It's Alright, It's Okay Video by Primal Scream

Ahead of Primal Scream's eagerly anticipated 10th studio album – their first in five years – we are happy to present the band's latest video for It's Alright, It's Okay. To further the celebration, the band's irrepressible frontman Bobby Gillespie features in the latest issue of Another Man. Shot by Niall O'Brien and styled by Katy England in S/S13 Saint Laurent, Gillespie also speaks candidly to Alex Needham about the band's return, drugs and the current state of rock.

A full version of the feature appears in the S/S13 issue of Another Man...

"Whatever else he has been accused of, Gillespie – who formed Primal Scream in 1982 – has never been described as polite or safe. Now 50, he has spent most of his life devotedly worshipping sex, drugs and rock’n’roll – particularly the last two. However, for the past four and a half years Gillespie has been drug-free. “Right now we’re pretty sharp, clear-headed and we’re feeling more stuff so we’re able to write about it,” he murmurs in a Glaswegian accent that has endured despite decades down south. “We’re not blocked any more – we were blocked for a while. But I’m the only guy in the band that’s clean. On tour I still hang out after the gig, I just don’t get involved in the more serious… stuff.”

"Right now we’re pretty sharp, clear-headed and we’re feeling more stuff so we’re able to write about it”

Happily, Gillespie’s addiction to rock’n’roll still rages unabated. Even pushing a pram in a Marc Jacobs ad a few years ago he looked every inch the frontman, and today is as skinny as a rolledup tenner in flares, boots and an army shirt, his famous hair collarlength and centre parted. Now his narcotic days are behind him, how does he stay so thin? “Good genes and a fast metabolism,” he says, flashing a rare and wolfish grin."

Interview by Alex Needham