Robert Peston and Ed Balls perform with new band Centrist Dad The ITV political editor sang songs by The Sex Pistols, Blondie and The Clash Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2023
Siouxsie review – more Greek than goth goddess Ten years after her last London gig, the former Banshees frontwoman shows she’s not just a punk survivor, with a wide-ranging, glamour-heavy set The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2023
Jamie Reid: the defiant punk art of the man behind the Sex Pistols' iconic imagery The death of graphic designer and activist Jamie Reid earlier this month was a huge loss for both the design community and the political left. Right until his death, Reid made incendiary works that incessantly attacked the political status quo. The Conversation · Aug 15, 2023
Forget Manchester: Leeds was the REAL home of 80s alternative music Often derided as ‘Goth City’, Leeds defined the independent music scene of the 80s from post-punk to weird-pop and dark electronica. No Leeds, no Trent Reznor Louder · Aug 14, 2023
Jamie Reid obituary Artist whose unmistakable record sleeve designs contributed to the tumultuous impact of the Sex Pistols in the 1970s The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2023
U.S. health care has been in crisis since Nixon–but two economists may have found a way to radically disrupt it U.S. health care is an unfixable economic system, at least in its current configuration. Fortune · Aug 10, 2023
Mangal 2: Celebrity diners don’t do anything for our Google rating Lily Allen is a fan, but it’s not enough for a five star rating Evening Standard · Aug 10, 2023
Jamie Reid’s Sex Pistols artwork was a glorious assault on authority Taking dada and adding a snotty British energy, the late artist gave punk its sharp edges and revolutionary force – and by attacking Putin, carried it into the present The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2023
Jamie Reid, the artist who designed covers for Sex Pistols’ albums, dies aged 76 Reid, known to many for his ‘God Save the Queen’ artwork, helped curate the aesthetic of the punk rock era with his ransom note style The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2023
In memoriam: Sex Pistols album artist Jamie Reid (1947 – 2023) Jamie Reid was best known for his bold album artwork for the Sex Pistols Wallpaper · Aug 9, 2023
OPINION - Farewell Jamie Reid, punk visionary who captured the spirit of generation Jamie Reid, who has just died at the age of 76, was as important to London as Big Ben or Guy Fawkes. As influential as Martin Amis or John Betjeman. His work was as iconic as any London portrait by Monet, Pissarro or Canaletto. This Croydon-born boy was a colossal… Evening Standard · Aug 9, 2023
Jamie Reid the artist who designed covers for Sex Pistols’ albums dies Reid, 76, helped curate the aesthetic of the punk rock era with his ransom note style. The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2023
Jamie Reid obituary: the Sex Pistols collaborator who defined the punk aesthetic The British artist and designer blazed a trail with his political, contemporary and confrontational work Evening Standard · Aug 9, 2023
“Jimmy Page and Jim Sullivan were getting a lot of work, but I was always getting plenty of calls – and that increased after I did the Jack Bruce sessions”: The confessions of session pro Chris Spedding The British session ace on being asked to audition for the Rolling Stones, producing the Sex Pistols’ early demos and recording Robert Gordon’s final album Guitar World · Jul 18, 2023
Louder · Jul 2, 2023 “Sir, are you married?”: the unlikely connection between Queen’s Brian May and punk band X-Ray Spex Queen guitarist Brian May crossed paths with a punk icon years before either was famous
Louder · Jun 29, 2023 "Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk, punk and more punk
Evening Standard · Jun 26, 2023 OPINION - Enjoy U2 and Dog Day’s punks while you can, pop culture is on its way out This September, U2 start their long-awaited residency at the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas, a fully immersive visual and sonic experience that will — yet again — move the dial on live performance. More than a decade ago they reinvented the stadium experience with their 360 tour, while this new…
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 Sex Pistols turned down Olympics performance because organisers wanted to censor songs The Sex Pistols turned down an invitation to perform at the Olympics’ opening ceremony because the organisers wanted to censor one of their most famous songs, John Lydon has revealed.
Guitar World · Jun 19, 2023 Guy Pratt: “I always thought that the second I walked out the studio, the producer would be on the phone to Pino Palladino” The session stalwart discusses his career as a sideman, gigging with Pink Floyd, and chatting to Noel Gallagher and Suzi Quatro for his music podcast, The Rockonteurs
Louder · Jun 15, 2023 The world nearly got a supergroup featuring members of the Sex Pistols, Blondie and the Bay City Rollers Blondie’s drummer, the ex-Sex Pistols bassist, the Bay City Rollers’ guitarist and Paul Weller nearly made up punk’s weirdest supergroup
Louder · Jun 15, 2023 “We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread
The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2023 Never mind the racket. I was behind the bar for one of the first Sex Pistols gigs Brief letters: Johnny Rotten luck | Tipping in Italy | Satanic autocorrect | Snollygosters everywhere | Woke in Woking
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023 Anarchy in High Wycombe! The real story of the Sex Pistols’ earliest gigs The punk band are famous for culture-changing gigs in Manchester and London, but what about ones in Keighley and Dunstable? Attendees at their first UK tour remember the protests, raw power – and cider-drinking hippies
The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2023 Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock at 40: the album that foretold today’s anything-goes pop The 1983 LP introduced a generation to hip-hop and mashed up style – but by not crediting Black musicians, it was also cultural appropriation. Producer Trevor Horn recalls its creation
Louder · May 26, 2023 Noel Gallagher dismisses The 1975's Matty Healy as a "slack-jawed f***wit” for calling for an Oasis reunion, advises him to split up his own "sh*t" band instead Having learned of Matty Healy's comments on a potential Oasis reunion, Noel Gallagher offered some advice of his own to The 1975's frontman