[MellySingsDoom]

MC5 And Primal Scream Added To Meltdown

added 08 May 2008 at 09.33

 

The surviving members of veteran agit-rockers The MC5 (shouldn't that be The MC3?) and their spiritual grandchildren Primal Scream have been added to this year's Massive Attack-curated Meltdown bill.

The appearance of Primal Scream and The MC5 - both bands are steeped in a tradition of political protest - fits in with the Meltdown ethos as set out by Massive Attack.
In an earlier statement, the curators said: "We want this year's festival to have a strong political and visual element to it to reflect our influences and obsessions. Our aim is to mix it up a bit by instigating collaborations that make sense and probably some that don't."
Also confirmed to perform at the nine-day festival are Elbow, Gang Of Four, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Stiff Little Fingers, Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, Tery Callier, George Clinton and Mark Stewart & The Maffia.
The Massive Attack Meltdown Festival takes place at London's South Bank from June 14 - 22.
Primal Scream's ninth album is called 'Beautiful Future' and is set for release on July 21.

Oh, Jesus cunting Christ, no! A pointless reunion act meets up with the most embarrassing arsewipes in Europe. Please, someone shoot Bobby Gillespie now.

[batreleaser]

wow, that sioubds kinda awesome. for some reason that billing makes a lot of sense, both are bands that make you wanna get out of your head and jump around and have a good time. o yea, and they both rule.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

MC5 And Primal Scream Added To Meltdown



Oh, Jesus cunting Christ, no! A pointless reunion act meets up with the most embarrassing arsewipes in Europe. Please, someone shoot Bobby Gillespie now.

i opened this thread with that in my mind (although not the brit-centric words); thanks for expressing them for me, and with such britness no less.

[demonrail666]

Gillespie is a total skid-mark. Seriously, the sooner he disappears up his own record collection the better for everyone. He still thinks the world is impressed because he owns a couple of Gram Parsons albums and an original vinyl copy of Maggot Brain. He refers to bands such as the MC5 as 'beautiful' because he still thinks its 1969. Honestly, hero-worship is fine if kept to the privacy of your own home, otherwise it just becomes a bit creepy.

[Derek]

Primal Scream rule, my aunt was friends with Bobby Gillespie and put on gigs with him, he's apparently a really nice person!

[Everyneurotic]

i love vanishing point, xtrmntr and tons of their songs, but i can't think of more moronic jackasses in music right now than gillespie.

he is a league of his own in a sea of cunts.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Derek

Primal Scream rule, my aunt was friends with Bobby Gillespie and put on gigs with him, he's apparently a really nice person!

I've met him a few times myself around the time they made Screamadelica and the weird thing is that, at that time he was a nice enough person, it's just that his since then attitude to music really has grated on me.

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

he is a league of his own in a sea of cunts.

You're telling me mate, no. 1 of 1 in a Premier League of total cunts. Anyone who equates taking drugs+George Clinton as being "true soul" deserves to have a car door slammed on their cock.

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Gillespie is a total skid-mark. Seriously, the sooner he disappears up his own record collection the better for everyone. He still thinks the world is impressed because he owns a couple of Gram Parsons albums and an original vinyl copy of Maggot Brain. He refers to bands such as the MC5 as 'beautiful' because he still thinks its 1969. Honestly, hero-worship is fine if kept to the privacy of your own home, otherwise it just becomes a bit creepy.

You must pour many shots of Zubrowka vidka around before serving a Mojito to demonrail666 again.

EDIT: I can't spell "vodka" properly - what a cnutwit.

[screamingskull]

KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

has anyone done that yet?

[MellySingsDoom]

^^^Nope, you be the first Ms Skull.

[This Is Not Here]

Wow!!

 

I did a bit of research, Scream and MC5 are doing one gig outside meltdown at the Southbank centre. I'm so there, I'm so fucking there...

[Cantankerous]

YESSSSSSSSS

oh sssshhitittttt

i wish i was married to bobby gillespie.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

YESSSSSSSSS

oh sssshhitittttt

i wish i was married to bobby gillespie.

Send him an email saying you think he's God and I'm sure he'll sort something out.

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Send him an email saying you think he's God and I'm sure he'll sort something out.

will do.

[This Is Not Here]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

will do.

Cantankerous, if your in London for MBV then Scream and MC5 are at the Southbank centre on the 24th of June, go and shout a marriage proposal at Mr. G.

[demonrail666]

I should say that, so far as I'm aware he's in a steady relationship at the moment - maybe even married - and has a kid. Not saying that you won't be able to prise him from his current domestic bliss, but it might take more than a few adoring heckles at the South Bank. Tell him you're the illegitimate love child of Mahalia Jackson and John Coltrane, or something like that. He'll be slipping a ring on your finger before you can say Che Guevara was a Krautrocker. So long as I can throw grenades instead of confetti at the wedding, it's all good.

[Cantankerous]

i know how to get at him, don't you laddies worry.
kate england watch your pretty little back.

[copper]

i dont care.

[demonrail666]

 

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