PRIMAL SCREAM - XTRMNTR

SJM Concerts Presents 
PRIMAL SCREAM - XTRMNTR 
Plus Special Guest Escape-ism
 
The tour kicks off with a two night homecoming at Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland on 3rd and 4th September followed by stops at NX in Newcastle (8th), Nottingham’s Rock City (9th), New Century Hall in Manchester (11th), Electric in Bristol (13th) before finishing in London at HERE at Outernet on 15th September. 
The tour meets huge demand for Primal Scream to perform XTRMNTR live in its entirety, following the band's special 25th anniversary performance of the album at London's Roundhouse in 2025, described by CLASH as “more prescient, urgent and needed than ever’. The 2026 XTRMNTR Tour follows Primal Scream's Come Ahead world tour. Performing in support of the band's widely acclaimed 12th studio album release, the tour took in major shows and festival performances across the UK, Europe, South America, Japan and Australia, praised as a “career spanning party” by DIY Magazine and “joyous” by Rolling Stone. 
Primal Scream released Come Ahead in November 2024 to widespread enthusiasm from fans and critics, MOJO stated "Come Ahead is up there with Primal Scream’s best" and the London Standard championed “the album of the year” in a five star review. Record Collector found “an album by a band which has been audibly reborn”, AnOther Magazine praised “joyous soul-shaking music”, CLASH proclaimed, "Come Ahead is another high in a career full of them," whilst Classic Pop confirmed, "Primal Scream just became important again".
Looking ahead, Primal Scream have announced the first details of The Bunker Trilogy, a special collection of expanded reissues of some of the band’s most revered and experimental albums: Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR and Evil Heat. More information on the trilogy will be shared soon.
Outside of Primal Scream, Bobby Gillespie is at his most prolific creatively, shapeshifting between some of the most celebrated projects of his career. As he stockpiled the songs that would become Come Ahead, his 2021 memoir Tenement Kid was selected as Rough Trade’s Book of the Year, and won the NME Award for Best Music Book. The band’s era-defining Screamadelica album celebrated its 30th anniversary with huge sold out gigs across the UK, including London’s Alexandra Palace. Gillespie teamed with Paul Weller writing lyrics for ‘Soul Wandering’, the first single from his latest album 66, and collaborated with Jehnny Beth in Paris writing and recording an entire album of duets titled Utopian Ashes. Bobby also recently collaborated with Yttling Jazz on new track Strange, with acid house duo Paranoid London on their song ‘People (Ah Yeah)’ and sang and co-produced ‘Prisoner of Beauty’ with The Limiñanas. He also composed his first movie soundtrack for the cinematic release Five Hectares with French filmmaker Émilie Deleuze and sang on six new songs on the new Peter Perrett album, The Cleansing.