Screamadelica Live – a series of Primal Scream live dates that sees the Scottish band playing the seminal album in full – is coming to Manchester as part of Sounds of the City at Castlefield Bowl this Saturday.
Formed in Glasgow in 1982 by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie, the band began as a response to the fading punk and burgeoning new wave movements, and drew from the initially to the fuzzed out sound of The Jesus and Mary Chain. But after two albums of guitar based indie music, Primal Scream were introduced to Acid House by Creation Records founder Alan Mcgee, before DJ Andrew Weatherall’s remix of "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have” convinced the band to draft him in as producer.
The result was an album that draws as much from psychedelic guitar music as it does electronic dance beats and rave culture, and a soundtrack to the more hedonistic sensibilities of the 1990s. Thirty years on and Screamadelica is as thrilling as ever, and beyond these gigs the band is also reissuing the album with three special box sets as well as a Fender guitar baring the cover art.
