Sex Pistols - UK Tour

The Sex Pistols played gigs during the last week at the fabled Brixton Academy, and here's a smattering of reviews.

BBC News wrote:
"You could take your gran, if she didn't mind the swearing. After all, much of the crowd are grandparents themselves. "Half a century young!", Lydon sneers, his sarcasm directed at himself as much as the balding forty-and-fiftysomething pates that shine whenever the lights fall on the audience. The Sex Pistols are not, after all, an act who could ever grow old gracefully. The shock tactics, the wilful rejection of musical virtuosity, were a breath of fresh air in 1977."

Reuters wrote:
"At Brixton Academy in south London on Thursday John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook took us through the limited back catalogue of Pistols hits, and very entertaining it was too. Lydon growled and snarled and screamed and swore, and the crowd of mainly balding 40- and 50-something men were taken back on a wave of nostalgia to the wild old days when Pistols and punk swept all before them. A few in the crowd chanted “You fat bastard!” at the slightly portly punk pioneer, and he took it all in good humour."

Canada's National Post London correspondent wrote:
"Johnny Rotten repeatedly forgot the words to his songs. He and his Sex Pistols didn't play anything new. Now fiftysomethings, the punk rock founders all looked, well, decidedly old. But for the 5,000 well-lubricated punk fans jammed into London's Brixton Academy for a sold-out show Thursday night, none of that particularly mattered."

Here's video of "God Save the Queen" from one of those nights.