Matt O'Neill, Journalist

"When we first started listening to music, everything was Britpop - and that wasn’t what we were about at all. We were much more into what was happening in America around Seattle."

Chaotic inconsistency and stylistic diversity are two of the key reasons Primal Scream are still such a great band 30 years after their formation but, tonight, that inconsistency simply leaves an audience wanting.

“I think the new album’s sounding good. We just premiered a new song at a gig recently and it went down really well. It’s probably the heaviest song we’ve ever written.”

"The reception for the EP has been really great – we’ve gotten some nice reviews and people have been very kind to us. It’s all going a bit better than I expected, really.”

"I don’t have any expectations. I just want to keep writing music. I want to be more prolific – because for years there I just wasn’t doing anything at all."

“I don’t want to speak for the guys but I don’t think of Bankrupt Billionaires as a side-project for The Optimen anymore. I’m not sure it ever has been.”

"The people who I respect, generally speaking, can see the work that goes into my music. I feel I’m more misrepresented as a person, really. People who like my music meet me and think I’m going to be this loudmouth."

"I think it’s funny that people always feel compelled to put a label on everything. It’s actually all just funny to me. Especially when you put a track on Soundcloud, they expect you to put a genre in and I’m never sure what I’m supposed to write."

"For three years, I didn’t really get any amazing news at all – and now, every single day, somebody calls me with some new thing that has never happened to me before."

“I was writing on and off. I’m always writing. I’ve written many, many songs over the past couple of years. Eventually, there was just a time where I realised I was ready to record.”