John Lydon is “pissed” about sex pistols on tour with Frank Carter
The former singer of the Sex Pistols John Lydon revealed that he had “pissed” when he learned that his former companions of the historic British punk band met by calling in his place behind the Frank Carter microphone. Last year Glen Matlock, Paul Cook and Steve Jones joined the forces with the frontman of the Rattlesnakes for three concerts for the Bush Hall in London, and then undertake a tour in the United Kingdom and in Europe (with a date in Italy at the Ama Music Festival last August), as well as announcing other dates for 2025.
The absence of Lydon to the Reunion is due to his relationship aimed at the other components still in life of the sex pistols, after years of conflicts and even a legal cause in 2021, which saw him accused by his former bandmates for his disagree on the inclusion of the group’s music in the biographical series “Pistol “ by Danny Boyle, whom he defined as “little regard to reality”. Now, in a new interview for “The I Paper”, regarding the collaboration of sex pistols with Frank Carter, John Lydon (Aka Johnny Rotten) said:
“When I heard for the first time that the sex pistols were making a tour this year without me, I pissed off I annoyed me. I thought immediately: ‘They are about to destroy everything that was good in pistols by eliminating the point and The purpose of everything ‘. Sold my soul to make money.
He added: “Like Nancy Reagan, I have always found it easy to say ‘no’. If something challenges your heart, your soul, your mind and your sense of purity about what is right and wrong in the world, then just say No.
In another interview with Classic Album Review, taken from “Blabbermouth”, when he was asked if he thought that the spirit of sex pistols was absent now that the band is playing without him, Lydon replied: “I wrote those fuck of songs, no? I gave them the image. Idol is just a sort of karaoke, after all. “
He continued: “I would like to be embarrassed by the quality of the writing of songs on their part. They had enough time to do it, it’s not true? But no. They profess their hatred for me, but they can’t live without me. I am the punishment that continues to give.
John Lydon’s statements come after those of Steve Jones, who recently revealed to the “Rockonteurs” podcast not to speak with the singer for almost two decades.
“I haven’t been talking to him for years,” said the guitarist: “The last time I talked to him was in 2008. We did 30 shows around Europe. We did a lot of festivals – Japan, Australia – e We ended up at the Hammersmith Odeon (now Hammersmith Apollo), and then we had another show in the Basque country, and just. Too much, too much, not done enough “. When he was then asked why he returned on tour, Jones replied: “This time it is different. There is a different atmosphere. It’s night and day”. Steve Jones then explained that Carter, invited to join the band because he knew Matlock’s son, “does not try to be John” and he was always “more comfortable” with the group as they continue to play together. Speaking of the “partial reunion” of the sex pistols, Jones added: “We had the idea of making all the songs of the pistols with a different singer, because with John it could no longer happen”.
