Glaswegian Legend Bobby Gillespie

After listening to the Jesus and Mary Chain nonstop this morning, I was doing a little research on my favorite Glasgow rockers and saw this article on Bobby Gillespie from the Guardian way back in 2008. Favorite quote has to be when he's asked if he supports Hamas, and he responds by saying "No, I support Celtic FC." Legend!

Of course, this bit of reading did move me directly from The Jesus and Mary Chain straight to Primal Scream today. Great band.

Link to the article: HERE.

Strange and possibly true

1 Bobby Gillespie named his second son Lux after Lux Interior, the singer of horror rockers the Cramps.

2 Gillespie attracted controversy during Primal Scream's set at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival for insulting the crowd with a Nazi salute. He later claimed he did it because a hippy stole his ale.

3 Though Gillespie once defaced a 'Make Poverty History' poster so that it read 'Make Israel History', he does not support Hamas. 'No,' he said in 2006, 'I support Celtic.'

4 He was a roadie for the Eighties band Altered Images and the drummer for the Jesus and Mary Chain before forming Primal Scream.

5 Gillespie owns a bow tie formerly owned by Johnny Thunders.