Playing Manchester twice in the space of one week, what more could a Mancunian Primal Scream fan ask for?
Following Wednesday Night’s XFM Winter Wonderland Gig at the O2 Apollo with Jake Bugg and The 1975, Sunday’s line-up looks equally as mouth-watering.
Support comes not only from Temples (surely the best new band of 2013) but also superstar DJ Andrew Weatherall.
Weatherall is the man responsible for the remix of Primal Scream’s I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have, which, after Bobby Gillespie had given instructions to ‘abuse the track’ evolved into the beast that we now know as Loaded.
Sunday night’s gig is Primal Scream’s last of 2013, a year that once again has proved that despite their advancing years, they are still wholly relevant in today’s musical landscape.
It is genuinely difficult to think of any other acts this year who have released anything as culturally pertinent as songs like 2013, Cultureside and Tenement Kid.
Taken from More Light, their most critically acclaimed work since 2000’s XTRMNTR, the album has also spawned, not only a guest vocal from Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant on Eliminator Blues, but also one of the best singles of the 2013 in the shape of Its Alright, Its OK.
A number of inspired festival performances over the summer showed Bobby Gillespie to still be the proverbial indie pop star and also showed why Primal Scream are still such a huge live attraction, possibly being a better live act now than they have ever been.
The prospect of a set list including the likes of Moving On Up, Rocks, Country Girl, Swastika Eyes, Higher Than The Sun, Come Together and Loaded as well as tracks from one of the year’s most highly acclaimed albums, all delivered with a still genuine punk-rock ethos, will surely make for one of the best gigs Manchester has seen this year.
Primal Scream play The Academy, Manchester on December 15.
Image courtsy of Quique Lopez, with thanks
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