Bobby Gillespie with Primal Scream at the Brixton Academy, London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Primal Scream have announced some winter UK dates centred around their recent Maximum Rock’n’Roll singles collection.
After the two shows at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh this coming August, the band will reemerge as the nights draw in for a UK tour which has been arranged to visit Oxford, Southampton, Brighton, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, London, Coventry, Nottingham, Hull, Leeds, Newcastle, Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth and Glasgow in November and December.
“Right from our 1985 debut ‘All Fall Down’ onward we’ve approached singles as an aesthetic choice, a statement of where we are as a band,” Bobby Gillespie said of Maximum Rock’n’Roll. “We grew up with ‘Suffragette City’ and ‘Metal Guru’ flying out of the radio. The four Sex Pistols singles were great. ‘Public Image’ by PiL sounded like nothing else. Prince and Madonna made amazing hits. That has been our approach. I’ve always loved Top 40 pop radio, I love greatest hits albums like The Who’s ‘Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy’.”
“I remember Alan McGee saying of ‘Higher Than The Sun’: it won’t be a hit, but it will be a statement. Great singles can get out into the world and show people an alternative way of thinking. They make you feel less alone.”
Tour dates:
August
10,11 – Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens
November
19 – Oxford, O2 Academy
20 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
21 – Brighton, Dome
23 – Cardiff, University Great Hall
24 – Liverpool, O2 Academy
26 – Manchester, Albert Hall
27 – Norwich, UEA
29 – London, O2 Forum
December
1 – Coventry, Empire
3 – Nottingham, Rock City
4 – Hull, University Asylum
6 – Leeds, O2 Academy
7 – Newcastle, Boiler Shop
13 – Inverness, Ironworks
14 – Aberdeen, Music Hall
15 – Perth, Concert Hall
17 – Glasgow, Barrowland