It´s not a band for masses nor a sale records but Primal Scream have the formula to keep a legion of faithful fans. They have been playing since 1984 when they started in Glasgow with The Jesus And Mary Chain drummer, Bobby Gillespie, this time as the singer and guitarist and with Jim Beattie who later left the band to continue his own way with Spirea X.

They appeared as a psychedelic rock band with the aim of creating instinctive and basic music for human nature and they now make alternative rock and acid house. They were one of those bands which made the 90´s a special decade and they innovated the British pop scene with a new formula to make music, a key band between rock and dance music.

That´s how Gillespie defines it: ?Rhythm is getting over melody. It´s necessary to destroy the very idea of the song, to exploit the structures, to escape from the dictatorship of melody. The day I took the step was a great liberation moment. Melodies speak to heart and body rhythms. And I want to make people dance.?

They have lived success and decadence and after getting the recognition from the specialized press and audience, in 1992 failure arrived. Success, drugs, money?, it was impossible for them to get together to record and they finally decided to do a rock album. Produced by Tom Dod and George Drakoulias (The Black Crowes) they launched "Give Out But Don't Give Up" in 1994, a great failure for the audience and sales.

After the fiasco and a reflection time, Bobby re-emerged from his ashes and together his faithful guitarist Andrew Innes, they started composing the sound track of Trainspotting. Since then, the band continues creating albums, among them the great and dark ?XTRMNTR? in 2000, with the new member Kevin Shieldsque.

Their last album has been ?Beatiful Future? released in 2008, two years after their previous ?Riot City Blues? (2006). A new album that looks back gathering all the facets developed in previous works. From the psychedelic rock and electronic music they reinvent their own essence and keep on playing.

Gary Mounfield, ?Mani? - the Stone Roses ex bassist and for eleven years member of Primal Scream, talks about the recording: ?As it happens to us every time we start recording, we didn´t have a predefined plan but we did want to use different producers who could contribute with different points of view for each song, instead of having a sole sound. And the result is something new for us, a collection of very accessible songs that sound great in the radio?.

Accessible but deep songs as their inspiration source comes the manipulated society: ?We tried to make and euphoric album and then Bobby comes and gives it a turn transforming it into something really sinister. It´s like a Troy horse. If you look back to 'XTRMNTR', that album had a completely vicious, angry and unpleasant look about what was happening with wars. In ?Beautiful Future? I think he is back with the celebrity world and how the average citizen nourishes himself with TV realities and gets away from what is really happening in the world?.

Concerning what they have left to do, Mounfield seems sure of himself: ?Only one thing: to receive the recognition from those we really deserve. We are the fucking best British rock band of the last years. We can kick anyone on stage because we are great. The best?.