Butler announced her departure on Instagram, she wrote: "I want to thank everyone who I’ve had the pleasure to play in front of for the last 13 years with Primal Scream. It truly has been an amazing ride with genuinely beautiful people. So so many incredible times, laughs and experiences. That’s the dream right there. Bobby, Andrew and the band are incredible musicians and people."
"Going forward I will no longer be playing with the band and shall miss that, but I truly wish them all the very best for the future. I’m incredibly grateful to have been part of this band for so long, to have travelled the entire world, to meet the most amazing people and amazing fans and to play music I love and learn so much from the guys as musicians and performers. It’s been a great learning curve," she continued.
She went to say that Primal Scream's music has " meant a lot to me even before I was playing those iconic bass lines" and thanks band members Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes for "taking a chance on me all those years ago. I love you all and although not on stage, I’ll always be part of the scream family X."
Butler first joined Primal Scream in 2012 after late bassist Mani quit to join The Stones Roses. Mani passed away at the age of 63 last November. News of the iconic bassists passsing was shared by his brother Greg to Instagram. He wrote: “IT IS WITH THE HEAVIEST OF HEARTS THAT I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD PASSING OF MY BROTHER GARY MANI MOUNFIELD. RIP RKID.”
At the time of Mani's passing, Butler took to Instagram to express her sadness following the news, she wrote: “Truly in shock at this. An incredible loss to everyone who knew and loved him. The moment u met Mani u loved him. The most brilliant and wickedly sharp sense of humour and the biggest heart and generosity. The smile in that first pics was so absolutely him. He called me his scorpio bass sister. My heart is breaking for his boys, family and loved ones. Was meant to see him tmro in Manchester. A terrible and sad loss. An amazing person, so so loved by everyone all over the world X just heartbreaking.”
More recently she shared a memory of Mani when she first joined the band. “When I joined the Scream and Mani started to come and watch shows I’d be tentatively hanging in the dressing room while his jokes and laughter set the tone and thinking to myself ‘Jesus don’t fk anything up tonight’ and then one night he came out with ‘you go and smash it sister I fkin love you, but it is like watching yer ex bird being fkd by the new guy’. We all burst into laughter and I knew at that point he was a stone cold legend," she recalled.
