Saw Primal Scream at Canes in San Diego last Friday. One hell of a brilliant show of ridiculous over the top rock and roll excess that wound up the relatively small audience into a pack of happy pogo’ers. More shows should be like this. The set list was wisely limited to the last three albums (with a couple of exceptions) and on the whole I preferred the live sound to the studio albums – which isn’t the first time I’ve said this.
No Kevin Shields though – he was out for the US shows this time. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he’ll be back on the next tour, since I missed seeing My Bloody Valentine out of my own stupidity (“oh I’ll catch them next tour”). However any day you get to hear Mani on bass is a good day indeed.
I love seeing shows at Canes. It’s a little non-descript beach club in San Diego that just gets some amazing shows – Spiritualized and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Mogwai and Bardo Pond. Never really gets crowded and the sound is great.