Bobby Gillespie
Gillespie on the cover of NME
Background information
Birth name	Robert Gillespie
Born	22 June 1962
Origin	Glasgow, Scotland
Genre(s)	rock
Occupation(s)	Singer, Songwriter, Drummer
Years active	1984 - present

Bobby Gillespie (born Robert Gillespie, 22 June 1962, Glasgow[1]) is a Scottish musician. He is the lead singer and founding member of the alternative rock band, Primal Scream. From the south side of Glasgow he attended Kings Park secondary school. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (728x889, 210 KB) Scanned cover of NME. http://www. ... Distinguish from the Canadian music magazine Music Express The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Scotland. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation) George Square and Glasgows City Chambers Glasgow is Scotlands largest city, located on the River Clyde in West Central Scotland. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... A drummer in Action A drummer is a person who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Glaswegian redirects here. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic)1 Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II... A musician is a person who plays or composes music Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music: A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Primal Scream are a rock group formed as a duo in 1982 in Glasgow, Scotland, by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie, evolving into a band in 1984 at which time Gillespie was also the drummer in The Jesus and Mary Chain. ... Glaswegian redirects here. ...

Jesus and Mary Chain days

Gillespie first found fame playing drums for the influential Glasgow band The Jesus and Mary Chain. Prior to The Jesus and the Mary Chain, he worked as a roadie for Altered Images and played bass in The Wake. Gillespie was a friend of Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart, who asked Gillespie to join the band after their original drummer had left following the release of their debut single in 1984. Gillespie's style of drumming was minimal to say the least, with his drum kit consisting only of a snare and a floor tom, which he played standing up; an idea he borrowed from the Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker. This fitted the Mary Chain's style which was drowned in layers of feedback. In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ... The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band that revolved around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid. ... Altered Images were a popular band who formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1980. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is an electrically-amplified string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... A bassist is a musician who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ... Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born 1945, in New Jersey, United States) is best know for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. ...

Gillespie played on the Mary Chain's classic debut LP Psychocandy, which was released in 1985 to wide critical acclaim. By this time Gillespie had already released a single, ableit to little attention, with his own band, Primal Scream. Throughout his days as a drummer Gillespie had continued to work at Primal Scream, the band he started along with guitarist Jim Beattie in 1982. By early 1986, Gillespie had played his last show with the Mary Chain and left to devote his attentions to Primal Scream. Psychocandy is the debut album of the Scottish indie band The Jesus and Mary Chain. ... Primal Scream are a rock group formed as a duo in 1982 in Glasgow, Scotland, by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie, evolving into a band in 1984 at which time Gillespie was also the drummer in The Jesus and Mary Chain. ... James Louis Beattie (born July 4, 1954 in Hampton, Virginia), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1978-1986. ...

Primal Scream

The band signed to Creation Records in 1985, and over the next year, they released a pair of singles. However, Primal Scream didn't really take off until the middle of 1986, when Gillespie left the Mary Chain and guitarists Andrew Innes and Robert Young joined the band. "Velocity Girl," a rush of jangly guitars, was a B-side that wound up on NME's C86 cassette compilation, a collection of underground pop groups that defined the U.K.'s mid-'80s indie pop scene. After the band rejected the initial version of debut album, Sonic Flower Groove, recorded with Stephen Street, they re-recorded the album with Mayo Thompson, and the record was finally released in 1987 on the Creation subsidiary Elevation. The album was well received in the British indie community, as was its 1989 follow-up, Primal Scream, which demonstrated hard rock influences from the Rolling Stones and New York Dolls to the Stooges and MC5. C86 is the name of a celebrated cassette compilation released by the British music magazine New Musical Express (NME) in 1986, featuring new bands licenced from independent labels of the time. ... Sonic Flower Groove was British band Primal Screams first album. ... This article is about the rock band. ... The New York Dolls are a rock band formed in New York City in 1972. ... The Stooges are an American rocknroll band that was first active from around 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ... MC5 (short for Motor City Five) was a hard rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1964 and active until 1972. ...

As the '80s drew to a close, Britain's underground music scene became dominated by the burgeoning acid house scene. Primal Scream became fascinated with the new dance music, and they asked a friend, a DJ named Andrew Weatherall, to remix a track from Primal Scream, "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have." Weatherall completely reworked the song, adding a heavy bass groove echoing dub reggae, deleting most of the original instrumentation (even the layers of guitars), and interjecting layers of samples, including lines of Peter Fonda's dialogue from The Wild Angels. The new mix was retitled "Loaded," and it became a sensation, bringing rock & roll to the dancefloor and dance to rock & rollers. "Come Together," the first single from their forthcoming third album, was in much the same vein, and was similarly praised. Andrew Weatherall (b. ... Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... The Wild Angels (1966) is a Roger Corman film, made on location in Southern California. ...

For their third album, Screamadelica, Primal Scream not only worked with Andrew Weatherall and Hugo Nicholson, the pair who essentially designed the sound of the album, but also the Orb and former Stones producer Jimmy Miller. The resulting album was a kaleidoscopic, neo-psychedelic fusion of dance, dub, techno, acid house, pop, and rock, and it was greeted with rapturous reviews in the U.K. Released in the spring of 1991, Screamadelica also marked an important moment in British pop in the '90s, helping to bring techno and house into the mainstream. The album was a massive success, winning the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992. Screamadelica is a 1991 album by Primal Scream and was their first to be a commercial success. ...

In the wake of the groundbreaking Screamadelica, most observers wondered what Primal Scream would do next, yet few would have predicted their retreat to '70s hard rock for Give Out But Don't Give Up. Released in 1994, the album was eagerly awaited, but its Stonesy hard rock was not well received, and it was a relative commercial failure. More importantly, it hurt the group's reputation as innovators, a situation they reacted to with the title track to the hit 1996 film Trainspotting. Primal Scream's contribution to the soundtrack was a return to the dance stylings of Screamadelica, only darker. The band continued to work on their next album, entitled Vanishing Point, over the course of 1996, finally releasing it to enthusiastic reviews in the summer of 1997. The ultra-aggressive XTRMNTR followed in the spring of 2000. Two years later Primal Scream released Evil Heat, a guest-laden (even supermodel Kate Moss makes an appearance) album in line and on par with XTRMNTR, and in 2006 Riot City Blues came out. Give Out But Dont Give Up is a 1994 album by Primal Scream. ... Trainspotting is a 1996 Academy Award nominated, BAFTA winning cult film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. ... Vanishing Point is a 1997 (see 1997 in music) album by Primal Scream. ... XTRMNTR is a 2000 album by Primal Scream. ... Evil Heat is a 2002 album by Primal Scream. ... Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel who is known for her waifish figure, high-profile relationships, party lifestyle, alleged cocaine use and advertising campaigns. ... Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Primal Scream, set to be released on June 5, 2006. ...

Controversy

Primal Scream were drafted at the last minute to play The Glastonbury Festival in 2005, as one of the replacements for Kylie Minogue. During the set Gillespie was abusive, making various gestures including a Nazi salute and referred to the crowd as "a bunch of fucking hippies". He also declared that if the crowd wanted to see The Stone Roses reunite that they were "Ten years too fucking late". The band were eventually removed from stage by security for over running their allotted time. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury Festival or Glasto, is the largest [1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... The classic line-up at the time of Spike Island The Stone Roses were one of the most influential bands to come out of Britain during the late 1980s and early 90s. ...

It was also reported that Gillespie made comments about one of the Festivals headliners. He accused Coldplay of being boring and that they are the reason why Radiohead are so miserable. Coldplay is an English rock band from London. ... Radiohead are an English rock band from Oxfordshire, initially formed in 1986 under the name On a Friday. ...

Gillespie was also criticised for defacing a 'Make Poverty History' poster signed by all the acts at the festival. Gillespie scribbled over this and wrote 'Make Israel History.'^{[citation needed]}

After the band left the stage, Gillespie was asked why he had acted in this manner. Gillespie stated that "Some fucking hippie robbed all my ale."

Gillespie and Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis have since met and Eavis reportedly brushed off the incident as amusing.

Gillespie has recently been involved in a campaign to prevent a local pub gaining extended hours. This has caused controversy due to what many consider his hypocritical attitude. Read about it <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/music-too-loud-thats-a-scream/2007/01/18/1168709872809.html">here</a> Perhaps whoever keeps cutting this sentence out would be kind enough to help me fix the (apparently fine in other locations) code rather than deleting the sentence.

Trivia

• Gillespie married stylist Katy England at St. Margaret's Church, Betley on 29 July 2006.
• Gillespie is a big fan of Echobelly and has been known to play their hit King of the Kerb on Primal Scream's tour bus.
• Gillespie joined Nick Cave's band, Grinderman, as a backing singer at the band's first stage performance at the ATP festival in Minehead, Somerset, in April 2007.