was in good spirits and he just wanted you to know as a result of the pieces you printed he's been getting a lot of support from around the world." Since NME's last piece on Satpal Ram, his case has been taken up by Amnesty and Birmingham Six lawyer GarethPierce. If you want to send a letter of support, write to: Satpal Ram, E94 164, HMP Frankland, Brasside, Durham DH1 5YD. Originally appeared at the NME website. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 March 22, 1999Hot News from Anon Source"Andrew had been doing a remix for a Japanese band (name coming soon) in Kevin Shield's studio. And the one track with Kevin for the new album, Bob described it as being very punk in an Iggy/Stooges kinda way. He said that it sounds awesome. Very guitar driven." My source also said "I think the new album is going to be more of a return to the Rock 'n' Roll feel of yore. Which surprised me a little." So those rumours of a more experimental sound mappear to be false. March 5, 1999Bob appears on a track on the new Chemical Brother's album. Here's what NME said: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS' new album is called 'Surrender' will be released this summer Sumner and Bobby Gillespie team up on a track called 'Out Of Control'.Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 February 26, 1999Mani on new AlbumWhat's the state of play with Primal Scream? "We're in a bit of murky water at the minute with this publishing company who are trying to screw us for another LP when we've already fulfilled the thing with them. So once again it's this court monkey business that follows Gary Mounfield about, man. It's put the breaks on it for a bit. We've got songs but we're just a bit reluctant to record them just in case this label says we want them now. We wanna get a new deal and then it's buzz for us. What we have written is staggering. It's punk, rock, dub, The Who, The Stooges on "Raw Power", everything. It's just a step on from "Vanishing Point" again. It's a lot more experimental as well. That's what I like about it, it's dangerous." I'm not sure when this article appeared, but it sort of contradicts the more recent news about the Primes album coming out later this year. Originally appeared at the Muse Copyright © Muse ? not sure when this appeared February 19, 1999Bob contributes on new DIV albumWe've done a track with Bobby Gillespie on it and one with Iggy Pop. We actually wrote the track 'Soul Auctioneer' with Bobby in mind and then we gave him a tape of it and he was up for it. It's a quite dark track, it puts you in the mind of Dr. Octagon or something." The Death in Vegas album is called The Cantino Sessions and comes out in February/March apparently. Originally appeared at the Select Feb 1999 issue Copyright © EMAP Metro 1999 February 10, 1999New album News....Shields did say he had been working in his home studio and has mixed one song on the forthcoming Primal Scream album, due out this year. He said: "It's not really a remix like the one I did last time with them ('If They Move Kill 'Em' from 1997's 'Vanishing Point'), which was a single. My version will appear on the album." He refused to elaborate further about what the track was called, or what direction the Scream were currently moving in. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. Copyright © IPC Magazine Ltd. 1999 More on New Album Apparently a vocal version of Insect Royalty and also Five years ahead of my time (The Third Bardot) song that they did a while back with Liam Gallagher and members of Can will be on the album. Scottish Radio Session from 1998 The Scream also did a new song a while back for a session on the jazz program on Radio Scotland, called something like Cyclonia (Enter teh Iceman) so I suppose they could be looking to include that. I did record the session, but promptly lost it afterwards. They did that new song (Insect Royalty) and new takes on a couple of old ones, but I can't remember which. There was an interview with Duffy and Innes about how The scream have been influenced by jazz. Oh thats right, they did "Get Duffy" as well. [Thanks Jim Connick from the Stukas mailing list] January 30, 1999Bobby and Bernie Scream TogetherNEW ORDER's Bernard Sumner has collaborated on a track for the new Primal Scream album, which is being slated for release later this year. Sumner, who revealed last week that he'd also collaborated with The Chemical Brothers on their forthcoming album, said: "I've just been with Bobby working on a Primals track. It's hard to say what it's going to sound like when it's finished but at the moment it's pretty raw. I've got loads of respect for Bobby Gillespie." No further information is available about Primal Scream's forthcoming album, although it's known that Gillespie and the rest of the band have been working in their Primrose Hill studio almost constantly since 'Vanishing Point' came out in summer 1997. Originally appeared at the NMEwebsite. 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