Primal Scream announce full 2026 ‘XTRMNTR’ UK anniversary tour and ‘The Bunker Trilogy’ anniversary reissues

Primal Scream have announced a full 2026 ‘XTRMNTR’ UK anniversary tour and shared plans for an anniversary reissue of ‘The Bunker Trilogy’ – check out all the details below.

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Kicking off with a two-night homecoming at Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland on September 3 and 4, Bobby Gillespie and co. will also make stops at NX in Newcastle (September 8), Nottingham’s Rock City (September 9), New Century Hall in Manchester (September 11), and Electric in Bristol (September 13), before wrapping in London at HERE Outernet on September 15.

At each show, Primal Scream will perform ‘XTRMNTR’ live in its entirety, following the band’s 25th anniversary performance of the record at London’s Roundhouse back in December, and follows the world tour in support of their acclaimed 2024 album, ‘Come Ahead‘.

The band have also announced the first details surrounding ‘The Bunker Trilogy’ – a special collection of expanded reissues of some of the band’s most beloved and experimental albums, namely ‘Vanishing Point’, ‘XTRMNTR’ and ‘Evil Heat’. More information on the trilogy is expected be shared soon.

You can check out a full list of dates below, and find your tickets here on Friday (April 17).

Primal Scream’s 2026 XTRMNTR UK tour dates are:

September:
3 – Glasgow, Barrowland
4 – Glasgow, Barrowland
8 – Newcastle, NX
9 – Nottingham, Rock City
11 – Manchester, New Century Hall
13 – Bristol, Electric
15 – London, HERE at Outernet

‘XTRMNTR’ marked a major departure for Primal Scream, as they moved toward a harsher, more provocative sound that drew indiscriminately from industrial, electronic and noise rock. The Chemical Brothers and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields were involved in the production, while late Stone Roses bassist Mani shared songwriting credits with the band for the first time.

The record also saw the band grapple with dark political themes, taking aggressive stances on government ideologies and self-serving global power structures on tracks like ‘Swastika Eyes’, an assault on authoritarianism and the corrosive effect of corporate greed.

Late last year, they played the record in full at the aforementioned gig at the Roundhouse to some controversy, after the venue shared a statement saying it was “appalled” by the band showing visuals that were said to blend a Star of David with a swastika, and were reported to police as a result.

As the band played ‘Swastika Eyes’, they played a video that reportedly showed the Star of David entwined with a swastika. In the visuals, various political figures – including Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US president Donald Trump – had the symbol in place of their eyes.

“The film is a piece of art,” a statement from the band in defence of the visuals read. “It clearly draws from history to question where the actions of current world governments sit in that context.”

At the time, they added that it was “meant to provoke debate, not hate”, and “in a free, pluralistic and liberal society, freedom of expression is a right which we choose to exercise.”

Upon the release of ‘XTRMNTR’, NME rated the album 9/10 and wrote: “ The music scene’s not so hot, either. That we could do with a fully plugged-in, turned-on, fucked-off Primal Scream at this point is hardly front-page news; for ‘Exterminator’ to pulverise the senses with quite such righteous, incendiary beauty most definitely is.”

The record went on to be named by NME as the second-best album of 2000, it picked up the Best Album award at the 2001 NMEAwards and later landed at Number Three in our Albums of the Decade list.