Search Results for: "Sex Pistols"

News 09.06.15

Virgin Money to launch Sex Pistols credit cards

In case you cared, The Sex Pistols credit cards have an average rate of 18.9% APR. Richard Branson has teamed up with The Sex Pistols to create a series of…

News 30.05.22

Sex Pistols announce commemorative God Save The Queen coin and NFT

…2-5 June, Sex Pistols have announced a nickel-plated Pistol Mint commemorative coin. The piece features artwork by Jamie Reid with his Sex Pistols Union Jack design on one side of…

Long Reads 12.06.15

I Want A Sex Pistols Credit Card

Sex Pistols. The fucking Sex Pistols? On fucking credit cards? For shame. It was a move that internet people were quick to deem “quite annoying,” and “a bit pointless,” with…

Long Reads 02.12.13

John Lydon refuses to settle down

…to be known to the world as Johnny Rotten – passes the test. But McLaren’s big experiment would become much more than a mischievous postmodern prank. The Sex Pistols would…

Long Reads 26.08.16

Reconsidering punk: how women are rewriting punk’s timeline

…fabled moment in 1976 when Sex Pistols had their first gig, you’ll likely believe that 2016 is punk’s fortieth birthday, and that punk is yet another movement that belongs to…

Long Reads 09.08.16

Reflecting on 30 years of Sid & Nancy with Alex Cox

The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen were the original calamitous celebrity couple, and in many people’s eyes, their ill-fated love affair represented the gloriously broken face…

Long Reads 07.04.16

Public Image:
A conversation
with veteran
photographer
Dennis Morris

…Bob Marley, The Sex Pistols, the Stone Roses and Marianne Faithful. Over four decades, Morris’ contribution to concept design and album artwork has influenced the music industry’s approach to artistic…

News 05.04.22

Tributes paid to ‘Queen of Punk’ Pamela Rooke, known as Jordan

…the late British punk rock figure, known for her pioneering fashion sense and for working alongside the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Adam & the Ants and the Sex Pistols. “She…

Opinion 29.03.17

The Tedious Contradictions of John Lydon

…by both the mainstream and underground music press, Lydon is a shameless contradictor of thoughts and arguments. And yet, as the former Sex Pistols singer and the son of working-class…

Long Reads 11.11.16

Tourists are Money: Joe Corré’s £5 million punk bonfire

On 26 November, The Sex Pistol’s seminal debut single Anarchy In The UK will be 40 years old. On this day Joe Corré, who co-founded the lingerie label Agent Provocateur,…

100 Club x Ditto
News 05.02.18

100 Club partner with Fred Perry for retrospective book celebrating 75 years

…the first international punk festival with bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Founder of Ditto Press Ben Freeman says, “I believe…

Aesthetic 21.04.17

Aesthetic: Jason Williamson

…last year in the British Library among other places) is not just dead. According to recent reports, it never lived. Weren’t the Sex Pistols essentially One Direction with bad teeth?…

Album Reviews 10.03.23

Fever Ray: Radical Romantics review

…– while Even It Out features a vocal performance more reminiscent of Sex Pistols or Sandinista!-era The Clash than Fever Ray. Interestingly, this track is one of two collaborations with…

News 18.07.16

Slits guitarist Viv Albertine defaces punk exhibition

…projects in favour of The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Buzzcocks. Albertine crossed out the names of the bands and wrote “The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie & the Banshees….

News 28.05.13

MELVINS

…I? The Sex Pistols, The Ramones? Would I not listen to those? Talking Heads, The Dead Boys? I’ve never had a problem with that. There’s not enough good music to…

News 15.03.16

Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son to burn £5m punk memorabilia

…by the Sex Pistols. Correction: A spokesperson for the ICA has pointed out that the press release we received wrongly associates the forthcoming Dennis Morris: PiL – First Issue to…

News 17.10.17

Documents emerge revealing how Margaret Thatcher was briefed on punk in 1987

…It also describes punk as “a very basic musical style featuring a strange bunch of anti-establishment acts, most famous of which were THE SEX PISTOLS with songs such as GOD…

Discover 17.08.16

Pure Disgust live and breathe DC hardcore

Two years after The Sex Pistols first tore out of London, a vortex of sore throats and flailing limbs began to swirl in Washington, DC and punk got serious. Bad…

© Alex De Mora
Long Reads 12.01.18

Penny Rimbaud: Freedom Fighting

A trip to Dial House takes you through the Essex town of Epping, past a veterinary surgery and an old village hall, down windy country roads and through a number…

News 29.03.17

Documentary on X Ray Spex frontwoman to be released, Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché

…1975 when she was 18. Inspired by a Sex Pistols gig at Hastings Pier, she then went on to form X Ray Spex through an ad in the newspaper calling…

Profiles 10.05.22

Wake Up Punk: Director Nigel Askew on Vivienne Westwood and punk’s rebellious spirit

Long Reads 13.01.17

How KLF Communications Killed the Music Industry (the Easy Way)

Following the announcement that Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are reviving their Justified Ancients of Mu Mu project, Tom Watson traces the subversive legacy of pop’s arch-provocateurs…

The top 100 songs of the decade

From the crypto-commercial nu-pop of SOPHIE to the viral juke of Footcrab, an eerie Fugees sample and an ill-fated cockroach, these are the tracks that defined a decade…

News 06.06.22

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Cera Khin and more to play EXIT Festival 2022

…aimed towards helping people experiencing food poverty worldwide. Over the years, EXIT Festival has hosted the likes of Massive Attack, Cypress Hill, Portishead, Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Sex Pistols, Faithless…

Long Reads 03.11.15

Perspective:
The Right To Offend

London-based label Berceuse Heroique was recently subject to criticism following a tweet from the label’s founder that led to a wide rebuke of the label’s use of extreme imagery. In…

The Genius of Mark E Smith in 20 Songs
Lists 26.01.18

The Genius of Mark E Smith and The Fall in 20 Songs

Mark E Smith, Greater Manchester’s greatest contrarian, has died. So far, the initial shock of Britain’s most antipathetic, fractious frontman’s passing has been met with colossal dread and a perverse…

Drake, Wireless Festival 2018
Live Reviews 09.07.18

Despite the line-up chaos, Wireless still stands as the UK’s most essential rap festival

In the weeks leading up to Wireless, the line-up looked slightly different every time you checked the website. In the end, Cardi B couldn’t make it due to her pregnancy,…

Big Joanie
Long Reads 17.06.19

Big Joanie are taking up space

“For me, it’s always about not being normative, in whatever sense that is,” says drummer Chardine Taylor-Stone when I ask what punk means to her. “I’m not really interested in…

Long Reads 16.03.15

Purifying dancefloors with Contort

Contort is the lovechild of distorted noise artist Samuel Kerridge and his partner in life and crime Hayley Kerridge. It sees a sporadic series of all-day Sunday events hosted in…