Somebody's beaten up Bobby Gillespie..

haha. brilliant.

he deserved it after that nazi salute at glastonbury (there's an actual picture of it in Q this month) daft sod.

"Plenty of adjectives could be used to describe Gillespie: proud, cocky, adamant, verbose, ill-advised, rash, even stupid. Whatever one's assessment of his mental make-up or views, he was dangerous... He e-mailed a photo captioned "Jewkiller" to another Web site. It showed Gillespie doing a "Sieg Heil" salute in a T-shirt featuring a Nazi swastika."

Oh, wait, it's a different Gillespie. The difference? One was being ironic.

"The word is that Primal Scream will never let you down at a festival. Bobbie rolled on stage promising us "bad vibrations". Obviously he had decided that late on a Sunday afternoon, we'd be a bunch of zoned out festival debris needing an uncompromising Primal Scream set to kick us into shape.

Fair enough and to be honest the rest of the Scream did their best to really give the crowd some rock n roll. Mani might have put some timber on, but his bass playing is still second to none. Shame that Mr Gillespie was so out of it that he shouted tunelessly along. Not to mention an "ironic" Nazi salute and calling the crowd fucking hippies so many times that it soon lost its gloss (and by the way Bobbie – you recorded an album called Sonic Flower Groove, not us.)

Wouldn't have minded that if he hadn't screwed up lyrics, disappeared off stage whilst the rest of the band covered and subjected us to in-between song banter scripted by one of those guys who hangs around in parks drinking super-strength white cider all day. I had read that the band had flown in from the studio where they are recording their new album and would be flying straight back right after the set. I’ve actually been trying to block this thought from my mind ever since.

The crowd must have stayed for two reasons - Basement Jaxx were up next and simply to rubber-neck at a butt-clenchingly embarrassing episode from one of rock's foremost front men. Not that you would know that from the very generous review NME.com gave of the performance.

I'm a fan - the gig I saw at the Forum in 2000 still ranks as one of my favourite ever. However, I'll regale the car crash ending and then move along. Bobbie asked the crowd if they wanted his band or Basement Jaxx? By this stage the crowd was praying for New Order’s pantomime horse to come on and save the set - so a big shout for Basement Jaxx rang out. He then said in a mean drunk kind of a way "we'll play one more just to fuck yous off". The he turned round and noticed that actually only Mani was left on stage with him - their time slot was up and the rest were already backstage.

Cue lots of "bring the fucking band back on" style bluster, before eventually the mic was turned off. A security guard escorted a bewildered Bobbie back to his camper van for a black coffee and a lie down...if only a big Scouser in a top hat had been there to put his arm round Bobbie before asking “was it worth it lad?”"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

You could at least wave the cover of Give Out But Don't Give Up, Crazy Bob.

Was lunching with Guarniad columnist pal and we were ragging on him for
a) Confederate flag usage
b) so what if your dad's a union leader type
c) political screeds are drug rants; rants worse than drugs
d) bad for the left wing as is crap left-winger
e) only status as victim is as fashion victim

why do i find this hard to believe?

quoted for pwnage

He's 45 if he's a day.

He really is a hopeless dumbass, isn't he?

Too true-- how long before Lily Allen's moment of fascistic hubris...?

ah, but, which one?

Also the worst, most inarticulate and inept, parliamentary candidate I've ever seen, who lost a safer-than-safe Labour seat to the SNP into the bargain

Fortunately for him, sustaining nasal injuries had somehow not conspired to make his voice (even) worse.

I don't really mind the nazi salute, it's a bit like Rod Hull and Emu goosestepping.

Russell provoked a huge debate in the controlled/established media and all across the viral universe about two of the most serious problems facing the human race – free-market capitalism and the rape of the planet's natural resources by energy corporations and global elites. It's heavy shit he's talking about – cultural and environmental death. And for a funnyman/comedian, that's not bad, is it? He's making revolution sexy again. He's encouraging people to think. More power to him. All power to the people.

Oh, Boab Boab, you're our last hope ;_;

I think he's got "rock culture" confused with "Primal Scream."

I mean, the Melt Yourself Down album this year is the record a hungrier, more genuinely adventurous Primal Scream would once have made, instead of "More Shite," which is what they actually did make.

how long before Lily Allen's moment of fascistic hubris...?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, July 17, 2006 6:54 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most disappointing revival ever.

xp we only had to wait seven years. I think about what The Beatles achieved in the same amount of time in the 60s and I fucking despair.