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Live Review: Sex Pistols / The Undertones / Panic Shack – The Piece Hall, Halifax 11.07.2024

There was a sense that this was more than just another summer concert in Halifax. Three generations of punk collided in the spectacular surroundings of The Piece Hall, with rising…

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News: Public Image Ltd announce long-awaited return to Australia and New Zealand

Public Image Ltd are heading back to Australia and New Zealand with This Is Not… The Final PiL Tour, their first run down under in over a decade and their first New…

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Live Gallery: ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’, The Sex Pistols are in Australia Performing With Frank Carter – Hordern Pavilion, Eora Nation/Sydney 08.04.25

It’s wild, really – the Sex Pistols only ever released one official studio album. Just one. But what a detonation it was. Nearly fifty years later, the blast radius is…

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Live Review – The Professionals + Desperate Measures. Newcastle Cluny, 19.10.21.

Two bands with members that, in one combo or another, have been stalwarts of the punk scene for 40+ years pretty much guarantees that tonight’s gig was going to be…

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News: The Professionals (including Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook) embark on UK Tour

The Professionals, featuring Paul Cook from Sex Pistols, are heading out on tour across the UK for several weeks throughout October 2021. The dates follow the emancipation of their new…

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Playlist: John Peel Show 10.12.1976 The Punk Special

It has been viewed, especially in retrospect, as something of a watershed moment – an incoming of punk rock, a realisation that John Peel really did and could move with…

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Classic Album: Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols

While no one would ever dare question Sex Pistols’ cultural impact, such was Malcolm Mclaren’s obsession with publicity stunts, that by the time Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex…

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