Ahead of the release of their forthcoming new album Come Ahead, Primal Scream have announced a headline tour for March and April 2025, with 14 huge shows across the UK and Ireland.
The Come Ahead Tour marks Primal Scream’s anticipated live return after 2022’s Screamadelica Live and 2023 headline summer shows were rapturously received. The band’s headline performance at Crystal Palace’s South Facing Festival was described as “a powerful, emotionally charged performance” by The Telegraph in a five star review.
The 2025 Come Ahead Tour will begin at Bristol’s Beacon on 31st March and Southampton’s O2 Guildhall on 1st April, before Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on 3rd April and two homecoming performances at Glasgow’s O2 Academy on 4th and 5th April.
The tour continues at Birmingham’s O2 Academy on 7th April, Liverpool’s Mountford Hall on 8th April and London’s Eventim Apollo on 10th April. The band will then perform at Manchester’s Academy 1 at Aviva Studios on 11th April, Nottingham’s Rock City on 12th April, Belfast’s Ulster Hall on 14th April and Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on 15th, before final shows at O2 Academy Leeds on 18th and Newcastle City Hall on 19th April.
Primal Scream will be supported by Baxter Dury at shows in Bristol, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham, and by Fat White Family in London. More guests are soon to be announced.
Today Primal Scream have released a new remix in preview to Come Ahead, the band’s forthcoming 12th studio album. Cosmic first single ‘Love Insurrection’ has been reimagined by UK deep house pioneers Black Science Orchestra, now pulsing with deep bass amongst the track’s funk-driven guitars, soaring flutes and strings while Bobby Gillespie’s impassioned vocals deliver a powerful message of unity and hope. The remix has been adoringly received by fans at clubs over the last few months.
Listen to the ‘Love Insurrection’ (Black Science Orchestra Dub) Remix, alongside the recently released ‘Ready To Go Home’ remix by UK house legend Terry Farley and Wade Teo, here.
The songs from Come Ahead that have been released have been rapturously received by fans and media alike. Huge current single ‘Ready To Go Home’ was tipped as “fervent” by The Times and “a beautifully pointed piece of songwriting” by CLASH. ‘Love Insurrection’ was described as “cosmic” by NME and “a foot stomping slice of jazz-tinged balladry” by The Telegraph. Elsewhere the album is already receiving acclaim, with MOJO declaring “Come Ahead is up there with Primal Scream’s best” and Classic Pop adding, “Primal Scream just became important again”.
Come Ahead finds Primal Scream’s principal songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of his band’s career. 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.
For the first time in a long time, the lyrics came before the music. The story came first. Bobby wrote alone, using an acoustic guitar. Ideas flowed fast, in long bursts of inspiration. This process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new way in. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.
The time that’s elapsed since Primal Scream’s previous album has seen Bobby Gillespie at his most prolific. Shapeshifting between some of the most celebrated projects of his career whilst steadily stockpiling the songs that would become Come Ahead. 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. This myriad of new creative projects provided the vital space for Come Ahead to take shape
Come Ahead is released physically on double vinyl and CD with a limited mirrorboard gatefold double silver vinyl available at HMV and indie stores, plus a limited mirrorboard gatefold double red vinyl and an exclusive t-shirt available on the official album store here.
11 April Manchester, Aviva Studios
Tickets are on sale from 1st November here. Fans who pre-order Come Ahead from the official artist store here will receive access to an exclusive fan presale for the tour. The presale will run from 10am on Wednesday 30th October until the general sale which starts at 10am on Friday 1st November.
