The Return of Primal Scream to NYC in March

It's been almost six years since Bobby, Mani and the rest of Primal Scream have played in New York. So it's about damn time they get their asses back in town. They've set a date of March 28th at Webster Hall to play music from their latest album, Beautiful Future and hopefully their previous album, Riot City Blues. If you love British music and you've never seen Primal Scream, your attendance will be required. Tickets go on sale on Ticketmaster today at noon.

I did see them at one of their three shows they played at Irving Plaza in 2003. It was a highly memorable show. First off, they had one of the dumbest opening acts I've ever seen, Panthers. I'm not even sure if they are still around, but they were just incompetent and incoherent. The best part being that lthe ead singer would twirl his mic cord hoping to catch it at the right time. He messed up every time. At one point, the mic became unplugged and he didn't notice it for half a song.

Then between sets, a guy wearing a Kill All Hippies t-shirt got into a shoving match with some authentic British, cut from the cloth, old slappers. They reminded me of the Ab Fab chicks. I have no idea why, but he being more into the rock aspect of Primal Scream didn't mix with the ladies who more into the later raver side of the band. Security went into action and plenty of make-up was smeared. The Kill All Hippies guy didn't get to see the show.

Primal Scream themselves were on fire. They ended with Come Together and it was epic. It felt like they played it for 10 minutes. This was the Evil Heat tour so they started out with a bunch of  raver tracks like "Miss Lucifer" and "Swastika Eyes".

As you can see, they don't come around often, so take advantage of it.

Previously: One of my favorite interviews was with Mani back in 2006.

Comments

[John V.]

You do realize that "Come Together" is like 10 minutes on the album, yes? So basically they closed with a good song played at its proper length.

Where do you see Primal Scream playing Webster Hall on March 28th. I see it nowhere. Explain yourself!?!?!

[EM]

this webster hall show never went on sale last week...any explanations??