One of the bios of the time - possibly Grant Fleming's - tells of Duffy not being in his room the morning after a show, and the tour manager's panic -- nobody had been with him the night before, no-one knew what locals may have led him "astray" - and having to give up and get the rest of the band on to the next town.
Where Duffy was already at the venue, having crawled inside a riser and passed out after playing, remaining asleep not only through Depeche Mode's set, but also being packed up by Depeche's crew, shipped through the night, and arising well-rested when roadies unpacked him at bump-in.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 20 August 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Funnily enough the Wombles were at their messiest at the same time.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Monday, 20 August 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
I still haven't heard the original Memphis recordings of Give Out But Don't Give Up yet, but I listened to the version as released in 1994 last night and - while it's no Screamadelica, Vanishing Point or XTRMNTR, and it sounds like a very confused record - I thought that there's actually quite a lot that's enjoyable about the record. I mustn't have heard the record for well over a decade or two.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
lol these original Memphis recordings are kind of a hilarious nothingburger. Like yeah you can see what they were going for but they really just couldn't quite do it. Lots of farting about doing half-assed covers not particularly well, and the "original versions" are mostly just super-cleanly recorded/stripped down arrangements without all the (often bad) bells and whistles stuck on after the fact.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
I do have a morbid fascination with this album and find it kinda funny/entertaining how badly they fucked this up - they had a budget, tons of great collaborators, a pretty good (if muddled) idea, a great studio to work in, but they couldn't get the songs and performances together.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
Your problem is you don't like black music.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
o rly
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
You'd get it if you followed sports especially basketball.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
(xp) That's the reason Bob gave why UK rock critics didn't like the album, so it must be true.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
our wee Boaby wouldna lie to us now
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
pls let’s not talk about our wee boabies itt, this is a family thread
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Are the spoken word bits on "Kill All Hippies" a sample from somewhere?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 20 March 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Out of the Blue dir. Dennis Hopper 1980
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
p weird, bleak movie, sort of a hippie meditation on their generational failings and punk as the response
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
I fucking love that track
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 20 March 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
so good
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
I have just discovered "XTRMNTR" today and I'm super impressed.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 20 March 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
! probably their best record
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
‘shoot speed kill light’ is so good
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
It is. I literally just heard Screamadelica two weeks ago and have known XTRMNTR for twenty years. It’s a disorienting thing.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 March 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
Wow. I’ve always thought of XTRMNTR as the inverse of Screamadelica. They’re structured very similarly.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
Agreed. From multiple mixes of the same song to radical remixes of tunes from the last record.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
Bobby's Insta always delivers: https://www.instagram.com/primalscreamofficial/
― fetter, Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/ThurstonMooreOfficial/photos/a.164674653592590/3598726446854043/?type=3 (hope this works)
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 11 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
Damn. It’s a funny photo!
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 11 October 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
https://imgur.com/gallery/rlmYUzr
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 11 October 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Ugh, sorry
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 11 October 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
You can't embed a web page, it has to be an image https://i.imgur.com/Os99C7S.jpg
Yo Bobby G!!!!!!!!🤘🔥❤️@primalscreamofficial Witnessed blinding gig last nite by @thurstonmoore58 @cafeotodalston TM & James Shredwards straffing on twin guitar sonic attack whilst our darling @googoogiegoo anchored the sound w/ stone solid bass rhythms allowing the boys to fly around her ( sonically speaking ! ) freely safe in the knowledge they had a safe place to land again after their psyche zonked astral ( guitar ) adventure's - all needle frequency angular solos spiralling into hypnotic drones which sucked out our skulls and spewed out our brains and it felt real good, lemme tell you people. It was a Zoom only type affair so only fifteen of us lucky ones got to see it in the flesh. Such a blast to see a proper r & r band play again and it sure did blast away de ol' lockdown blues. 🎸⭐️🎸 Photograph by Brother @jamesendeacott
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Sunday, 11 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
pic has got a lot of "day release from Monster Mansion" energy.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 October 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
Hilarious
Siri show me 'an almost transcendental lack of self-awareness' please. (From Bobby Gillespie's book). pic.twitter.com/EB0tGFmc7O— ⚫Neil Kulkarni (@KaptainKulk) May 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 May 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
He's beyond parody but I'm going to keep on trying.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
lol I think all the music hacks who encouraged him for decades should bear some responsibility for his condition. Someone from literature-twitter pointed out that the Kipling quote is wrong!
― calzino, Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
All Boaby knows about Kipling is that he makes exceedingly good cakes.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:53 (two years ago) link
That truly is something else.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
Really sad to read how they treated Martin Duffy
Primal Scream really don’t come out well from this. https://t.co/9GZGirdgiT— Michael Hann (@MichaelAHann) June 7, 2023
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 June 2023 04:37 (eleven months ago) link
Not sure how that double posted
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 June 2023 04:38 (eleven months ago) link
why was this pdf posted to this particular site? (dafts...)????
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 8 June 2023 08:18 (eleven months ago) link
I watched the French movie FULL TIME yesterday. The protagonist is a hotel maid who at one point has to power-wash one room's bathroom walls because they're covered in a guest's feces. The guest is described as "the Scottish rock star" and my instantaneous mental reaction was, Wow, I wonder what inspired the screenwriter to take such a shot at Bobby Gillespie?
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 21 April 2024 19:45 (one month ago) link
Sadly I think that might be a reference to Gerry Rafferty.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
Backup option: John Martyn.
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 April 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/feb/17/gerry-rafferty-in-hiding
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 April 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link