The Primitives

The Primitives - three night acoustics residency aboard The Golden Hinde - March 2026. YouTube video by The Primitives

Here’s a short film of our visit to The Golden Hinde in St Mary Overie Dock in London this week, where we played three intimate acoustic shows over three consecutive nights. It was an amazing, nerve wracking and unique experience, and a cherished highlight of our career. Thanks to all who attended.

Tracy and Paul (and Tig obscured) play acoustic gig amid a lot of timber dry docked on the River Thames

The Primitives on The Golden Hinde last nite. What’s the best gig you’ve been to on a full size reconstruction of an English galleon that, captained by Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580?

One week to go till this. Just a handful of tix left for the Monday show.
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The Primitives’ Tracy Tracy on rubbing elbows with Morrissey and Björk: ‘If I didn’t get into singing, I’d probably have gone into fashion’ The one-time British indie pop star now teaches English classes and in February celebrates the 40th anniversary of her iconic group with a Spanish tour

Here's an English version of TT's interview in Spanish newspaper El País...

El refugio español de The Primitives

@theprimitives.bsky.social celebran 40 años de carrera y, para ello, han regrabado su single de debut, “Thru The Flowers”, con el sello @elefantrecords1.bsky.social

@cescguimera.bsky.social habla con la banda británica antes de sus actuaciones esta semana en Madrid, Valencia y Barcelona.

No te pierdas los conciertos de THE PRIMITIVES en:

MADRID 12 Febrero (Últimas entradas!!)) Sala El Sol
VALENCIA 13 febrero Sala 16 Toneladas
BARCELONA 14 Febrero Sala Wolf

¡¡Gira 40 Aniversario!! @theprimitives.bsky.social

Tracy interviewed in Spanish newspaper El País.

Ah close enough. Thanks for spotting.

Nice. Trying to think of some other Prims sailing ship puns.
Could only manage Stop Keeling Me - rubbish.

Six weeks to go till our three night acoustic residency aboard The Golden Hinde.
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There's 20% off all T shirts at the Prims' merch shop today and tomorrow. Use code TS20OFF at checkout....

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Three more shows in Feb...

Paul and Tracy are among the guests on the latest Lived Through That podcast...chatting about the Prims' Christmas song. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Prims shop is open for business again. There is some tour surplus up for grabs theprimitives.bigcartel.com

The Primitives 40th Anniversary Tour Photo Montage YouTube video by The Primitives

Some pics from the recent tour..

A couple of intimate hometown shows tonight and tomorrow night to round off the tour.
Only 8 tickets left for tonight.
Stagetimes:
8pm The Cords
9pm The Primitives

Five tour dates left. Tonight we play The Crescent in York, Knitting Circle are supporting.
See Tickets have sold out of tix for the Coventry shows. The venue have last few for sale… thetinmusicandarts.org.uk/events/

Thanks to Julian at Moonshake Design for doing us this beautiful 2 colour A2 screen print for the tour (the blue is iridescent - very nice!). Limited edition of 50 - artist signed/numbered. Available at the merch table on the tour and if any are left at the end we’ll put them in our online shop.

The Primitives - Sweet Sister Sorrow YouTube video by theprimitivesVEVO

Here is the previously unreleased first version of Sweet Sister Sorrow - B side of limited edition anniversary 7-inch. Available at the merch table on our tour which starts Friday + a few indie record shops. Both tracks are also available on music streaming services. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMOr...

THE PRIMITIVES - Thru The Flowers (85/25) [Official] YouTube video by Elefant Records

The new reworked version of our first single. The video is a pictorial history of the band.

New merch items for the tour which begins one week tomorrow (Nov 14).
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An interview in the current edition of Record Collector magazine.

2 weeks to go!!
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Our tour begins 3 weeks today.
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We are pleased to announce the release of a special anniversary 7” single bookending 40 years of Prims’ songs. A rework of our 1st release + alt version of our last single. Also our covers album is being reissued on white splatter vinyl. Both out 7/11.
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The Primitives - Episode 29 - Interview with Paul Court

A potted history of The Prims plus further revelations in an interview on the latest Uncharted Sounds podcast... open.spotify.com/episode/3slZ...

Tracy and Paul are the guests on the latest edition of The Hustle podcast...

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Three upcoming live dates beginning one week today... www.seetickets.com/tour/the-pri...

Two weeks till we play live again. Newcastle, Inverness-shire, Liverpool www.seetickets.com/tour/the-pri...

Let’s Go Round Again - Second Wave Singles and rarities 2011-2025 cd album - Japanese import A 28 track CD album featuring singles, miscellanea and rarities from the second life of The Primitives. Released by Testcard Records. Includes...

The CD of the recent compilation is now on sale in our shop. theprimitives.bigcartel.com/product/lets...