Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove

Here's one you don't see on t'internet every day, Primal Screams first album. About as far away from The JMYC's sound as you can get, this jangly whimsy is very much a product of it's time (1987). You've got a lot of Paisly Underground, a bit of shoe-gazing, a soupson of indie and the merest pinch of JMYC.

So critically panned at the time that the original group split up, with the benefit of 21 years of hindsight, it's an inoffensive enough thing, but obviously interesting more for Gillespie & Co went on to do.

Anectdotal note:

The Primal's are a group who, when I see them, something happens . . .

Like being charged £3 a can in 1991 . . . 

A long story involving beer being spilt over my new leather jacket and a bloke being glassed . . . but it was a plastic glass (doh!)

After two unavoidable cancellations (Diana's death and a transport strike) this one finally took place in a half-empty marquee on a cold, wet September's night.

 Some council estate kids chucking bottles at me when, apres-gig and being a little the worse for wear, going on somewhere else.