No confetti cannons needed as Primal Scream bring a career spanning party to Liverpool’s Mountford Hall

There’s a menacing grin on the face of Bobby Gillespie. We’re moments from the finale of Primal Scream’s set inside Liverpool’s Mountford Hall, and the frontman looks just about ready for a fight, as the group build into the climax of their riotous anthem ‘Country Girl’. But even after a flurry of era-defining anthems like ‘Loaded’ and ‘Movin’ On Up’, the biggest testament to the band is that tonight has never felt like a nostalgia trip.

That’s perhaps because Primal Scream have always thrived through subtle evolution. At the very least, last year’s twelfth studio album ‘Come Ahead’ was proof that the Glaswegian icons are still capable of bringing the party. Having survived the hedonistic highs of the nineties and their bruising, rock and roll spills of the noughties, Gillespie still remains firmly up for it.

And that sentiment is clear from the off tonight, as the band kickstart a lengthy set with the strobing ‘Screamadelica’ anthem ‘Don’t Fight It, Feel It’. Backed by shimmering gospel singers in disco ball dresses and technicolour visuals, it’s as good an introduction as any, as Gillespie stalks the stage in a white suit that wouldn’t be out of place in the golden soul era they readily channel.