Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960’s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream Despite being a great fan of Primal Scream, JAMC and Bobby Gillespie, nothing had prepared me for the greatness of his first memoir Tenement Kid. Written during the lockdown periods of the pandemic, …
The Jesus and Mary Chain play their milestone album Darklands in full length on their upcoming tour (click here to check dates and buy tickets). Our author Shawn Ciavattone reviewed the album and talked to Jim Reid about the album, touring, and the band’s influences. The Jesus and Mary Chain play Darklands – the tour …
The follow-up to The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut album was never going to be an easy task for our heroes from Scotland. Rarely does a band put together all the pieces of sound, attitude and songwriting skills the way they did on Psychocandy (1985). A unique mix of early rock’n’roll, surf and dense, dissonant …
