Bobby Gillespie

Saturday 22 June 2024 – Get Your ROCKS Off With PRIMAL SCREAM And Their Frontman BOBBY GILLESPIE Who Is 63 Today

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22 June 2024


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Ghent, Belgium – 2015

BOBBY GILLESPIE was born on 22 June 1961 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Happy 63 to Pimal Scream‘s (for me, one of the best bands ever, on record and on stage) frontman/songwriter who started his career with countrymen The Jesus And Mary Chain .

Perfect occasion to get our rocks off.

Primal Scream: Story

New Supergroup Featuring LOL TOLHURST x BUDGIE x JACKNIFE LEE Share Ghostly 2nd Single With BOBBY GILLESPIE On Vocals

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14 September 2023


Promo photo by Louis Rodiger

New supergroup featuring The Cure drummer LOL TOLHURST (64),
BUDGIE (65), former Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer and Siouxsie‘s husband,
and Irish music producer Jacknife Lee announced their project last July. Along
with the news came the first single, the title track off the upcoming debut album,
Los Angeles, a mind-blowing electro banger with LCD Soundsystem‘s maestro
James Murphy.

For more info about this new project, you can
read the trio’s interview with NME right HERE.


Artwork album

For the second single, titled GHOSTED AT HOME,
the trio of Tolhurst-Budgie-Lee invited another famous
voice, Primal Scream‘s frontman Bobby Gillespie.

Budgie: “In life, it is rare to hear someone telling their story and
for us to recognize it as our own. It is rarer still when that story relates
to a complex, dangerous, and psychologically damaging relationship.
To induce this feeling of empathy is perhaps the gift and skill of a great
lyricist and writer. Bobby Gillespie is one of those writers.”

The new piece is a sinister, repetitive, psychotic electronic
groove with Gillespie‘s fitting spooky vocals rolling all over it.

Get ghosted.


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To Hell With Blue Monday… Get Your ROCKS Off With PRIMAL SCREAM

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Another bloody Blue Monday! Here’s a revitalizing remedy with Scottish legends
Primal Scream and a rapturous rendition of their stomping 1994 hit Rocks played
at Glastonbury Festival in 2013 with a little help from the gorgeous Haim sisters.

1-2-3-4…

Frontman Bobby Gillespie‘s new biography
Tenement Kid out 14th October.

PRIMAL SCREAM: Facebook

GILLESPIE and BETH Echo 60s Glam Duo SINATRA and HAZLEWOOD

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2 July 2021

Artists: Bobby Gillespie and Jenny Beth
Who: Frontman of Primal Scream and frontwoman of Savages

Album: UTOPIAN ASHES
Released: 2 July 2021

NME: “Rock’n’rollers singing heartbroken country duets? It sounds dystopian on
paper – but this thoughtful collaboration both surprises and delivers… On paper,
‘Utopian Ashes’ sounds like an unusual – and potentially risky – endeavour. Two of
rock’n’roll’s brightest stars (one established for decades, the other still staking a
rightful claim) teaming up to record a fictionalised pre-divorce album inspired by
classic country duets is the definition of a niche undertaking…

With ‘Utopian Ashes’, Beth and Gillespie continually harness such pain – and the
strange bravery of a couple trying desperately to keep their lives together even as
things fracture around them. It’s understated, and a quietly affecting success.”
Full review here. Score: 4/5.

Turn Up The Volume: I love Bobby, I love Jehnny and I like what they’re doing
here, but I love Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood better as their heartbreakers and tearjerkers back then – in the 60s, in the unsurpassed decade of romanticism and nostalgia – sounded/sound more authentic and more natural and Nancy & Lee had (unforgettable) hit tunes which you will not find on Utopian Ashes.

Single: Remember When We ere Lovers

Full album…

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Order info: here


Together on the cover of Rolling Stone (France)

Happy 59 To Primal Screamer BOBBY GILLESPIE!

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22 June 2021

Bobby Vooruit
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)

Robert Bernard Andrew Gillespie better know in rockbiz as
Bobby Gillespie was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 22 June 1962.

Happy 59 to the one-time drummer of The Jesus And Mary Chain and later
– in 1982 – the co-founder of the multifaceted, awesome Primal Scream gang
responsible for one of the most inventive and genre-changing LPs ever with Screamadelica, released in 1991. But the Scream nailed many more ace albums
and crackerjack corkers.

To celebrate the primal screamer’s birthday Turn Up The Volume
choose 3 (really hard to pick only three) big Scream moments…

– LOADED –
(1991)

– ROCKS –
(1994)


– KOWALSKI –
(1997)

PRIMAL SCREAM: Discography – Facebook