Letting the light back in

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream tells Ed Power about drugs, Kate Moss and his band’s storming return with a superb new album

BOBBY Gillespie is talking drugs. “It gets boring,” says the Primal Scream singer about his band’s reputation for chemical debauchery. “To a degree, we brought it on ourselves — it was an image we cultivated.”

What about that notorious anecdote in which a UK journalist witnessed the group discussing whether to “have Vietnamese, Chinese or Indian” — and was perturbed to discover they were discussing heroin?