Normally with immense excitement a band would release an album, especially their eleventh. But upon the impending Primal Scream’s new album Chaosmosis out 18/3 Scream’s Bobby Gillespie meets this with concern. Via the BBC Gillespie says:
“The music industry has been “destroyed” by streaming services”
Gone has the physical CD, soaked up by technology like Apple, Deezer, Rdio, but older music fans still demand that physical quality of holding and playing a CD. Just like vinyl, fans will someday expect a surge in digging out and dusting off their discs.
Gillespie continues to voice his concern:
“A guy here at the record company got me a Spotify account for free because I did a playlist for them.
“When the Savages album came out and I didn’t have a chance to get to the record store, I listened to the first half on there and then a couple of weeks later, I went and bought the album.
“But the digital thing has destroyed music.”
Gillespie says his teenage son “streams [music] but he also watches YouTube”.
“He loves music but he wouldn’t buy it. It’s just the culture they were born into.
“You can’t turn it back but as an artist, I have to try and express myself and the best way to do that is to make albums.”
Formed back in 1982 in Scotland, Primal Scream has built up an extensive discography winning a Mercury Award and two NMEs. I was their third album Screamadelica which gave the band their breakthrough in 1991 and built them up in popularity for the remainder of the 90s and onwards.
With a widespread tour across the USA and UK last year, Primal Scream continue performing into Spring:
29/3 -Beach Ballroom – Aberdeen
30/3 – O2 ABC Glasgow – Glasgow
3/4 – Palladium – London
28/5- Common People – Southampton
29/5 – Common People – Oxford
23/6 – Bundoran Beach – Bundoran, Ireland
24/6 – Bundoran – Beach -Bundoran, Ireland
15/7 – The Beat-Herder Festival – Sawley
18/7 – ROCK IN ROMA – Roma, Italy
19/7 – ACIELOAPERTO 2016 – Cesena, Italy
20/7 – MOJOTIC FESTIVAL – Sestri Levante (Genova), Italy
12/8 – Lakefest – Ledbury
27/8 – Electric Fields Festival – Thornhill
27/8 – Drumlanrig Castle – Dumfries
10/9 – Dartmouth Field – London
11/9 – Dartmouth Field – London
