Primal Scream – review

Academy, Leeds"Are you ready to testify?" asks Bobby Gillespie as Primal Scream pile into Movin' On Up. With the crowd singing the chorus, the gig is only minutes old, but the atmosphere feels like a climax. The band are touring their 1991 masterpiece Screamadelica, the landmark album that captured the mood as Britain emerged from the bleak Thatcherite 80s into the optimism of a new decade, a time when rock bled into acid house, and ecstasy culture gave many a religious-style awakening.At the...

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