Tenement Kid
Bobby Gillespie Third Man Books

Tenement Kid

Pages

330

Format

Paperback

Release date

October 2021

Publisher

Third Man Books

Weight

1.11 lbs

Size

6 x 0.01 x 8.5 "

So much more than a rockstar’s memoir, Tenement Kid is also a book filled with the joy and wonder of a rock’n’roll apostle who radically reshaped the future sounds of fin de sieÌcle British pop.

Structured in four parts, Tenement Kid builds like a break beat crescendo from Gillespie’s working-class Glaswegian upbringing to the “Second Summer of Love” that saw the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starting to pulse through the Great Britain’s consciousness. In this book, Gillespie takes us through the release of Screamadelica and the tour that followed as Primal Scream become the most innovative British band of the new decade.