Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce one of the most influential and exciting live bands in modern music – Scottish pioneers Primal Scream – will return to Australia in January 2025 for their first shows down under since 2018.
Responsible for one of music’s most ground-breaking albums in 1991’s Mercury prize-winning Screamadelica, the legends behind a string of hits such as ‘Movin’ on Up’, ‘Rocks’, ‘Country Girl’, ‘Loaded’, ‘Kill All Hippies’, ‘Come Together’, ‘Swastika Eyes’ and many more will return this summer for headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth*.
With their influence citied by Fontaines D.C. to Dua Lipa in 2024, Primal Scream return in celebration of Come Ahead – their new studio album, due for release via BMG on 8th November. Pre-order here. Led by singles ‘Love Insurrection’ – described by MOJO as “a call for peace, love and understanding from within a funky disco fug” – and the brooding ‘Deep Dark Waters’, Come Ahead is the band’s 12th full-length record and their first new music since 2016’s Chaosmosis. 11 new songs that find the group’s principal songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of his band’s career.
Says Gillespie: “I’m very excited about this album in a way that you would be making your first record. If there was an overall theme to Come Ahead it might be one of conflict, whether inner or outer. There is also a thread of compassion running through the album. The title is a Glaswegian term. If someone threatens to fight you, you say, ‘come ahead!’ It’s redolent of the indomitable spirit of the Glaswegian, and the album itself shares that aggressive attitude and confidence. They have a word for this up there, gallus. Come Ahead’s quite a cheeky title too.”
In October Primal Scream will perform their first live shows of 2024 in UK arenas as special guest to Alice Cooper, plus a major festival performance at Mexico City’s Corona Capital in November. Charged with their trademark cosmic energy, tickets for the shapeshifting band’s Australian dates will go on sale Friday 20 September (10am local time) via frontiertouring.com/primalscream. Frontier Members presale starts Wednesday 18 September (1pm AEST) – see Frontier website for full info.
The songwriting process for Come Ahead began in 2022. At which point Bobby Gillespie had no idea if he would make another Primal Scream album again. The time that’s elapsed since Primal Scream’s previous album has seen Gillespie at his most prolific. His 2021 memoir Tenement Kid was selected as Rough Trade’s Book of the Year and won the NME Award for Best Music Book. The band’s era-defining Screamadelica album celebrated its 30th anniversary with huge sold out gigs across the UK, including London’s Alexandra Palace. Gillespie teamed with Paul Weller writing lyrics for ‘Soul Wandering’, the first single from his latest album 66, and collaborated with Jehnny Beth in Paris writing and recording an entire album of duets titled Utopian Ashes. Bobby also collaborated with acid house duo Paranoid London, singing on their new song ‘People (Ah Yeah)’, and composed his first movie soundtrack for the 2023 cinematic release Five Hectares with French filmmaker Émilie Deleuze. Bobby also sings on six new songs on the forthcoming Peter Perrett album, The Cleansing.
Urgent and unmissable: don’t miss the legendary Primal Scream, when they return to Australia at last this January!
PRIMAL SCREAM
AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2025
Presented by Frontier Touring
FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE
via frontiertouring.com/primalscream
Runs 24 hours from: Wednesday 18 September (1pm AEST)
or until presale allocation exhausted
TICKETS ON SALE
Begins: Friday 20 September (10am local time)
Friday 10 January
Forum Melbourne | Melbourne, VIC
18+
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Saturday 11 January
Enmore Theatre | Sydney, NSW
Licensed. All Ages
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Monday 13 January
The Fortitude Music Hall | Brisbane, QLD
18+
ticketmaster.com.au
Tuesday 14 January
Hindley Street Music Hall | Adelaide, SA
18+
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*Also playing (not a Frontier Touring show):
Thursday 16 January
Fremantle Prison | Perth, WA
18+
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Patrons are advised to purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers. We cannot guarantee any ticket purchase made through any means other than the official ticketing agents listed on the Frontier website.
