Music
15 Nov 24

Primal Scream add extra 3Olympia date after selling out first show

Tickets start from €45.70 including booking fees and are on sale now

Ahead of releasing their first studio album in eight years, Come Ahead, Glaswegian rockers Primal Scream have announced further details of their upcoming UK & EU tour.

Due to extreme demand, the band have added a second show at 3Olympia Theatre for 16th April 2025 after selling out the previous night.

Tickets start from €45.70 including booking fees and are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

The Come Ahead tour marks Primal Scream's highly-anticipated return to the live circuit following 2022's Screamadelica Live and a string of 2023 summer headliners.

Come Ahead, which dropped on 8th November, finds Primal Scream’s principal songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie releasing some of the most personal songwriting of his band’s career.

The songwriting process for Come Ahead began in 2022, at which point Gillespie had no idea if he would make another Primal Scream album again. It marked a new creative exercise for the Scottish rock legend where the lyrics came before the music. The process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new springboard from which to jump. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.

The time that's elapsed since the Scottish band's previous album has seen Bobby Gillespie at his most prolific and personal, shapeshifting between some of the most celebrated projects of his career whilst steadily stockpiling the songs that would become Come Ahead.

"The title is a Glaswegian term. If someone threatens to fight you, you say, ‘come ahead!’ It’s redolent of the indomitable spirit of the Glaswegian, and the album itself shares that aggressive attitude and confidence," Gillespie says. "They have a word for this up there, gallus. Come Ahead’s quite a cheeky title too.”

Hot Press' Will Russel gave the album an 8/10, saying: "On the Primals’ last outing, 2016’s Chaosmosis, head buck-cat Bobby Gillespie delivered his most intimate record, and he doubles down on that schtick here."