Saturday 21 June 2008
PRIMAL SCREAM - F***k The Festivals!
There’s not many bands whose new releases I look forward to; Primal Scream are an exception, they have been one of the most consistent and hard working bands over the years, forget their naff debut, but from then on in each release has either reaffirmed or reinvented the power of rock’n’roll. From their MC5/Thunders influenced much underrated self titled second album and on to the dance groove of the groundbreaking Screamadelica, then the sleazy druggy Stones’n’Roll of Give Out But Don’t Give Up. Vanishing Point finds the Scream machine experimenting with a post dance/dub rhythms vibe. My two personal favourites are Xterminator and Evil Heat, which find the band in a harsher, angrier and more political modus operandum. Riot City Blues harks back to their more traditional heads down no nonsense boogie, but still a glorious riot of tunes. So it’s with anticipation and slight excitement I await the arrival of the next scream selection; Beautiful Future, what a great and ironic title considering all the shit that’s going down in Britain and across the world at this point in time. The festival season is also approaching, not that I’ll be attending any. Paying a small fortune to get either sunburned or soaked to the skin, drinking watered down lager watching loads of crap bands while waiting for a few good ones aint my idea of fun anymore, but no doubt there’s plenty of people looking forward to going to one of the many that are happening, me…I think I’ll turn the stereo up and spend 3 days in my garden listening to a few live bootlegs. If anyone fancies joining me, here’s a couple of Primal Scream festival appearances: Reading 1994 and T in The Park 2002 only thing is my garden's full up, so you’ll have to find an alternative venue.
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6 comments:
Thanks for share!
Primal scream the mutts nuts cheers Nuzz.
Here we go then not allowed to reply to the fascist teacher who thinks NPW is a childish cunt and not a very intelligent leftie, well it's Sad Sacks like you who try to impress your students with your oh so radical view of the world and political cool how trendy of you liking the Manic Street Ptreachers bet your students are well impressed (not) of course you being so much more intelligent than the rest of us you couldn't even find the download (WANKER), sorry must go now just off to draw a moustache on a picture of Mussolini!
No problem anon, thanks for the thanks. Indeed the mutts nuts, a slight mix-up in post above marky 1)forgot comment box
2)Slightly dodgy wording in my post,(due to my inferior intelligence no doubt) which I've ammended, it wasn't the teacher, it was someone else on the thread, but I do wonder about student/teacher relationships and all that, thanks for yer support marky
Whoo hoo! thanks Nuzz, and for the the audio junkies forum post as well - good for a laugh!
katwoman
thanks for these Nuzz! Proper band the Scream, really looking forward to the new album too....
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