For more than 30 years, since the release of their kaleidoscopic, acid-soaked breakthrough classic ‘Screamadelica’, Primal Scream have wanted you to get loaded and have a good time.
But the innately political side of frontman Bobby Gillespie - the son of a trade union activist - has always added a deeper dimension. And now, in 2025, with the world quite literally on fire and as genocidal wars continue to rage on, this duality rang out across West London’s Hammersmith Apollo more than ever. This was dystopian disco for the end times. Or, as Gillespie told the crowd during a still-transcendent Moving On Up: “We’re in the holy church of rock’n’roll, it might even save your soul.”
