60 JULIAN COPE, Primal Scream, Bristol Bierkeller, Wednesday 29 October 1986

Drove a carload down for this one, getting there in time to catch support Primal Scream play a flat, innocuous set which didn't do justice to their melodic, slightly-delic catchy vinyl work. Maybe next time...

Piled down the front, ending up stood next to a girl who insisted upon biting my arm because I stood too close to her - must've been her first gig - and got a large bruise in the process. Still t'was all worth it, after another splendid showing from Julian Cope, the supreme frontman. Got drenched down the front to Copey's wonderful set of soaring, epic pop, St. Julian delving back to the Teardrop Explodes days for a version of "Sleeping Gas", and encoring with a punk rock "Spacehopper". Brilliant!

89 PRIMAL SCREAM, The Jasmine Minks, The Academy, Uxbridge Brunel University, Saturday 10 October 1987

Drove up to visit a friend at the Uni and catch a gig, heading in in time to catch the passable Jasmine Minks support set. Primal Scream, purveyors of a deliciously meandering and 60's psychedelic/ pop influenced album in this year's "Sonic Flower Groove", however lived up more to their name than their reputation; they were an utter racket, destroying their melodic material with swathes of punk rock, and doing a version of The Clash's "White Riot" which ended in a very drunken vocalist Bobby Gillespie rolling around on the floor. Hmmm...