Primal Scream musician’s son says band’s ‘tough love’ isolated father before death
Keyboard player Martin Duffy was ‘not able to cope’ after being excluded from tour and rights deal, inquest told
December 2022
Primal Scream and Felt’s Martin Duffy: the gifted sideman who was endlessly adaptable
Alexis Petridis
Martin Duffy: Primal Scream and Felt keyboardist dies in fall at home aged 55
August 2022
Reel lives: how I tracked down the class of NME’s C86 album
In 1986 the NME’s 22-track cassette defined indie-rock for a new generation. Some bands featured, such as Primal Scream, became stars. But what became of Bogshed, the Mackenzies and the Shrubs?
October 2021
Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie – piquantly preposterous
Bobby Gillespie: ‘For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement … that stuff stays with you’
June 2021
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth: Utopian Ashes review – a welcome surprise
Lorde’s comeback single is a lesson in letting pop stars take their time
Laura Snapes
May 2021
The Q&A
Bobby Gillespie: ‘I am a lead singer, I love myself’
The musician on his Raquel Welch wallpaper, crying when Maradona died and breaking his back in four places
March 2021
'It's all psychedelic!' The film about Alan McGee's rocking, rolling life
He launched Oasis and Primal Scream, then practiced occult magic in Wales. Nick Moran and Ewen Bremner explain how they recreated McGee’s life for biopic Creation Stories
Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic
Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis
Tenement Kid: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie to publish memoir
Book charts the singer’s journey from his childhood in Glasgow to his band’s breakthrough 1991 album Screamadelica and their notorious live shows
December 2020
The Observer's obituaries of 2020
Andrew Weatherall remembered by David Holmes
The composer pays tribute to a brilliant polymath with singular musical vision, who was also a warm and wise friend
July 2020
'She gold-plated songs': Denise Johnson, the voice of Manchester's dancefloors
Denise Johnson, singer with Primal Scream, dies aged 56
From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag
Club culture
Twisting my melon, man! The baggy, brilliant indie-rave summer of 1990
March 2020
Glastonbury defies coronavirus threat to announce lineup with Kendrick Lamar
Over 90 more names including Pet Shop Boys, Dua Lipa and Noel Gallagher have been announced for 50th-anniversary edition of the festival
February 2020
Bobby Gillespie remembers Andrew Weatherall: ‘He was a true bohemian’
