Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie is not the biggest fan of London mayor Boris Johnson…to say the very least.
In an outspoken interview with The Guardian ahead of his band’s new album release, Gillespie describes Johnson as a ‘sinister right-wing cunt’, and goes on to heavily criticise the current UK coalition government.
“We’re living in extreme times and if you listened to modern rock music you wouldn’t know that,” Gillespie remarks. “I just think it’s odd there’s no protest, resistance or critique of what’s going down. It’s like people are tranquilised. All the rights people had fought for – people like trade unionists, anarchists, artists – are being clawed back by extremists. These people aren’t rational thinkers. Someone like Boris Johnson hides behind that bumbling public schoolboy image but he’s a sinister right-wing cunt trying to bring in anti-strike legislation, we’ve got to fight these fucking people!”
“For me, punk meant more than just some seven-inch records and good memories of seeing The Clash at the Apollo,” he continues. “For us it was the start of a creative life. I thought people touched by punk would become enlightened, non-sexist, non-racist, rational people. But not everybody will go through those phases as young people and take the same things from it. Someone like David Cameron – he’s 42, 43, he would have been ripe for acid house, but it just didn’t affect him. I’m sure these guys took drugs, had the odd line, you know, but that’s a different thing. We were doing it to get a poetic, psychedelic experience, to get some spiritual insight. The revolutions that touched our lives could never touch someone like David Cameron.”
Primal Scream will release ‘More Light‘, their tenth studio effort, on May 6th.