Band I must see before they die

Primal Scream. dunno how I've not gone to see them over the years, they've never been my favourite band. I only own Screamadelica but I'm listening to Xtrmntr now and it's a good album.

The Guardian had a small piece of them in the wake of their recent greatest hits and their support slot with The Rolling Stones. I hadn't realised that they continued ingesting massive amounts of drugs right thru the 90s and 00s. Good story of how Andrew Innes got ejected from Graceland for being too fucked up and earned further ire by throwing up on the doorstep as he was being dragged away and shouting 'First man to do that since the King'.

I went to see Simple Kid last night - it was not bad stuff. Singer songwriter Conor Feely from Cork accompanied by his big brother Al and drum machine on his country tinged songs. He used be in some band which was briefly famous in Camden in 1999 and that experience informs a lot of his songwriting. He did a cover of WIll Oldham's I See A Darkness so I was hardly not going to like it now was I?

What else - got the new Plastikman album Closer which is all right on first few listens, might not be the slow melodic masterpiece that Consumed was. Picked up Talk Talk's greatest hits for a tenner which is lovely. Them synths are where it's at (or where it was at). And went to see Intolerable Cruelty which is great. Proper on screen chemistry between two leads at last. Posted by eamonn at November 19, 2003 10:00 AM