Primal Scream to get a new round of out-of-body experiences going this Monday. Recorded live at the Hultsfred Festival on June 17, 2000.
What they’ve been up to lately:
On 24 May 2019 the band released a third compilation album, Maximum Rock’n’Roll: The Singles. The album contains seventeen tracks spanning the period from 1986 till 2016.
In 2022 Primal Scream played at the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth. In April, the band sold song rights of fifty percent of their back catalogue to BMG. The deal involved Gillespie, Innes and the estate of Robert Young.
Martin Duffy died in December 2022 at the age of 55. Following his death, Duffy’s son, Louie, made a statement at his father’s inquest. Louie claimed that despite playing with the band for over 30 years, he was paid only as a session musician.
On 23 May 2023, Primal Scream announced that they would be performing as a 12-piece band for their upcoming tour dates, with the core line-up augmented by members of the House Gospel Choir on backing vocals, Alex White of Fat White Family on saxophone, and keyboards by former Go-Kart Mozart member Terry Miles who had also previously played with the band in Martin Duffy’s absence.
Primal Scream released the single “Love Insurrection” in July 2024 and simultaneously announced their twelfth studio album Come Ahead for release on 8 November 2024.
The band features in the book Postcards from Scotland detailing the 1980s and 1990s independent music scene in Scotland.
In 2025, the band signed an open letter in support of the hip-hop trio Kneecap which opposed a “clear, concerted attempt to censor and ultimately deplatform” the group.
Not a band to rest on their laurels, Primal Scream are still very much at it. But if you were curious as to what they sounded like twenty-five years ago – dive into this concert from the Hultsfred Festival in June 2000 and proceed cautiously through the week.
Stay safe – stay sane.
