7th February
Who Killed Bill? The Sex Pistols On The News DVD. God Save The Sex Pistols advance review.
6th February
View Channel 4's news item on the alternative Haiti single, including behind the scenes...
View Steve Jones and The Hellfire Canyon Club as they take to their motorbikes...
5th February
4th February
The Sun today reports on the alternative Haiti fund raising single, I Put a Spell on You, featurinng Glen Matlock, Shane MacGowen and friends. thesun.co.uk
We Love 77 is an exhibition featuring 77 paintings of the most iconic punk bands, including, of course, the Sex Pistols. It runs from 20 Feb - 21 March, open daily 12-6pm, at WW Gallery pop-up venue,
The Merchant's Hall, 46 Essex Road, London, N1 8LN (entrance on Packington Street).
The March issue of Uncut has a 4 page feature on the Pistols 1976 Anarchy Tour.
3rd February
Glen Matlock is shooting over to Canada to perform his acoustic set this coming weekend:
Thursday February 4th - L3 Night Club, 6 James Street, St. Catharines, with the Sadies
Friday February 5th - Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan Street, Guelph, with the Sadies
Saturday February 6th - Lounge @ the London Music Hall, 178 Dundas Street, London, with the Sadies
Sunday, Feb 7th - This Ain't Hollywood, Hamilton, Onatario.
Iggy Pop - California Hitch-Hike is the title of a forthcoming CD on the Easy Action label. Recorded at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco in 1979 it features Glen Matlock and Brian James. Release date: March 10.
easyaction.co.uk
2nd February
30 years ago today, punks gathered in London for a march to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Sid Vicious. Newspaper reports at the time claimed everything passed off peacefully. Gus Nicholson was there and gives his first hand account exclusively for God Save The Sex Pistols.
Read Gus' story.
1st February
Glen Matlock joined Mick Jones,
Shane MacGowan, Chrissie Hynde, Bobby Gillespie and others on 29th January to record a version of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song I Put a Spell on You. The proceeds will go towards the relief effort in Haiti.
31st January
Glen Matlock to support the Buzzcocks at Buxton Opera House on 15th February. Glen will be performing his acoustic set. buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
In an interview in the News Of The World today, Sex Pistols director Julien Temple says he loves the Sid Vicious My Way / Simon Cowell YouTube mash-up. newsoftheworld.co.uk.
Sid Vicious auditions for the X Factor was created by God Save The Sex Pistols Forum member KarelBata. View here.
Happy birthday John Lydon, born on this day in 1956.
30th January
Public Image Limited to play the Benicàssim International Festival, Spain, on Saturday July 17th. benicassimfestival.co.uk
29th January
| Who Killed Bill? - The Sex Pistols On The News. DVD March 22nd |
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Odeon Entertainment have been in touch about the forthcoming DVD, Who Killed Bill? The Sex Pistols On The News. The release features "exclusive content from ITN."
So what's on it?
Odeon kindly sent a trailer to view and it looks superb. With the tag line "from 1976 to the present day" it does exactly that. It includes a huge range of material: LWT 76, John / Janet Street Porter 78 interview, Sid Nationwide 78, PiL on Check It Out, various Filthy Lucre 96 interviews including 100 Club, Pistols at the Palace garden interview, Guitar Hero 3 conference, John on London Tonight 07, and of course Bill Grundy. |
28th January
Sham Pistols - Natural Born Killer. God Save The Sex Pistols review of the new vinyl album - featuring four never before released studio tracks; unheard for over 30 years.
27th January
| Sham Pistols - Natural Born Killer (vinyl LP) |
Studio Side:
Natural Born Killer
You & Me
Trainspotter
Individual
(Manor Studios June 79)
Live Side:
Pretty Vacant
White Riot
If The Kids Are United
What Have We Got
(Glasgow Apollo June 79)
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| 4 never before released studio tracks from the band that was destined never to be. So what did we miss? Review coming tomorrow. |
25th January
THE LOOK has exclusive images from the video shoot for Jah Wobble's new single Blow Up.
24th January
Sundance interview with Steve Jones. He discusses Jonesy's Jukebox, ideas for a solo record, the possibility of further Pistols reunions, and the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. hitfix.com
22nd January
Rich Kids. A further set of 30 superb photographs from this historic night have been submitted to the site by Alison McBride. (This brings the total number of exclusive pictures from the event to 85).
God Save The Sex Pistols contributor Géant-Vert has a four page article on PiL published in the latest issue (510) of top French music monthly, Rock & Folk.
20th January
Public Image Limited to play the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, on Friday April 16th at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. Tickets for the event go on sale Friday, 22nd January. billboard.com/
Steve Jones performs EMI with The Hotrats on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 18th January youtube.com/ [thanks KGuitar]
(Note: Supergrass Off-Shoot, The Hot Rats, have their album Turn Ons (Fat Possum) released this week. It includes their take on EMI).
Steve was also interviewed by Craig Ferguson. youtube.com/
The Vince Neil Solo Band performed the Sex Pistols' No Feelings on 16th January in West Palm Beach, Florida. The song will be featured on his upcoming solo CD which is expected to be released in April this year. motleycruestore.com/
17th January
Rich Kids 7th Jan 2010. More excellent photographs from the evening. Submitted to the site by Mark Clacy and Steve Miller.
Today's Mail On Sunday has a positive review of the Rich Kids show.
16th January
Rich Kids 7th Jan 2010. YouTube. New upload. All Or Nothing encore. [thanks Steve Miller]
13th January
Rich Kids Gig Photographs. Set of 20 professional photographs submitted to the site by Peter Stevens.
12th January
Punk Forever & Leaving The Twentieth Century. Two exhibitions are running from 16th January - 20th February at Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, Bangor, Wales. Punk Forever offers a rare opportunity to see Gerrion Jones' private collection of images by Jamie Reid, Jimmy Cauty, Billy Childish and others that highlight how punk has evolved since 1976. Leaving The Twentieth Century features selected photographs by Peter Telfer. Admission free. Tel: 01248 353 368.
punkforever.co.uk
Sham/Pistols - Natural Born Killers is a forthcoming unofficial vinyl album, which is reported to include - for the first time ever - unreleased studio recordings from 1979 by the aborted group. The short lived venture brought together Steve Jones, Paul Cook plus Jimmy Pursey and Dave Treganna from Sham 69. The album is also understood to include the encore from the Sham 69 show at Glasgow Apollo on June 29th 1979. (Steve and Paul joined Sham for the encore: Pretty Vacant, White Riot, If The Kids Are United, finishing with What Have We Got).
Although the encore has seen the light of day more than once before, the studio tracks have not. This release is awaited with interest.
10th January
Rich Kids - Hung On You. The morning after. Glen Matlock's post-gig reflections.
Rich Kids 7th January 2010 on YouTube.
A selection: Strange One / Hung on You / Here Comes The Nice / Rich Kids / Ghosts of Princes in Towers / Only Arsenic / All or Nothing / Rich Kids encore [thanks Mark Clacy]
Rich Kids encore [thanks Steve Miller]
9th January
Rich Kids - Hung On You. The God Save The Sex Pistols Concert Review, plus pictures.
Rich Kids: The Guardian's 4 star review.
Eddie Lock has contacted the site with the following information: "WARNING:
Sex Pistols collectors NOT TO BUY the reclaimed Sex Pistols/artificial Ltd
edition of 10 prints recently advertised on ebay. Although these are signed
by Jamie Reid, they are NOT SANCTIONED by the SEX PISTOLS and are a serious
violation of contract by the artist and a MAJOR immoral mistake by the
gallery!
The Sex Pistols and management are fully aware of this. "
8th January
Just got back from the historic Rich Kids gig last night. Phenomenal. Plenty to come from the show on God Save The Sex Pistols over the next few days. The band were featured on London Tonight (ITV) prior to the gig last night - I alerted Twitter subscribers. Phil
YouTube: Second encore. Rich Kids. Version one youtube.com Version two youtube.com [thanks Erik & Mark]
7th January
Rich Kids live tonight! The band are all present and correct and ready to rock despite the weather. It's going to be the warmest place in London tonight!
6th January
Glen Matlock: Why The Rich Kids Are Back. Glen told Classic Rock magazine: "It’s because our guitarist Steve New is suffering from terminal cancer..... So we want to try and raise some money for his family. I’d been thinking about doing something like this for a while, and then I spoke to Midge Ure (vocals) recently, and it went from there.”
The band, regarded as forerunners of late 70s power-pop music, will reunite for the first time since they officially split in 1978, with Rusty Egan returning on drums. “It’s amazing, but even though we’ve not played together for over 30 years, the chemistry is still there,” enthuses Matlock. “Will we take this further? Right now I don’t know. There’s talk of filming and recording the gig, plus we might think about something new… but let’s get the gig out of the way first." classicrockmagazine.com
5th January
Footage from the Ducati All-Stars (featuring Steve Jones) gig in Hollywood on 2nd January is available on YouTube. youtube.com [thanks Erik Pettersson]
4th January
The Facebook group set up with the aim of getting God Save The Queen to No.1 on the Queen's official birthday in June now has 20,000 members http://www.facebook.com/
2nd January
Rich Kids - rare single sleeves. With the return of the Rich Kids next week, it's time to look back to 1978.
1st January
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The Guardian - F&M playlist. "Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn off..... Public Image Limited Religion II. PiL's pre-Christmas shows proved that John Lydon should not be remembered either as panto punk or eccentric butter salesman, but as arguably Britain's greatest musical adventurer of the last 30 years. By the time this song closed the set at stomach-churning volume, one could only wonder at the extraordinary severity and extremity of his vision. Michael Hann."
guardian.co.uk/music
30th December
Review of the Year Editorial.
More Pistols bootleg vinyl has surfaced: A colour vinyl variation on the famous Italian Never Mind The Bollocks pressing which had the word "Punk" on the front of the sleeve.
28th December
Following on from the rave reviews of the PiL live shows, if you wish to hear Metal Box sounding as good as ever, try the new Virgin CD re-release. To replicate the original album, it's been spread across 3 discs, includes a reproduction of the original insert, and has been remastered for this new release.
Buy Metal Box (Vinyl Replica Edition)
27th December
Another review (plus pictures) of PiL in Glasgow. Submitted to the site by Steven Black. "PiL have in my eyes proven the
doubters wrong with excellent live shows throughout the country."
Paul Cook's Man Raze are currently running a podcast series on manraze.com with live videos.
26th December
Exclusive pictures from PiL's Camden show on 22 December. Submitted to the site by Mark Clacy.
John Lydon - A Culture Show Special. BBC4 Tuesday 5th January 22.30-23.00. 'Discussing his youth and love of Shakespeare and Mozart' [thanks Stu]
24th December
HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all contributors and visitors to God Save The Sex Pistols.
22nd December
Public Image Limted 2009. Manchester & Beyond. The God Save The Sex Pistols Critique.
Exclusive pictures from last night's PiL Brixton show. Submitted to the site by Mark Clacy.
"Punk is officially dead, for a second time.
So says John Lydon who insists the Sex Pistols will not make any more music together.
The reunited punk legends tore up the live scene throughout 2008 but now Johnny Rotten is keen to focus on his other band – Public Image Ltd." dailystar.co.uk
Ducati All-Stars, a group of "talented musicians and Ducati enthusiasts", will "hammer out 30 years of rock" at the Roxy Theatre on Sunset Boulevard, 9009 West Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, California on Saturday, January 2, 2010. The band, which will be headed up by Billy Morrison of Camp Freddy, will also include Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) and Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) on guitar, Chris Wyse (The Cult) on bass, Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin) on drums, and Donovan Leitch, Franky Perez (Slash, Scars on Broadway) and Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) on vocals. facebook.com/ducatiusa
21st December
PiL Manchester review. Submitted to the site by Man Alive.
Two Sex Pistols Facebook campaigns have been launched in the wake of the Rage Against The Machine number one success.
God Save The Queen: No.1 on the Queen's official birthday on 7th June 2010.
http://www.facebook.com/
Anarchy In The UK: Make it the last No. 1 of the decade. http://www.facebook.com
20th December
PiL pictured in Manchester last night. Photos submitted to the site by Man Alive.
PiL pictured in Leeds. A second set of stunning pictures has been submitted to the site by Richard Palmer and Claude of Leeds.
PiL Glasgow review submitted to the site by John Murphy.
PiL on You Tube. Public Image in Glasgow.
18th December
Exclusive set of pictures from PiL's show in Leeds. Submitted to the site by Kenny the PiL Collector.
PiL on YouTube. Another excellent video: Rise in Birmingham. [thanks Mark Innes]
The Rich Kids Reunion: Midge Ure Speaks! mojo4music.com
January 2010 issue of Record Collector has Jah Wobble interview in which he talks about PiL, the Sex Pistols, and his solo work. Also includes an article on an unscreened Malcolm McLaren documentary, The Great Hollywood Swindle, due to be aired on 16 August 85, but cancelled due to a technicians strike. recordcollectormag.com/
17th December
Exclusive review of last night's PiL show in Leeds by Ian Fox. Plus Claude gets to show John his tattoo.
PiL on YouTube. A number of clips from this week have appeared.
This one from Leeds is particularly good: Tie Me To The Length Of That.
16th December
Last night's opening PiL show reviewed by Jon Good, Martin Doubtfire, Wayne Spencer and Jon Edwards exclusively for God Save The Sex Pistols.
All four reviews are well worth a read... "This is perhaps the best PIL there has been..."
Set List:
Public Image /
Careering
/ This Is Not a Love Song
/ Poptones
/ Albatross
/ Tie Me To The Length Of That
/ The Suit
/ Death Disco
/ Four Enclosed Walls
/ Flowers of Romance
/ Psychopath
/ Disappointed / Warrior
/ USLS 1
/ Banging The Door
/ Chant
/ Bags
/ Memories
/ Annalisa
/ Religion
/ Encore :
Sun
/ Rise
/ Open Up [Thanks Wayne Spencer]
Press Reviews: birminghammail.net
independent.co.uk
Interview: scotsman.com
15th December
14th December
13th December
Treat yourself to a Sex Pistols 2010 Calendar
12th December
Public Image Limited Gig Reviews. Fancy reviewing a PiL show for God Save The Sex Pistols?
If you'd like to have your review read by 1000s of other fans, then get in touch here: Pil Reviews
John Lydon is on Sky News this morning. Watch John and PiL at Sky News Online:" 'Never Mind The X Factor - It's A Mug's Game.' Former Sex Pistols star Johnny Rotten has dismissed the X Factor as a "mug's paradise. "
11th December
John Lydon:" 'I'm not a leader, bully or dictator.' Agitator, innovator, naturist: more than thirty years after crashing into the public sphere, John Lydon is still as hard to define as ever. " independent.co.uk
10th December
New bootleg vinyl has surfaced: French 7" Anarchy In The UK on the Barclay label has appeared on pink vinyl [thanks Tony]
9th December
Paul Cook's Man-Raze played an invite only gig for 100 friends, family and competition winners, last night The Met Bar, Park Lane, London, to celebrate guitarist Phil Collen's 52nd birthday. After the 35 minute set which included a rendition of Happy Birthday, Paul's daughter Hollie DJ'd for a couple of hours.
Don't forget to check iamrogue.pgwexperience.com/live, the new home of Jonesy's Jukebox, for new Steve Jones video and audio content.
7th December
Extra NYC Glen Matlock date added: December 11th, Nublu, East Village, NYC.
Support: Jesse Yusef Murphy.
5th December
Steve Jones is back on air, on line and on video.
In the first all new Jonesy's Jukebox, Steve interviews Tobey Maguire. The show has returned on producer Ryan Kavanaugh’s Web site, iamrogue.com.
Steve plans to air “Jonesy's Jukebox” for an hour each weekday in a streaming video format, with a mixture of music and interviews. He says he is working on bringing the show back to the broadcast airwaves too. Watch Steve's first intervew here. iamrogue.pgwexperience.com/live
Rich Kids ticket rush! Half the tickets have already been snapped up! If you are planning on coming to the show, get your tickets now. livenation.co.uk
4th December
John Lydon is a guest on tonight's The One Show, BBC1, 7PM. It will be available on BBC iPlayer for one week. bbc.co.uk/programmes/
3rd December
Rich Kids Tickets Pre-Sale links:
ticketmaster.co.uk/promo
livenation.co.uk/event/9692/rich-kids-tickets
Public Image Limited reminder. PiL are on BBC2 tonight. The Culture Show, 7 - 8PM (repeat 11.20PM). bbc.co.uk/programmes
CD re-releases of both Metal Box (Vinyl Replica Edition)
and Plastic Box
are available to pre-order.
2nd December
RICH KIDS TICKETS ANNOUNCEMENT. 02 Academy Islington. Thursday 7th Jan '10.
Tickets go on sale Friday 4th December at 9am, priced at £17.50 and
can be booked through www.livenation.co.uk (all tickets subject to a booking fee).
Watch Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in
Towers.
1st December
Public Image Limited - "Alife 2009 - exclusive live albums from one of the most influential bands of a generation!"
John Lydon was on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Listen here news.bbc.co.uk/today/ [thanks Graham]
