📱 eBook en inglés Tenement Kid

Tenement Kid is Bobby Gillespies story up to the recording and release of the album that has been credited with starting the 90s, Screamadelica.

Born into a working class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, Bobbys memoirs begin in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heaths brutal slum clearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers apprentice, Bobbys rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynotts mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with the holy spirit of rock n roll his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then in Primal Scream.

Structured in four parts, Tenement Kid builds like a breakbeat crescendo to the final quarter of the book, the Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall in an East Sussex field. As the 80s bleed into the 90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nations consciousness, Primal Scream become the most innovative British band of the new decade, representing a new psychedelic vanguard taking shape at Creation Records.

Ending with the release of Screamadelica and the tour that followed in the autumn, Tenement Kid is a book filled with the joy and wonder of a rock n roll apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of fin de siècle British pop. Published thirty years after the release of their masterpiece, Bobby Gillespies memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house.