Primal Scream: "Screamadelica" live! (GB)

The recording session for Primal Scream’s third album is the subject of legends, but the colorful story behind the dark sides of rock’n’roll would mean nothing if the resulting album hadn’t turned out to be a masterpiece. And that is precisely the right word to describe Screamadelica. It’s not indie rock: it’s total music, music that shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow and incorporates such distant sounds and musical traditions as house and gospel. The critics went mad over Screamadelica (the album also won the first Mercury Music Prize), as did the fans, but the band wasn’t quite ready to play the entire record live. They’re doing it now, after 20 years, and we’re proud to let you witness this historical event at the OFF Festival.