As a rock star with a once-legendary reputation for hedonism, Bobby Gillespie knows a thing or two about excessive noise and boorish behaviour. His band, Primal Scream, performed with such X-rated verve at Glastonbury in But the 42-year-old son of a Glasgow publican, who once thought nothing of A letter sent to Islington Council by the singer, obtained by The Independent, complained that the Alma Pub on Newington Green had been Gillespie, who has two young sons, Wolf and Lux, and last year married his long-term partner, Katy England, a stylist, at a celebrity-packed ceremony, said that music from the Alma, an upmarket gastropub, one night prevented The former hellraiser turned outraged suburbanite, who once practised by playing dustbin lids, said: There was a live percussionist playing along with the records, the sound was of a very high frequency which reverberated into my bedroom and my children's bedroom. I found the repetitiveness disturbing and I was unable to sleep because of it.
At the height of their powers Primal Scream, who won the inaugural Mercury Prize in 1992, were renowned not only for dance-influenced rock masterpieces Vietnamese, Chinese or Indian . When the reporter suggested a burger, one of the band turned around and said: It's heroin we're discussing. Not food.
Older and more sober, Gillespie, who counts Kate Moss, Pete Doherty, Sadie Frost and Mick Jones among his friends, has become a devoted father more He said recently: We go into the studio to work. You can't be creative if you're fucked up on drugs. So I prefer to be clean.
authority, the singer, whose mother Wilma ran a pub in Glasgow, complained Mercifully for the rock star, the members of Licensing Sub-Committee A of Islington Borough Council had some sympathy. Although they agreed to extend 1am Monday to Sunday, they ruled it could happen no more than once a month. Gillespie and the management of the Alma declined to comment yesterday.
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