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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Michael Hann

Sex Pistols review, Bush Hall: No John Lydon, but the Seventies icons are still plenty punk without him

Pistols Frank Carter Steve Jones Bush Hall Glen Matlock Paul Cook
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Tonight’s billing suggests m’learned friends have been involved, as the Sex Pistols take the stage without one pistol in particular. Recent years have seen the Seventies punk icons divided: on the one hand John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, and on the other, the three here tonight, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook. Tensions came to a head recently after Lydon objected to the band making a TV series with Danny Boyle and ended up going to court in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the band’s music from being used in it.

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