Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year

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Unlike a lot of musician's autobiographies, the parts about music - the creation, the inspiration, the process - are fascinating and revealing. Then there’s the likes of 1994’s “Give Out…” a bloated mess, which was like listening to a pub band doing half-hearted Stones covers. The caption for the photo of Primal Scream in circa 1990 was also amended as the given positions of Robert Young and Andrew Innes were transposed in an earlier version.

And who doesn't miss the times when you could turn up and play a live gig to a packed venue on an instrument you'd never even touched before, no rehearsal.Once it gets going though, this is a great read for any fan of Primal Scream - or even those with a passing interest - and it added to my knowledge (I had no idea he was ever in Altered Images or the rightly forgotten Factory band, the Wake for example).

Bobby Gillespie has some great stories to tell about his life and his artistic journey up to the release of Primal Scream's album "Screamadelica.The minutiae of the early Creation years is especially fascinating to me but his descriptions of the ecstatic nights that led to their embrace of house music brings it all back in full color.

We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. Building like a breakbeat crescendo to the Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall in an East Sussex field, as the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nation's consciousness, TENEMENT KID closes with the release of Screamadelica, the album often credited with 'starting the '90s'. I’d been doing promo in France for the record I just did, Utopian Ashes, with Jehnny Beth, and I had to self-isolate… Making Utopian Ashes felt very vulnerable, country soul. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. BG When I attempted to stop taking drugs and drinking, what helped more than anything was making a commitment to getting up in the morning, getting dressed and going somewhere, swimming, an NA [narcotics anonymous] meeting.But when the Jesus and Mary Chain treat their audiences with drugged-out contempt, it’s the dernier cri in cool: he finds the violence it provokes hilarious until his girlfriend gets bottled. And there’s quite a lot of political rants (given his dad was a leading trade unionist) which get repetitive after a while.

yet there’s a lot of interesting trivia for the Primal Scream fan – I never knew that Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye was part of Psychocandy’s recording process! There is a lot of good stuff in here, particularly about the burgeoning Indie music scene taking shape in Scotland in the late 70s and early 80s, with the likes of Altered Images, Strawberry Switchblade and the JAMC.Gillespie takes the reader on a step by step process of everything and explains the roles all the characters have and what they are doing now. Although there’s plenty of boyhood and teenage street life and football action, he avoids the usual clichés about first love/sexual/drug experience etc. Though we could have done without the many drug related stories, which for want of a better expression, are just not very interesting and just come across as cringe worthy. Bobby Gillespie is just under a month older than me - and I once saw him having a Father's Day lunch in the Delauney in London while doing the same - I also learnt from this book that I probably saw him drumming for Altered Images in Edinburgh many years ago - although like the rest of the audience can only remember Claire Grogan.