Primal Scream announce Australian Tour – January 2025
Responsible for one of music’s most groundbreaking albums in 1991’s Mercury prize-winning Screamadelica, the legends behind a string of hits such as ‘Movin’ on Up’, ‘Rocks’, ‘Country Girl’, ‘Loaded’, ‘Kill All Hippies’, ‘Come Together’, ‘Swastika Eyes’ and many more will return this summer for headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth*.
With their influence citied by Fontaines D.C. to Dua Lipa in 2024, Primal Scream return in celebration of Come Ahead – their new studio album, due for release via BMG on 8th November. Pre-order here. Led by singles ‘Love Insurrection’ – described by MOJO as “a call for peace, love and understanding from within a funky disco fug” – and the brooding ‘Deep Dark Waters’, Come Ahead is the band’s 12th full-length record and their first new music since 2016’s Chaosmosis. 11 new songs that find the group’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. The time that’s elapsed since Primal Scream’s previous album has seen Gillespie at his most prolific. 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.
Urgent and unmissable: don’t miss the legendary Primal Scream, when they return to Australia at last this January!
Primal Scream
AUStralian 2025 tour
Presented by Presented by Frontier Touring
TFriday 10 January
Forum Melbourne | Melbourne, VIC
18+
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Saturday 11 January
Enmore Theatre | Sydney, NSW
Licensed. All Ages
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Monday 13 January
The Fortitude Music Hall | Brisbane, QLD
18+
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Tuesday 14 January
Hindley Street Music Hall | Adelaide, SA
18+
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*Also playing (not a Frontier Touring show):
Thursday 16 January
Fremantle Prison | Perth, WA
18+
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