“The music industry has been “destroyed” by streaming services”

Gone has the physical CD, soaked up by technology like Apple, Deezer, Rdio, but older music fans still demand that physical quality of holding and playing a CD. Just like vinyl, fans will someday expect a surge in digging out and dusting off their discs.

Gillespie continues to voice his concern:

“A guy here at the record company got me a Spotify account for free because I did a playlist for them.

“When the Savages album came out and I didn’t have a chance to get to the record store, I listened to the first half on there and then a couple of weeks later, I went and bought the album.

“But the digital thing has destroyed music.”

Gillespie says his teenage son “streams [music] but he also watches YouTube”.

“He loves music but he wouldn’t buy it. It’s just the culture they were born into.

“You can’t turn it back but as an artist, I have to try and express myself and the best way to do that is to make albums.”

Formed back in 1982 in Scotland, Primal Scream has built up an extensive discography winning a Mercury Award and two NMEs. I was their third album Screamadelica which gave the band their breakthrough in 1991 and built them up in popularity for the remainder of the 90s and onwards.

With a widespread tour across the USA and UK last year, Primal Scream continue performing into Spring:

29/3 -Beach Ballroom – Aberdeen

30/3 – O2 ABC Glasgow – Glasgow

3/4 – Palladium – London

2/4- Albert Hall – Manchester

28/5- Common People – Southampton

29/5 – Common People – Oxford

23/6 – Bundoran Beach – Bundoran, Ireland

24/6 – Bundoran – Beach -Bundoran, Ireland

15/7 – The Beat-Herder Festival – Sawley

18/7 – ROCK IN ROMA – Roma, Italy

19/7 – ACIELOAPERTO 2016 – Cesena, Italy

20/7 – MOJOTIC FESTIVAL – Sestri Levante (Genova), Italy

12/8 – Lakefest – Ledbury

27/8 – Electric Fields Festival – Thornhill

27/8 – Drumlanrig Castle – Dumfries

10/9 – Dartmouth Field – London

11/9 – Dartmouth Field – London