So, it begins, again. Last night I booked the flights for our next French tour, in October.Or, as any right-thinking person will now call it, Rocktober.
Individual gigs are being finalised, but we will definitely be playing in Paris, and hoping to get back to Lille, and also to play for the first time in many years in places like Bordeaux and LeHavre.
Dates to follow once they are confirmed!
Photo of us supporting The Sonics - by Martin Windebank
Delighted to announce that The Primevals will be supporting Washington State's Original Kings of Garage Rock, THE SONICS at The Arches, Glasgow on Friday May 9th.
We covered their song "He's Waitin' " in very early sets, and I didn't really think I would ever get to see them live.
It will be an absolute joy.
Here's Boss Hoss
UPDATE - in the way that memory works, where there is a primordial soup of Jock & Roll memories and I can't be certain if this happened to the Majestics or the Beat Poets, I have checked the archive and confirmed that The Beat Poets covered "The Witch" at our first gig, June 86.
Here's The Witch (The Sonics version - ours escaped without being recorded)
We rehearsed tonight for our set at Love Music, Glasgow on Saturday 19th April for Record Store Day.
We will be doing 20 minutes, including Girl It's Me - our single for Record Store Day, part of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute series, and also Many Mansions, because it is a blast to play!
Many Mansions takes me back to 2011, the first tour of this lineup to France, listening to Ask The Ages in the van as France sped past us, all of us grooving to Sonny Sharrock with Elvin Jones & Pharaoh Sanders.
If you are in the area, we are onstage (in-store) at 5:30pm on Saturday.
Of course this also reminds me of playing in Nimes at the end of that tour, a showcase set in FNAC which was a joy, too.
Record Stores are (generally) forces for good - we will be doing our bit over the weekend to keep them going
Last month, we were part of an event at the Barrowlands - a Celebration for the Clutha. This was to raise funds for the people affected by the helicopter disaster. Headliners were the Alabama 3 and Big Country, and the bill also included our old compadres James King & The Lonewolves.
The event was organised by Dutch Rukowski - an indefatigable man!
As Michael said on the night "I've stood down there a million times, always wanted to say this ... HELLO GLASGOW!".
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project The Double A-Side Split 7” Release Date: 04/19/2014 · Format: 7” · Catalog-No: SI GR 804
This is the perfect appetizer for the upcoming new album by The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project „Axels & Sockets“ (GR 796), which will be released on May 2nd.
Both tracks will NOT be on the full length album, so we have two exclusives fort he Vinyl afficionados! „Zonar Rose“ is a rowdy, wild rocker that features bay area legends Keith Morris (founding member and first singer for Black Flag) and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), who both nowadays serve as frontman and bassplayer for the mighty OFF! plus fellow Californians Ty Segall (The Epsilons) and John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees). „Girl It’s Me“ sees one of Glasgow’s finest bands, The Primevals at their best. A catchy, raw and driving song, perfect for any garage/punkrock jukebox with some of the finest slide guitar lead parts.
This single is exclusively available for Record Store Day 2014 and limited to 666 copies worldwide!
We played our regular festive gig in Glasgow on Friday night, with support from our friends The Brutes and Los Tentakils. Rocking fun, as always, and a gathering of the clans.
After 30 years in the Primevals, John Honeyman has decided it is time to jet off to another planet. He is a dear friend, and a great musician. He has also been a stalwart of The Beat Poets over the last 20 years, first stepping in to help when our then-bassist was taken ill on the day of a gig.
John is great at coming up with questions that lead to hours of conversation- like "Who do you think was a better band - Alice Cooper or The Stooges?". 30 years, never a cross word, just hilarity.
Here's a video from the crowd of the last song, with Shug from The Reverse Cowgirls, and Grant and Celina from Los Tentakills
Louie Louie (click on the link for facebook-hosted video)
We have had a few rehearsals recently, working on some new tunes - You Sucked The Life Out Of Me, One More Hit, Re-Frame It - and some old ones - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean.
There are a couple of gigs coming up - Friday November 1st, Stockton-On-Tees
I've also been sorting through the last couple of years of recordings - there is enough for a solo CD of instrumental stuff which I will sell through here. "Guitars, Guitars, Guitars" !
