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The Sex Pistols are set to do 30th anniversary reunion gig in London
Should be interesting..[}:)]

[i]<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/ennew_afp/entertainmentbritainmusicsexpistols_070918120849" target="blank">LONDON (AFP)</a> - Punk legends the Sex Pistols announced Tuesday that they will stage a one-off gig in November to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their controversial album "Never Mind the B*llocks".

The band, who spearheaded the 1970s punk movement in England with singles like "Anarchy in the UK" and "Pretty Vacant", will play London's Brixton Academy on November 8, they said on a music paper's website.

"Maybe it's because we're all Londoners, but there would be no Sex Pistol without dear old London town," colourful frontman John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, said on NME.com.

"See you all at Brixton with proper feelings and proper people all around. From London Bridge to The Rose And Crown, all of Britain is welcome so come on down," he added.

All four surviving members of the band -- Lydon, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock -- will perform at the London gig, they said.

The band's original bass player, Sid Vicious, died after a drug overdose in 1979.

The Sex Pistols were formed in 1975 but split in 1978. They reformed in 1996, and their last concert together was in 2003. Tickets for the November concert will go on sale on Friday, September 21. [/i]

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I always find it fascinating that Matlock has no qualms about joining the band for these reunions. After all, he was jettisoned in favor of Sid Vicious.
I guess money defeats pride

As down as I am on "Professional Punks" I must admit that the 2 Sex Pistols shows I saw in 1996 were well worth the money spent and miles traveled.

No Sid = No Pistols

[quote][i]Originally posted by Yachtingtype[/i]
<br>No Sid = No Pistols
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That I disagree with. I know that Sid was a big part of the mystique, but when you look at the first album, it was only "Bodies" and "Holidays In The Sun" that he played on. The remaining songs had Glen Matlock on bass. Matlock also wrote most of the albums music while Johnny Rotten wrote the lyrics.

Oh well others do it in other threads so I might as well do it in this one.

What do the Sex Pistols have to do with New Wave. They were punk? This is a New Wave forum.

Just trying to keep things on a consistent level.

If I'm wrong, please advise. The forum is appropriate for those genres associated with New Wave, including punk, ska, post-punk, etc.

Yes, but Punk fathered New Wave. Most "New Wave" bands were inspired by Punk to take up joining a band. Without Punk, there wouldn't be Post-Punk. New Wave was a direct backlash against Punk.

And "New Wave" originally meant Punk music.

Did I do that?

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[quote][i]Originally posted by TheMunDial[/i]
<br>Yes, but Punk fathered New Wave. Most "New Wave" bands were inspired by Punk to take up joining a band. Without Punk, there wouldn't be Post-Punk. New Wave was a direct backlash against Punk.

And "New Wave" originally meant Punk music.

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Nicely done...and agreed

[quote][i]Originally posted by Yachtingtype[/i]
<br>No Sid = No Pistols
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Sid sucked in every way. Matlock wrote most of the tunes to begin with.

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[quote][i]Originally posted by TheMunDial[/i]
<br>Yes, but Punk fathered New Wave. Most "New Wave" bands were inspired by Punk to take up joining a band. Without Punk, there wouldn't be Post-Punk. New Wave was a direct backlash against Punk.

And "New Wave" originally meant Punk music.

[/quote]

No it didn't.

Plus you kinda contradicted yourself. Were they inspired by punk or were they a backlash to punk?

The Beatles were inspiring people to join bands 15 years before the 70's brand of punk appeared. Personally I think what most people think of as "New Wave" grew out of the disco scene more than the punk scene. Certanly the New Romantics grew out of the dance/club scene.

[quote][i]Originally posted by gnj1958[/i]
<br>Oh well others do it in other threads so I might as well do it in this one.

What do the Sex Pistols have to do with New Wave. They were punk? This is a New Wave forum.

Just trying to keep things on a consistent level.
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Looks like the 'ol blokes might have <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071109/music_nm/britain_sexpistols_comeback_dc" target="blank">pulled it off</a>[;)]

(Yeah.. I know..shoulda posted this in the concerts forum[:I])

[b]Sex Pistols storm back at reunion gig[/b]

By Mike Collett-White Fri Nov 9, 7:18 AM ET

[i]LONDON (Reuters) - The Sex Pistols snarled and shouted their way through their greatest hits late on Thursday at the start of a brief reunion tour, and early reviews praised the 50-somethings for maintaining the filth and fury.

"Half a century young!" a defiant lead singer John Lydon shouted to thousands of fans at a packed Brixton Academy in south London.

Sporting his trademark spiky orange hair, the performer best known as Johnny Rotten wasted no time in poking fun at the British establishment.

He wore a pheasant shooting outfit, which caused him several wardrobe malfunctions when his trousers kept slipping down, and the patriotic war-time song "There'll Always Be An England" blasted over the speakers before the set began.

The four punk pioneers opened with "Pretty Vacant," and raced through most of their best known numbers in a gig that lasted just over an hour. Predictably it was "God Save The Queen" and "Anarchy In The U.K." that raised the roof.

The capacity crowd united Pistols contemporaries, most of them male and balding, with younger listeners keen to find out what all the fuss was about.

"Anyone under 40 in the crowd?" Lydon joked.

When the Pistols burst on to the music scene in the late 1970s they caused a sensation, and their album "Never Mind the Bollocks ... Here's the Sex Pistols," released 30 years ago, is considered one of the most influential in rock'n'roll history.

ROCKING REVIEW

Early reviews in Friday's newspapers were positive.

The Guardian called the show "hugely entertaining" and the Times described Lydon's performance as "a splenetic, spitting drizzle of gurning invective."

The Independent's critic concluded: "His (Lydon's) songs' unquiet, accusatory lyrics still made themselves heard; and their old fury still burned."

Lydon, 51, was performing alongside guitarist Steve Jones, 52, bass player Glen Matlock and drummer Paul Cook, both 51.

A handful of fans wondered if another comeback tour was really the stuff of genuine rock rebels.

"Maybe I was a bit surprised they'd done this," said Steve, a 46-year-old Londoner. "A one off concert, maybe, but a load of them seems a bit of a sellout."

But generally the boisterous crowd did not care on a night of nostalgia and non-stop noise during which a wide-eyed Lydon engaged them with his trademark expletive-ridden banter.

The band plays four more concerts in Brixton followed by shows in Manchester and Glasgow.

The Sex Pistols formed in 1975, before Matlock, a key songwriter, was ousted in early 1977. He was replaced by Sid Vicious, who could not play bass at all but is considered the band's best-known member.

"Never Mind the Bollocks" topped the British charts in 1977 but Lydon quit the following January during a disastrous American tour. Vicious died of a drug overdose in 1979.

The band first reunited in 1996 for their "Filthy Lucre Tour" and then again in 2002 and 2003. The Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year but refused to show up, sending a rude, handwritten note instead. [/i]

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Reading some forums of actual music fans rather than idiot critics, I sense that this tour is going down exactly as one should have anticipated - badly. Rotten bailed when he knew it was a "rock and roll swindle" back then, and now Lyden can only be jumping back on the swindle to cash in. This is pretty typical of the reviews I've seen:

"Music was bad, crowd was full of utter twats (how anyone can unfurl a swastika flag in any context today leaves me absolutely speechless) and Rotten conducted himself like an absolute wanker. It really was the most vile cocktail of the very, very worst of London night life and low life."

Completely predictable. They may have helped start a great thing, but they're now a footnote that should have just stayed away.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a8874 ... iners.html

The Sex Pistols have been confirmed as one of the headliners for this year's Exit Festival in Serbia.

John Lydon's punk rockers will top the bill at the Petrovaradin fortress in Novi Sad on July 13.

Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy, Billy Idol and the Beastie Boys have all played the annual summer bash in the past.

Exit takes place on July 10-13. Tickets are currently on sale for the event.

The Pistols have already announced they will be one of the headliners at this year's Isle of Wight Festival, and are rumoured to be among the acts playing this year's Glastonbury.




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