Primal Scream introduced out Paul Weller for ‘Rocks’ on the Brixton Academy Gig For Gaza profit present final night time (December 13).
Weller, former frontman of The Jam, curated the line-up for the profit present which was elevating cash for MAP (Medical Support For Palestinians) and Gaza Endlessly. Each charities present important help – together with meals, medical provides and emergency shelter – for these struggling in Gaza amid the present humanitarian disaster.
On the finish of Primal Scream’s 45-minute set, Weller joined them for ‘Rocks’, enjoying the music’s iconic opening riff on guitar.
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The band took to Instagram the following day to thank Weller and his spouse Hannah for organising the gig, whereas additionally praising the opposite artists who carried out. Kneecap, Paloma Religion, Lowkey, Liam Bailey and Roisin El Cherif had been additionally a part of the line-up.
“Paul joined us onstage for a raucous blowtorch model of Rocks to shut the proceedings – the look on Andrew Innes’s face to be sharing a stage with PW was priceless,” they stated. “A 15 yr outdated Andrew noticed The Jam on the In The Metropolis tour in the summertime of 1977 on the tiny Zhivago’s membership in St Enoch Sq. Glasgow and that was one of many punk reveals that yr that impressed Andrew to choose up a guitar and type a band. What a fucking nice night time it was.”
Over the summer time, Primal Scream collaborated on a brand new shirt design for a Palestinian refugee soccer staff, based mostly on their basic document ‘Screamadelica’.
In Might, Paul Weller expressed his help for Palestine by saying that he was “in opposition to genocides and ethnic cleaning”. His current stay reveals have seen him carry out onstage with a Palestinian flag draped over his guitar amp.
In the meantime, Primal Scream just lately introduced a 2025 UK and Eire headline tour in help of their new album ‘Come Forward’. They later confirmed that British indie singer Baxter Dury will be part of them in Bristol, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham, whereas Fats White Household will be part of as particular company for the one present in London.
Mozart Property will assist open the reveals in Bristol, Southampton, Birmingham, Liverpool and extra, whereas Dylan John Thomas may also carry out on the ultimate run of reveals, together with at Leeds and Newcastle.