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His writing is frequently evocative – before redevelopment, Springburn is full of “dead spaces with strange energy – spirits of the past were trapped there” – and, occasionally, something peeks out from behind the public image. The headline to this article was amended on 10 October 2021 to indicate that it was an abridgement of a quote from Bobby Gillespie. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers' apprentice, Bobby's rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott's mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. But I didn’t know about his time playing bass with Clare Grogan’s Altered Images or his involvement with the Wake on Factory records.
Since then they’ve done plenty of great albums – and the occasional mis-step – without quite reaching the same heights. Filled with ‘the holy spirit of rock n roll’ his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then Primal Scream. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net.
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.
He is best known as the lead singer, founding member, and primary lyricist of the alternative rock band Primal Scream.
His happy times on the Boys Brigade football team taught him the value of teamwork and organisation, while Jock Stein’s strategy in the 1967 European Cup influenced Primal Scream’s approach to playing live, where every gig should be “a commando raid on the soul”. Published thirty years after the release of their masterpiece, Bobby Gillespie's memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house. Despite this, an interesting read for those interested in Scottish culture and British music- everything from working class life in 70’s Glasgow, to the Stones, Beatles, Pistols, Roses, Mondays, the Chain, McGee and Noel Gallagher.
In this book, Gillespie takes us through the release of Screamadelica and the tour that followed as Primal Scream become the most innovative British band of the new decade. Bobby Gillespie’s minimal drums and Douglas Hart’s bass provided the bedrock for the Reid bros’ to do their crazy thing. and some of the finer details to do with bands and music are inaccurate too, which feels a tad lazy.Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID begins in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath’s brutal slum clearances.
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