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Public Image Ltd is a post punk/ experimental rock band from London, England. The members include John Lydon, Bruce Smith, Lu Edmonds and Scott Firth.

Previously the lead vocalist of the popular punk band the Sex Pistols, Lohn Lydon formed Public Image Ltd after the breakup of the Sex Pistols in 1978. Lydon asked childhood friend, Jah Wobble to form a band together, later adding Kevin Levene and John Walker. By May 1978 the whole band had come together and had started rehearsing together and released a debut single “Public Image.” Despite having a few setbacks with their debut album, they released “Public Image: First Issue,” in December 1978.

In early 1979 Walker left the band, which resulted in a series of drummers to replace him, as well as a series of recorded songs. Public Image Ltd. had a series of shows, including a tour of the United States. In 1980 the band saw the release of “Paris Au Printemps,” which also happened to be the last album that included Jah Wobble (who was never formally replaced). Throughout the 80s the band released five albums, as well as a series of tours and in 1990 they released their first compilation, “Greatest Hits, So Far.” They released their last studio album before taking an extended hiatus in 1992 entitled “That What Is Not.” The band did not reunite until 2009 for a series of shows in the United Kingdom.

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It is always great to see down to Earth public image Ltd. Never light in subject matter or advice. PiL come across as a happy bunch that all get on well, which I feel is a good thing for Mr. Lydon going through all the years his had of fall outs, ego trips, split ups, arguments and court cases.

The voice of Lydon seems to be going more operatic as he gets more and more experienced in what his trying to reach personally I feel. PiL are not a live musical jam anymore of which is a shame, but instead PiL are a well worked out tight unit with timing most essential on prerecorded drum beats and synthesisers, they educate you while they make you dance. Lydon writes as it is in this World today and informs of the things in life that should be well avoided.

Starting off the set with warrior was great in a country like Japan that obviously has a huge history of Warriors and questions people if they are warriors as well. All the songs you would want to hear where played, great live versions of this is not a love song and the flowers of romance. You always get good quality from public image Ltd and that goes for the merchandise sold as well, something always different on offer, this time, narrow long public image ltd towels along with some great t shirts. Public image Ltd keep going strong and keep going along and that is a great, great thing to have around. 10/10 ;)

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Personally I was disappointed with the sound, the set-list and the performance. A couple of tracks got the some audience reaction e.g. "Murderer" ; I think it was so the young & old members of a small turn-out could shout the word "Murderer" like a chant. The biggest difference was the set-list, I admit I'm not a big follower of P.I.L. new output but there are a few good tracks in there. I saw them at the Buckley Tivoli last November (Yes, it did coincide with the big Rugby match) but I'm not interested in Rugby but it could have helped the great atmosphere last year. This May night just didn't feel right and I hate it when they try and do tracks off 'Metal Box' live - they're just dreadful. The venue seems to be a venue for comedians or those copycat bands. The one thing that put me in a bad mood before the gig even started was the merchandise table selling P.I.L's new Hits album signed by the great man (I'm pretty sure he signed them as Johnny Rotten) for the outrageous price of £30, I think I died a little inside.

The actual gig seemed a bit out of sync, highlights (highlights????) were 'Religion' 'Double Trouble','the previously mentioned 'Murderer' and well, well nothing, no support act, etc and even the spiel Lydon sayed seemed scripted

The concert began in darkness. Then the lights were on as Public Image Ltd. took the stage, their logo on a banner hanging from the back wall as the band struck up the first chords of their opener "This Is Not a Love Song." The crowd was already wild, dancing, cheering, and jumping up and down.

John Lydon, clad in pinstripes, took off his suit jacket in the middle of a break from singing amidst cheers from the audience before continuing his unique sing-songy growling and trilling into the microphone. Waving his hands back and forth like a mad scientist, John Lydon, with his shock of bleached hair, was a sight to behold while performing. It was obvious that he was feeling the music entirely and letting it work its way through his limbs as he continued performing the remainder of the concert.

When John asked if the audience was ready in the middle of "This Is Not a Love Song," the audience triumphantly cheered "Yes!" and they weren't lying. It didn't matter what song they played; the audience was hanging on every word, every note of each song they performed. Two of the most extraordinary cheers from the audience came after "Death Disco," and their closer "Open Up."

I’ve loved PIL for about 35 years, and this is their 40 year tour. Johnny Rotten still retains some of the old attitude, but isn’t quite the stage presence he used to be. His band is great, he has chosen well, but his vocal attitudes aren’t near as sharp. They played about a half dozen songs from 1990 on back, my favorites, and many more of their newer ones, which I wasn’t AS familiar with. I would give them about 3 of 5 stars on the PIL performance scale compared to previous shows I had seen in 89 and the early 90s. They kicked butt then! But I have to hand it to him, still rockin at 40 years.

Fantastic gig! As an Englishman living in Japan, this was the first time I've seen Public Image Ltd in Tokyo. Compared to seeing them in London, the audience might have seemed less rowdy. I remember when the lights shone on the audience between songs, John said, "Oh, you are there!". Then, before the encore, the audience started singing. I thought it was lovely when John came back on stage and said, "aaaah, you're singing" and clearly seemed endeared by the acknowledgement of the audience that we absolutely loved the gig.

Really good show from start to finish. John Lydon has an energy and a stage presence unlike many people touring at the moment. Their renditions of old hits are also incredibly catchy and well executed. Credit goes to Lu Edmonds, Scott Firth and Bruce Smith for being such excellent musicians.

Shout out goes to Dreadzone as well, the opening act. I had never heard of them before, but they were great too!

El show en Vorterix fue excelente, la banda estuvo muy profesional y Lydon - para lo que es él - fue muy atento con el público.

Con 13 temas sin fisuras, más 2 en el bis, repasó los hits de su carrera más los nuevos temas. Un muy buen espectáculo que reafirmó la buena impresión que me causó a fin del siglo pasado en el estadio Obras. Pablo Vázquez

The sound could have been better, but it improved as the night went on. What a fantastic gig.

John Lydon is a lyrical genius.

The sound from PIL is unique and incredibly creative. They had a simple but very affective backdrop.

The gig was sold out and it is easy to tell why.

The pubs around the venue was filled with fans from early on the evening.

Obviously, they are ready to end the tour. They need some new material since most of the set (besides Religion, Public Image and Corporate ) sounded the same. Some of the songs were just piss poor like Betty Page and The One. I had to go out side they were so embarrassing. The sound system in Sacramento needs major work.

Great gig. As expected, Johnny was really good and funny. Played lots from his new album and also his Leftfield track ( burn Hollywood). I was a little disappointed they didn't play the good old signature Public Image song, but I still enjoyed the gig very much.

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Glasgow, Hard Rock Cafe, Tuesday, June 21st 2022 SOLD OUT

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Cruel World Festival - Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, USA, Sunday , May 15th 2022

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Leeds, O2 Academy, UK, Tuesday, June 7th 2022 *

Dublin, National Stadium, Ireland, Thursday, June 9th 2022

Belfast, The Limelight, UK, Friday, June 10th 2022 SOLD OUT

Southampton, Engine Rooms, UK, Sunday, June 12th 2022

Frome, Cheese & Grain, UK, Monday, June 13th 2022 SOLD OUT

Brighton, Chalk, UK, Tuesday, June 14th 2022 SOLD OUT

London, O2 Forum Kentish Town, UK, Thursday, June 16th 2022 *

Birmingham, O2 Institute, UK, Friday, June 17th 2022 *

Bristol, O2 Academy, UK, Saturday, June 18th 2022 *

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Brix Smith , formerly of The Fall and The Extricated, will be support at the 8 UK shows marked with an asterisk

NOTE : The Punk It Fest, Helsinki, Finland June 4th 2022 has been rescheduled until next year. Ticket buyers can return tickets to pre-sales outlets.

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PiL Announce North American Tour Dates for 40th Anniversary

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John Lydon is set to bring his long running post-punk group  Public Image Ltd .  back to North America this fall for an a run of 18-dates celebrating the band’s 40th Anniversary. This is part of what has been  billed as “The Public Image Is Rotten” tour, which is also the name of a  new documentary , and career spanning  box set.

The North American leg of the tour follows dates in Europe and the UK, with the first date beginning Oct. 9th in New Orleans, and the last on November 6th in Mexico city. In between there are dates in Montreal and Toronto, along with two stops in San Francisco, and concerts in Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and more.

Tickets for all North American dates go on sale 10 a.m. local time Friday. See  pilofficial.com  for details.

Check out full dates below.

Public Image Ltd. North American tour dates:

• Oct. 9:  Civic Theatre, New Orleans, LA
• Oct. 10:  Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
• Oct. 12:  Black Cat, Washington, D.C.
• Oct. 13:  Asbury Lanes, Asbury Park, NJ
• Oct. 15:  Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY
• Oct. 16:  Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
• Oct. 18:  Club Soda, Montreal, QC
• Oct. 19:  Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON
• Oct. 21:  The Majestic, Detroit, MI
• Oct. 22:  Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
• Oct. 24:  Granada Theatre, Dallas, TX
• Oct. 25:  The Mohawk, Austin, TX
• Oct. 28:  Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
• Oct. 29:  Showbox, Seattle, WA
• Oct. 31:  The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
• Nov. 1:  The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
• Nov. 3:  El Rey, Los Angeles, CA
• Nov. 6:  MX Pepsi Centre, Mexico City, Mexico

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Since announcing the 40th anniversary of Public Image Ltd and a world tour, John Lydon and PiL have extended the tour with 18 additional dates in North America.

Starting this October, the seminal punk band will touch down in New Orleans at the Civic Theatre, continuing their celebration of 40 years as a band and the forthcoming career-spanning box set, The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From the Heart) out 20 July.

Led by the former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon (née Johnny Rotten), the punk godfather will be joined by multi-instrumentalist/guitarist Lu Edmonds, bass player Scott Firth and drummer Bruce Smith.

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The group is currently on tour in Europe, having played in Osaka in Japan and will be heading to Prague in the Czech Republic. The North American tour sees them travel up the East Coast including a date in Montreal before wrapping up the tour on the West Coast in November.

The band is also the subject of a new documentary, The Public Image Is Rotten , that’s currently in theatres across the UK and Europe before it makes its North American premiere on 14 September at New York City’s Metrograph. The film will be heading to the rest of North America throughout October and November.

Tickets for the North American leg of the tour go on sale this Friday, 13 July at the band’s official site.

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Public Image Ltd ‘The Public Image Is Rotten’ tour

13 July | Prague, Czech Republic – Lucerna 15 July| Jarocin, Poland – Jarocin Festival 28 July| Vasto, Italy – Siren Festival 29 July| A Cielo Aperto, Italy – Cesena 05 August| Blackpool, England – Rebellion Festival 19 August| Sedgefield, England – Hardwick Festival 23 August| Vilar de Mouros, Portugal – Festival Vilar de Mouros 25 August| Bangor, Northern Ireland – Open House Festival 26 August| Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street 28 August| Iverness, Scotland – The Ironworks 29 August| Aberdeen, Scotland – The Assembly 31 August| Dundee, Scotland – The Church 01 September| Bingley, England – Bingley Music Live 09 October| New Orleans, LA – The Civic Theatre 10 October| Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse 12 October| Washington, DC – Black Cat 13 October| Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Lanes 15 October| Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel 16 October| Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer 17 October| Montreal, Quebec – Club Soda 19 October| Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace 21 October| Detroit, MI – The Majestic 22 October| Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall 24 October| Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre 25 October| Austin, TX – The Mohawk 28 Octover| Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 20 October| Seattle, WA – Showbox 31 October| San Francisco, CA – The Chapel 01 November| San Francisco, CA – The Chapel 03 November| Los Angeles, CA – El Rey 06 November| Mexico City, Mexico – Pepsi Center

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Public Image Ltd. Announce First U.S. Tour in 18 Years

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It’s been 18 long years since John Lydon and his Public Image Ltd. outfit have toured the United States, but ever since Coachella’s organizers announced the band would performing on the festival’s opening night, we’ve had our fingers crossed that the one-off show would turn into a full-fledged tour of North America (We were begging for a PiL reunion back in ’08.) Now we finally have good news: today Public Image Ltd. revealed a 17-date trek that will take them from California to New York with a dozen stops in between.

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As Rolling Stone previously reported, Lydon and Public Image Ltd. reunited late last year for a series of shows in the U.K., and as evidenced by the performance of “Rise” up top, Lydon still sounds great tearing through material from Album and First Issue . Those U.K. shows marked PiL’s first concerts in 17 years, when the band toured in support of their last album, 1992’s That What Is Not . While the days of guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble rocking with PiL have passed, the current lineup includes drummer Bruce Smith and guitarist Lu Simmonds, both PiL vets dating back to 1986, and new bassist Scott Frith.

Lydon and company promise more U.S. dates will be announced in the near future, so don’t despair if your local market isn’t on the current itinerary:

Public Image Ltd. Apr. 16 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Apr. 17 – San Francisco, CA @ Grand Ballroom Apr. 20 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox at The Market Apr. 21 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom Apr. 23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot Apr. 24 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre Apr. 26 – Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theatre May 2 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues May 4 – Boston, MA @ Royale Boston May 5 – Boston, MA @ Royale Boston May 7 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus May 8 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre L’Olympia de Montreal May 11 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live May 12 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club May 14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Zoo May 15 – Atlantic City, NJ @ The Borgata Music Box May 18 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5

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Public Image Ltd @ O2 Institute, Birmingham – 17 June 2022

John Lydon’s Public Image Ltd are back after touring to sell-out audiences in 2018, celebrating PiL’s 40th anniversary and the release of The Public Image Is Rotten . 

As his colleagues line-up to the rear of the stage, the ever charismatic Lydon receives a warm Birmingham Institute welcome. With a half sneer, half smile, preparing lyric sheets on a lectern, he fronts the longest running PiL line-up since reactivation in 2009. His audience, the majority with at least some punk rebellion still running through their veins, watch on in awe.

For three songs I’m up close to the icon formerly known as Johnny Rotten. With arms spread, bellowing, contorting and raging through ‘Religion II’, it’s a sight to behold and an experience to savour. Still with that unique, eerie, anti-singing vocal, he sounds ferocious and unwavering. So what if he’s renounced the idea of anarchy; and so what if he’s decked out in one of those Cuban tour shirts you can pick-up for seventy quid; the man is a legend and a natural born entertainer.

Following on with ‘Memories’ and ‘The Body’. Scott Firth’s heavy bass and Lou Edmonds experimental guitar add to the dark, abstract sound of PiL.with Lydon at the heart of the performance. The set moves on to include a range of material, from 1989’s motivational mantra ‘Warrior’, to the 2015 single and love song for Nora, ‘The One’.

The bass line for ‘Death Disco’ threatens to crumble the Institute. From the classic 1979 album ‘Metal Box’ it’s an ode to the passing of Lydon’s mother. A raw and passionate affair, it appears to have every soul on the floor dancing; be it with arms in the air, or just a spot of shoegazing.

For many, John Lydon is a genius who speaks the absolute truth. For others he’s an attention seeker and shameless contradictor. Whatever the view, his cut-throat reference to Danny Boyle and the biopic series ‘Pistol’ comes and goes with no surprise tonight. More of a shock is a security guard receiving his wrath, when he appears to be trying to assist somebody in the crowd. Clearly John had seen something that wasn’t obvious to those of us in the balcony.

As the show enters its final stages we are treated to ‘This Is Not a Love Song’, that oh-so irritating, cheeky, yet brilliant 1983 hit. Then from 1978 the outstanding post-Pistols, debut single ‘Public Image’. My highlight of the night and no doubt for many others. Firth and Edmonds emulating the swirling, hypnotic simplicity of Wobble and Levene, with Lydon’s raw, rotten vocal floating over the top. The Birmingham audience lap it up, even if it does knock the stuffing out of you to realise it was released 44 years ago.

An encore of ‘Shoom’ and the 1983 Leftfield collaboration ‘Open Up’ precede the almighty ‘Rise’. The crowd know every word and bullet point the “I could be wrong, I could be right” and “May the road rise with you” sections, before Lydon has them whipped up for the final “Anger is an energy”. Graciously he bathes in the acknowledgement.

Tonight I’ve witnessed a captivating and powerful performance, which allows me to truly understand the general consensus of critics and peers alike, that PiL are one of the most influential bands of all time. With suggestion that new material is in the pipeline, they will continue to challenge and thrive for sure.

Review & Photography: Steve Johnston

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• Apr 13 1992 Hara Arena Dayton, OH, USA Add time Add time
• Apr 14 1992 The International Centre Mississauga, ON, Canada Add time Add time
• Apr 16 1992 Gosman Sports and Convocation Center This Setlist Waltham, MA, USA Add time Add time
• Apr 17 1992 Tower Theatre Upper Darby, PA, USA Add time Add time
• Apr 18 1992 Hammerjacks Baltimore, MD, USA Add time Add time

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