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By Ann Sulaiman on Oct 18, 2010 | In News, News, News, Features | Send feedback »
According to an update for October/Samhain on the Primordial MySpace blog, frontman Alan Averill (otherwise known as A.A. Nemtheanga) has announced the return of ex-drummer Simon O'Laoghaire to their line-up.
Following a drunken mishap during a gig in Athens earlier this year, O'Laoghaire was later dismissed from the band which then led to a temporary search for a new drummer. Even though Nemtheanga's cousin Gareth had taken up the position for the remainder of Primordial's European tour, it was eventually decided that the previous line-up was best for the impending new album.
Expanding on this issue further, A.A. Nemtheanga writes:
"Suffice is to say Simon is the drummer of Primordial and I have no doubt this will never change, he is fit and well and we rehearsed yesterday. For our own piece of mind we had to audition people and in hindsight maybe something positive came out of it in that we had to put the album recording back and I feel we will be better prepared. We all of course have a long history together of over two decades in various personal combinations and to put it mundanely you go through ups and downs and this year has had more than it’s fair share of downs. For the first time in years we played a few very average shows and by our own admission became unfocused. Yet as always we regroup, our own biggest critics and in one month we enter the studio to record album number seven.
"The whole experience and auditioning drummers at the very least gave us a greater insight into the dynamic that makes Primordial Primordial and that dynamic belongs to all five of us. We may have stand ins for shows now and again because we are not a professional band nor make a living from it and life gets in the way of us all doing every show but we realised that replace one of the five of us creatively and Primordial is not Primordial.
"For the foreseeable future Cathal Murphy is going to be behind the kit live, making his debut with us at the end of the month in Spain and Portugal. Simon is just taking a break for a short while, nothing more and nothing less. This will be our first time in Madrid and Barcelona since 2000 when we played with Immortal. Been way too long.
"Touring and festival plans are being thrown about now for 2011, hopefully some more news very soon…"
Primordial are set to work on the new album for the months of November and December; during which they shall be at Foel Studios in Wales.
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