Bobby Gillespie Tenement Kid
- THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Tickets
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£13.20 (£12 ticket charge plus 10% Booking Fee)
- Dates and times
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7th May 2022
9:30PM - 10:30PM
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
This show is being rescheduled. More details will announced in due course.
Please note: all original tickets will remain valid. Box Office will be in touch in due course if you have purchased tickets.
An extraordinary memoir from the iconic Primal Scream frontman and
great survivor of the 90s.
Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, Bobby Gillespie’s memoir Tenement Kid begins in Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath's brutal slum clearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers' apprentice, Bobby's rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott's mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with 'the holy spirit of rock n roll' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead him to join The Jesus and Mary Chain then Primal Scream.
Building like a breakbeat crescendo to the
Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew
Weatherall in an East Sussex field, as the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new
kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nation's
consciousness, his book closes with the release of Screamadelica,
the album often credited with 'starting the '90s'. A book filled with the joy
and wonder of a rock n roll apostle who would radically reshape the future
sounds of fin de siècle British pop, Bobby Gillespie's memoir cuts a righteous
path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house.
Photo credit and copyright: Sam Christmas
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