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Primal Scream
The Come Ahead Tour 2025 UK & Ireland Headline Shows
Dylan John Thomas and Mozart Estate join as support alongside Baxter Dury + Fat White Family on selected dates
Tickets available Here
New Album Come Ahead out now BMG
Primal Scream’s First Studio Album Since 2016
As part of their upcoming UK and Ireland headline tour for their acclaimed new album Come Ahead, Primal Scream have added Dylan John Thomas as support for their Leeds and Newcastle shows in March and April 2025. Opening the tour on selected dates is Mozart Estate. Baxter Dury joins Primal Scream in Bristol, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham, with Fat White Family joining as special guests in London. Tickets are available here.
The Come Ahead Tour marks Primal Scream’s anticipated live return after 2022’s Screamadelica Live and 2023 headline summer shows were rapturously received – the band’s headline performance at Crystal Palace’s South Facing Festival was described as “a powerful, emotionally charged performance” by The Telegraph in a five star review.
Primal Scream released Come Ahead, the band’s 12th studio album, to high praise from critics and fans alike. CLASH described Come Ahead “another high in a career full of them” and the album was tipped by NME as “funk meets punk, with grenades in the trunk” in a four star review. Elsewhere the record is receiving acclaim from The Observer, “Bobby Gillespie’s most personal album yet”, with Uncut championing “a purposeful, political return” and the Daily Mirror hearing, “it’s as if the Delfonics had grown up in the Glasgow tenements”.
Come Ahead finds Primal Scream’s principal songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of his band’s career. The songwriting process for Come Ahead began in 2022, at which point Bobby Gillespie had no idea if he would make another Primal Scream album again. For the first time in a long time, the lyrics came before the music. The story came first. Bobby wrote alone, using an acoustic guitar. Ideas flowed fast, in long bursts of inspiration. This process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new way in. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.
The time that’s elapsed since Primal Scream’s previous album has seen Bobby Gillespie at his most prolific. Shapeshifting between some of the most celebrated projects of his career whilst steadily stockpiling the songs that would become Come Ahead. His 2021 memoir Tenement Kid was selected as Rough Trade’s Book of the Year, and won the NME Award for Best Music Book. The band’s era-defining Screamadelica album celebrated its 30th anniversary with huge sold out gigs across the UK, including London’s Alexandra Palace. Gillespie teamed with Paul Weller writing lyrics for ‘Soul Wandering’, the first single from his latest album 66, and collaborated with Jehnny Beth in Paris writing and recording an entire album of duets titled Utopian Ashes. Bobby also collaborated with acid house duo Paranoid London, singing on their new song ‘People (Ah Yeah)’, and composed his first movie soundtrack for the 2023 cinematic release Five Hectares with French filmmaker Émilie Deleuze. Bobby also sings on six new songs on the forthcoming Peter Perrett album, The Cleansing. This myriad of new creative projects provided the vital space for Come Ahead to take shape.
Come Ahead is released physically on double vinyl and CD with a limited mirrorboard gatefold double silver vinyl available at HMV and indie stores, plus a limited mirrorboard gatefold double red vinyl and an exclusive t-shirt available on the official album store here.
UK and Ireland Headline Tour Dates 2025
31 March Bristol, Beacon * %
1 April Southampton, O2 Guildhall * %
3 April Edinburgh, Usher Hall *
4 April Glasgow, O2 Academy *
5 April Glasgow, O2 Academy *
7 April Birmingham, O2 Academy *%
8 April Liverpool, Mountford Hall *%
10 April London, Eventim Apollo +%
11 April Manchester, Aviva Studios *%
12 April Nottingham, Rock City *%
14 April Belfast, Ulster Hall
15 April Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre
18 April Leeds, O2 Academy ~
19 April Newcastle, O2 City Hall ~
* = with support from Baxter Dury
+ = with support from Fat White Family
~ = with support Dylan John Thomas
% = with support Mozart Estate
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
