Subsol #3/2022
Peter Bagge + Bobby Gillespie + Baya Baye
“Subsol” is a brand new popular culture and subculture festival at the CCCB, which aims to make room for projects that by definition are excluded from the parameters of serious or “highbrow” culture.
Bobby Gillespie
A kid from the tenements
Bobby Gillespie (Glasgow, 1961) is the lead singer, songwriter and founding member of Primal Scream, and one of the few sixty-one-year-old men who can wear leather pants with enviable poise and dignity. He has released eleven albums with his band, including Screamadelica (1991), ...
Peter Bagge
The nightmare of the American dream
OK, so we weren’t in Seattle in the early 90s, but thanks to Peter Bagge (Peekskill, 1957) we learned that the hate there was very similar to the hate here. Few artists have managed to chronicle the disaffection, acne-covered-alienation, misanthropy, and indignation of youth like Bagge. ...