Primal Scream Celebrate 25 Years of ‘XTRMNTR’ at London’s Roundhouse

Primal Scream celebrated 25 years of their classic ‘XTRMNTR’ album at London’s Roundhouse last night (Monday December 8).

The band played their 2000 record in full,performing the likes of ‘Kill All Hippies’,’Swastika Eyes’ and ‘Shoot Speed/Kill Light’ before breaking out some of their biggest songs including ‘Loaded’,’Movin’ On Up’ and Rocks.

‘XTRMNTR’ marked a major departure for Primal Scream, as they embraced a harsher, more provocative sonic palette that drew from industrial, hard electronic and noise rock sounds. The Chemical Brothers and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields were involved in the production,while late Stone Roses bassist Mani shared songwriting credits with the band for the first time. The former did not appear at last night’s gig and recently performed a run of shows with MBV.

The record also saw the band grapple with dark political themes, taking aggressive stances on government ideologies and self-serving global power structures on tracks like ‘Swastika Eyes’, an assault on authoritarianism and the corrosive effect of corporate greed.

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Primal Scream’s Full Setlist From Their 2001 NME Awards Performance

Published: 2025/12/09 12:55:07

Primal Scream’s blistering performance at the 2001 NME Awards has resurfaced online, complete with the full setlist from that night. The band were honoured with the Best Album award at the 2001 NME Awards and later landed at Number Three in our Albums of the Decade list.

Primal Scream played:

‘Kill All Hippies’
‘Accelerator’
‘Exterminator’
‘Swastika Eyes’
‘Pills’
‘blood Money’
‘keep Yoru Dreams’
‘Insect Royalty’
‘MBV Arkestra (If They Move, Kill ‘Em)’
‘Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brothers Remix)’
‘Shoot Speed/Kill Light’
‘Jailbird’
‘Loaded’
‘Movin’ On Up’
‘Contry Girl’
‘Rocks’

the band’s former bassist Mani – who was a member of Primal Scream from 1996 until 2011 – died at the age of 63 last month.

Frontman, Bobby Gillespie recently shared the story of when he and Mani met Joey Ramone describing it as “like a scene from a movie” which took place during the recording sessions for ‘XTRMNTR’, and specifically as they were finishing off the psychedelic track ‘When The Kingdom Comes’, which would go on to be released as a B-side on the ‘Accelerator’ single.

“Whilst we were mixing the song there was a knock at our studio door and I answered it only to find the one and only Joey Ramone @ramones standi