"Coventry legends The Primitives to play two intimate city shows"

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The 1980s popstars will serenade fans with their biggest hits in November



Legendary Coventry band The Primitives will play two intimate hometown shows later this year. The group, led by Tracy Cattell, AKA Tracy Tracy, will bring their brand of jangly post-punk to The Tin on 25 and 26 of November 2025.

The gigs at the Canal Basin venue will close an 11-date UK tour to celebrate four decades since the band played their first gig at Coventry's historic pub the now demolished Hope and Anchor in the city centre. The band have been promoting the shows on social media.

A recent Facebook post stated: "As a celebration of the fact that somehow we are 40 years old this year we are doing an 11 date tour in November. It begins on the 14th, the very date in 1985 when the band first took to the stage, which was at The Hope & Anchor pub in Coventry, with freshly recruited singer Tracy and a bunch of hastily written fuzzy pop songs, including future Prims classics Thru The Flowers, Crash and Spacehead."

The tour will see the band play Milton Keynes, London, Bristol, Colchester, Brighton, Derby, York, Edinburgh, and Manchester before making a triumphant return to their hometown.

The band were a mainstay in the alternative and indie charts of the mid-80s, before enjoying a crossover hit with the single Crash, which also brought them airplay in the states - the song was later famously used in the Jim Carrey comedy Dumb and Dumber.

Their initial stint as a band came to an end in 1992. They later reformed in 2009 and have been touring and releasing music regularly ever since.