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“Happy New Year, you mother-fuckers”, growls gangly, one-time chemical repository Bobby Gillespie, though no amount of attitude from the suave black-suited Glaswegian disguises the fact that Edinburgh’s Hogmanay party is probably the most commercial gig they’ve ever played. Still, the Scream’s final gig of 2011 and last ever with bass lynchpin Mani before he returns to the Stone Roses is roared through with such swagger you’d think the thousands of people lining the streets for the fireworks are all for him.
The more somnambulant moments of ‘Screamadelica’ are dispensed with. Instead they wisely stick to hits like ‘Movin’ On Up’s soul-
ful holler, the stoner funk of ‘Slip Inside This House’ and ‘Come Together’s still-glorious gospel and acid house crossroads, with ‘Loaded’ the obvious choice for first song of the New Year. The grim, speed-laced industrial techno crunch of ‘Swastika Eyes’ aside, this was a worthy soundtrack to earn the first hangover of 2012 to.
