MOST days during lockdown, Bobby Gillespie left his home in north London and walked two miles to the studio owned by his wife, the fashion stylist Katy England.
There, he wrote. As a musician who has spent almost 40 years in bands – first as drummer with The Jesus And Mary Chain and then with Primal Scream – these sessions proved to be an unusually solitary, not to say quiet, creative experience. For the most part, Gillespie was working on Tenement Kid –a memoir that follows him from childhood in Glasgow up to the release of the Screamdelica album in 1991.