Primal Scream - Live at The Beacon, Bristol, 31st March 2025

Defined by their ongoing reinvention, last year’s fine twelfth studio album Come Ahead was another step in Primal Screams’ 40-year journey, and this corresponding tour finds a band still brimming with vitality and purpose.

An impressive bill features Mozart Estate – Laurence’s new venture – and Baxter Dury. The latter’s debonair delivery and offbeat storytelling on record is replaced by a slinkier style, full of dramatic poses and barked delivery.

It perhaps lacks some subtlety on the juddering electro of ;I’m Not Your Dog’, less so on ‘Baxter (These Are My Friends)’, his recent collaboration with Fred Again…, presented here as a full on-raver. Regardless, Dury is a beguiling performer.

True believers in glamour, Primal Scream take to the stage looking appropriately divine; Bobby Gillespie wears a magnificent white jacket, the sort only a true rock star can pull off, while Simone Butler occupies her side of the stage with confidence and majesty.

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