The Primitives hit the road in June, celebrating the 30th
anniversary of Lovely, the album which featured the ‘Crash’ and transformed
them from cult Coventry indie combo to shiny nationwide pop stars; not that
they were entirely comfortable in their new-found celebrity status as
appearances on Saturday morning telly proved.
Dripping with sniffy contempt at being asked inane
questions by Micheala Strachan at some ungodly hour, a marvellously mardy Tracy
Tracy told millions of kids her favourite food was hamsters, and, on another
occasion, they signed out of a show with an impromptu live version of the
Stooges’ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’. Seems kinda incredible now, in this age of
tedious cookery shows showing you fifteen things to do with asparagus, that
folk could get away with such glorious freewheelin’ on live mainstream telly.
As for Lovely,
it was in no way over shadowed by ‘Crash’ (I tend to miss it out when listening
nowadays), instead it’s packed with beauties. From clatter and fuzz to jingle
and jangle to fizz and buzz to dreamy flower power, it’s all there. It sounded
great 30 years ago, sounds great today and will sound great in 30 years’ time.
If all that wasn’t enough, The Primitives are currently
making some of the best music of their lives. Before you scoff, listen below to
2017’s ‘I’ll Trust The Wind’.
Tickets available for all shows now. Attendees at the 100
Club show will also have the added “bonus” of witnessing yours truly playing
some of my favourite records, in my favourite venue, for one of my favourite bands.
Lovely jubbly.
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