Primal Scream

Scottish rock band

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2025 Primal Scream signed an open letter supporting hip-hop trio Kneecap, opposing what they viewed as an attempt to censor and deplatform the group.
2024 Primal Scream released their album 'Love Insurrection', marking a new entry in their discography
November 8 2024 Released their most recent album 'Come Ahead', continuing their tradition of musical experimentation.
July 2024 The band released the single 'Love Insurrection' and simultaneously announced their twelfth studio album 'Come Ahead', scheduled for release on 8 November 2024.
May 23 2023 Primal Scream announced they would perform as a 12-piece band, adding members of the House Gospel Choir, Alex White from Fat White Family, and Terry Miles on keyboards.
December 2022 Martin Duffy, long-time band member, died at the age of 55. His son Louie later revealed that despite playing with the band for over 30 years, Duffy was only paid as a session musician.
April 2022 The band sold fifty percent of their back catalogue rights to BMG, with the deal involving band members Gillespie, Innes, and the estate of Robert Young.
October 1 2021 Primal Scream released 'The Screamadelica 12" Singles' compilation album through Sony."
2020 Denise Johnson, former backing and co-lead vocalist, passes away.
May 24 2019 Primal Scream released their third compilation album 'Maximum Rock'n'Roll: The Singles', containing seventeen tracks spanning from 1986 to 2016.
August 2018 The band announces plans to release the original long-lost recordings made for Give Out But Don't Give Up, which were originally recorded in Memphis's Ardent Studios in 1993 with producer Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
March 18 2016 Primal Scream releases their eleventh album Chaosmosis.
2015 The band's song 'It's Alright, It's OK' appears on the soundtrack for Freaks of Nature, playing over the final scene and end credits.
September 2014 Former guitarist Robert 'Throb' Young dies.
May 2013 Primal Scream releases their tenth album More Light on their own label, First International, via Ignition Records.
January 11 2013 David Holmes confirms the upcoming release of the band's tenth album More Light on his Facebook page.
2012 Simone Butler joins Primal Scream as bass guitarist, keyboardist, and percussionist.

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