Sex Pistols announce 30th anniversary gig
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A mere £37.50 to see some drunk old men run through some fairly mediocre songs and some cover versions. Might as well go to a covers night at Bakers Vault in Stockport.
MONTY wrote: FUCKIN HELL!! Any date for this yet?
you are joking right Mont. shite. only one crap album.
i saw them at finsbury park during euro 96.they were ok and very powerful and loud.a landmark group that is good to have been able to see once,but it will only be once because i wont be travelling back to london only 4 days after doing the stranglers 30th in london.
King John Honest John wrote:
MONTY wrote: FUCKIN HELL!! Any date for this yet?
you are joking right Mont. shite. only one crap album.
you WHAT???
Michael Monkhouse wrote:
King John Honest John wrote:
MONTY wrote: FUCKIN HELL!! Any date for this yet?
you are joking right Mont. shite. only one crap album.
you WHAT???
I'd go and see the PiL. but not them.
King John Honest John wrote: I'd go and see the PiL. but not them.
Ditto.
Will Johnny Rotten be eating kangaroo testicles live on stage?
ally wrote:
King John Honest John wrote: I'd go and see the PiL. but not them.
Ditto.
Will Johnny Rotten be eating kangaroo testicles live on stage?
I'd prefer PIL too. But Virgin ain't sponsoring 'em, they bust all their money on the Spice Girls.
Uncle Liam wrote: A mere £37.50 to see some drunk old men run through some fairly mediocre songs and some cover versions. Might as well go to a covers night at Bakers Vault in Stockport.
Sound like some other band we 'follow' eh 
Worry not if you want to go to this and it sells out in minutes (as it will) - they are doing 3 nights in total (they just haven't told anyone yet!).
And I will second the comments about their '96 tour, saw them at Phoenix Festival, very VERY powerful live, still one of my all time gigs.
J
jake atkinson wrote: Worry not if you want to go to this and it sells out in minutes (as it will) - they are doing 3 nights in total (they just haven't told anyone yet!).
And I will second the comments about their '96 tour, saw them at Phoenix Festival, very VERY powerful live, still one of my all time gigs.
J
yea that was my comment.very powerful,it rocked!!!
I saw them at the Crystal Palace Bowl a few years ago. I was covered in bruises and absolutely fucking knackered. No fun? Great fun.........!
:bag:
banshee wrote:
jake atkinson wrote: Worry not if you want to go to this and it sells out in minutes (as it will) - they are doing 3 nights in total (they just haven't told anyone yet!).
And I will second the comments about their '96 tour, saw them at Phoenix Festival, very VERY powerful live, still one of my all time gigs.
J
yea that was my comment.very powerful,it rocked!!!
Grant,did you know Siouxsie & the banshees are also at the roundhouse 2 days after the Strangs 
Santfekuss wrote:
banshee wrote:
jake atkinson wrote: Worry not if you want to go to this and it sells out in minutes (as it will) - they are doing 3 nights in total (they just haven't told anyone yet!).
And I will second the comments about their '96 tour, saw them at Phoenix Festival, very VERY powerful live, still one of my all time gigs.
J
yea that was my comment.very powerful,it rocked!!!
Grant,did you know Siouxsie & the banshees are also at the roundhouse 2 days after the Strangs
ive just taken a look and its the night after.just siouxsie with a band doing her album,but some old stuff.i dont think i'd get away with another night there anyway 
well i did also think that having grown up listening to them, that a gig on the doorstep would be good,even if they are bad it will be something to remember! managed to get tickets only for the site to hang up at the confirmation stage...dont you just hate that? then it wouldnt let me get any more as it already had my card details.....never did receive confirmation...oh well it is the night before the Verve....go and see them instead...
"...Guitar Hero III will sponsor the upcoming Sex Pistols concert at London's The Brixton Academy on November 8. "
MONTY wrote: And Manchester MEN Arena on Nivember 17th.Tickets go on sale this Friday.
Or not...
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Did any of you see the Pistols live back in 76-78?
no mate. i was 6. Banshee might have been old enough to bunk in then though.
I was ermm, in a hotel in Croydon waiting for someone to ermm turn up about 1am back in c.2002/3, when suddenly a load of snarling forty-somethings with dyed red hair gatecrashed the bar pushing people about. After emptying the place except for me, I ended up talking to em, and they'd been to see the Pistols at Crystal Palace.
What was hilarious was that most of these snarling old punks were now stockbrokers living in big houses in Surrey.
Burt Reynolds wrote: I was ermm, in a hotel in Croydon waiting for someone to ermm turn up about 1am back in c.2002/3, when suddenly a load of snarling forty-somethings with dyed red hair gatecrashed the bar pushing people about. After emptying the place except for me, I ended up talking to em, and they'd been to see the Pistols at Crystal Palace.
What was hilarious was that most of these snarling old punks were now stockbrokers living in big houses in Surrey.
Shame really. Look at Johnny himself. The man has real estate business, owns a TV cable, poses with models on a deserted island and has enough impudence to sing pistols songs that he swore he would never do. I wish they performed in Iraq like Lydon stated recently. I doubt they'll dare though.
without pistols shaking this country from the american disco period around 1976 what would have happened? would we have had post punk after the punk ? blondie,police,bunnymen,cure etc would not have been..actually would there have been a joy division,therefore new order? respect the people that got us out of a musical stand still at that time,even though pistols were fucking knobs 
I am not aware of Lydon owning a TV Cable company. If he chooses to invest his money in real estate, thats his business and I have no issue with it.
Lydon is not going to stay poor forever. The man has been making albums and touring for the better part of 30 years. Of course he is going to have money. At least he is honest about it. Not like Joe Strummer, the born wealthy middle class son of a diplomat who pretended to be working class. Lydon may be crass, but he is honest.
However.......
I do love the Sex Pistols, and I would go see them if I could....
But I think that Lydon is taking the easy way out. I always loved how he pushed the boundaries so much with PIL, and with his 1997 solo album...
Since then, I have eagerly been awaiting a new solo or PIL album and tour from Lydon.
Instead he just reforms the Sex Pistols every few years to replay the same 15 songs we have heard a zillion times.
However.....thats his choice. Who am I to criticize John Lydon? He is one of the most influential and pivotal figures in music. He changed the face and world of modern music. He owes us nothing. All the music that the Pistols and PIL were part of.....English Punk and Post Punk....thats the music that i grew up with, and it means the most to me.
I am sure the Pistols will put on some amazing shows this fall.
But, in all honestly, I would rather see Public Image Limited. Any day of the week.
well lydon was the front man but others behind were probally as much to do with pushing the bounderies.i agree with you ZAK about pil.excellent.although when i saw them a blackburn king georges around 85,they lasted 15 minutes.he threatened to break our arms and called the fans backwater small town northern cnuts! ( ha,well done john ).so it got nasty and then he walked off.
Zachery Starkey wrote: I am not aware of Lydon owning a TV Cable company. If he chooses to invest his money in real estate, thats his business and I have no issue with it.
Lydon is not going to stay poor forever. The man has been making albums and touring for the better part of 30 years. Of course he is going to have money. At least he is honest about it. Not like Joe Strummer, the born wealthy middle class son of a diplomat who pretended to be working class. Lydon may be crass, but he is honest.
However.......
I do love the Sex Pistols, and I would go see them if I could....
But I think that Lydon is taking the easy way out. I always loved how he pushed the boundaries so much with PIL, and with his 1997 solo album...
Since then, I have eagerly been awaiting a new solo or PIL album and tour from Lydon.
Instead he just reforms the Sex Pistols every few years to replay the same 15 songs we have heard a zillion times.
However.....thats his choice. Who am I to criticize John Lydon? He is one of the most influential and pivotal figures in music. He changed the face and world of modern music. He owes us nothing. All the music that the Pistols and PIL were part of.....English Punk and Post Punk....thats the music that i grew up with, and it means the most to me.
I am sure the Pistols will put on some amazing shows this fall.
But, in all honestly, I would rather see Public Image Limited. Any day of the week.
Brilliant post, agree with every word. I'd love to see at least one of the gigs but living in Italy I'd be several hundred Euros the worse off.
