The Primitives were formed at the beginning of 1986. Four youngsters from Coventry with a mission to carry on the message of Blondie and the Buzzcocks and to take their exciting chainsaw pop into the Top 10.

Fronted by Tracey and guitarist/song-writer Paul Court the band brought youthful glamour into a chart dominated by wizened old computer/studio operators hiding behind winsome nobodies. Their first recordings were released on their own independent label ‘Lazy’, this included the track, Thru The Flowers, an indie chart No. 1 which also dented the middle reaches of the Top 100, the song was also performed on the popular early evening chat show ‘Wogan’!

At the tail end of 1987 they signed their ‘Lazy’ label to RCA and their next single Crash raced to the No. 5 slot in the Top 20 and they appeared on Top Of The Pops twice. The Primitives then released their debut album ‘Lovely’ which entered the national chart at No. 6 in early April and sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone. A follow up single from the album Out Of Reach rose to No.25 in the chart and resulted in yet another TOTP appearance. Towards the end of 1988 The Primitives completed a highly successful sell out tour of major venues throughout the UK resulting in two nights at London’s Town & Country Club.

The early part of 1989 saw the band back in the studio recording their second album ‘Pure’. The first single release from the album Sick Of It reached No. 22 in the charts and another UK tour followed. In September came the single Secrets which preceded the release of the ‘Pure’ album which turned out to be an even stronger work than ‘Lovely’, the album also achieved sales over the 100,000 mark.

The start of 1990 saw The Primitives touring the USA for the second time, this time on a co-heading tour with The Sugarcubes. They followed this with a short tour of Japan later in the year and then sat back and watched the second summer of love in two years take place.

The Primitives spent the tail end of ‘90 and the beginning of ‘91 recording their last album for RCA, ‘Galore’, with producer Ian Broudie of Echo & The Bunnymen and Lightning Seeds fame. What they achieved was a beautiful, bold open album with a stronger psychedelic feel than before. A single from the album You Are The Way was released in August ‘91.

From the Sleeve of the Best of The Primitives CD