Primal Scream Star Ruins Charity Campaign

Poor misguided Bobby Gillespie. Like the David Brent of protest marchers, the Primal Scream frontman’s simplistic sixth-form sloganeering (try saying that when pissed) has landed him in a big embarrassing puddle of shame. You know - the sort he must have felt when the Evil Heat reviews starting pouring in.

According to those cheeky chappies over at Holy Moly, Michael Eavis - smiley bald organiser of the Glastonbury Festival - was busily rushing around this years musicfest, charity-helping plans at the forefront of his bearded mind.

Eavis, you see, had a big old poster upon which he’d been collecting celebrity signatures for a couple of years now. Needless to say, Eavis is a well connected man - best buddies with the likes of Radiohead and so forth. His plans? To auction the poster off in aid of Make Poverty History.

So there Mikey was, scurrying around and getting all sorts of pop stars to scribble their inky names. All was going well.

Until he asked Mr. Gillespie to sign it.

The Bobster - full of the downtrodden, working-class vitriol that can be found only in Primrose Hill - decided that he’d use this opportunity to make a political ’statement.’ Or STTMNT, as the typesetter for XTRMNTR would have it.

Bobby apparently thought it would be a spankingly good idea to scrawl the words "Make Israel History" across the poster, thus rendering it a little unsuitable for a hand-holding ‘good cause’ auction. It goes without saying that the organisers are oh-so-slightly incensed about all of this - having been left with something about as marketable as a Union Jack saying ‘Skinheads Rule’ signed by Mcfly.

Eavis is reported to have shoved the poster back in their faces and told them to "keep it."  But the best/worst thing about all of this? It took Bobby three separate attempts to spell ‘Israel’ properly.

"You got the money," the ‘Scream once sang. "I got the soul."

A shame you ditched the brains roundabout 1991, isn’t it, Bob?

[story by C J Davies]