Sex Pistols Reload For First North American Tour Since 2003
Never mind that there's no Johnny Rotten, but the Sex Pistols will later this year tour North America for the first time since 2003.
Never mind that there’s no Johnny Rotten, but the Sex Pistols will later this year tour North America for the first time since 2003. The group, which currently finds core members Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock fronted by vocalist Frank Carter, will play their 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols in its entirety.
The trek begins Sept. 16 at Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas — the same venue where the Pistols played a 1978 show that was released today (March 28) as Live in the U.S.A. on limited-edition white vinyl. Tickets go on sale April 4.
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After emerging as U.K. punk figureheads in 1976, the Sex Pistols broke up in spectacular fashion in two years later but reunited, with Rotten, in 1996 for an extensive tour. They’ve been sporadically active in the ensuing years, with their last U.S. show, a Las Vegas one-off, coming in 2008.
Carter joined the band last year and fronted it for nine shows. The newly announced North American dates come in between a hefty international touring schedule for the Pistols, which continues tomorrow in Osaka, Japan.
Rotten, whose real name is John Lydon, has called the reunion a cash grab. “They’re trying to trivialize the whole show to get away with karaoke but in the long term I think you’ll see who has the value and who doesn’t,” he said in an interview last month with Ireland’s The I Paper.
Here are the Sex Pistols’ North American tour dates:
Sept. 16: Dallas (Longhorn Ballroom)
Sept. 23: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Sept. 26: Philadelphia (Fillmore)
Sept. 27: Brooklyn, N.Y. (TBD)
Sept. 30: Montreal (Mtelus)
Oct. 1: Toronto (History)
Oct. 3: Cleveland (Agora Theatre)
Oct. 4: Detroit (Fillmore)
Oct. 7: Minneapolis (Fillmore)
Oct. 10: Denver (Mission Ballroom)
Oct. 13: Seattle (Showbox)
Oct. 15: San Francisco (Warfield)
Oct. 17: Los Angeles (Hollywood Palladium)
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