Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie brands coalition government ‘quasi-fascists’


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Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie has labelled the current UK coalition government as a group of ‘reactionary, neo-liberal, quasi-fascists’ during an interview with Faster Louder.

“I hate the fucking coalition,” he tells the website. “Obviously I hate what they stand for – they’re reactionary, neo-liberal, quasi-fascists. The health secretary wants to limit abortions to 13 weeks. This is the kind of mad people you’re dealing with. This is supposedly a rational, progressive country. We’re dealing with fucking insane people.”

Later, the singer also criticised David Cameron and Barack Obama for ‘always wanting to be a part of the establishment’ and distancing themselves from the various youth movements of Gillespie’s past such as punk and acid house.

“The people in charge of the world just now, people like David Cameron and Obama, they’re in their mid-40s,” he continued. “Punk rock never affected those people. They could have been touched by acid house. Acid house was the same kind of thing; it was a really positive, creative, uplifting time.”

“Because of the ecstasy it was really all about communications, making connections with people. Guys like Cameron, they’re untouched by it, from day one, they always wanted to be part of an establishment.”

More revolutionary chatter will doubtless continue next year when Primal Scream are due to release their tenth studio album.


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