Many, many more reviews in Reviews section! Don't forget your reviews and pix in Tour Reports and Reviews. See PiLOfficial.Com for more info!
Thank you.
july 26th 2010
Following on from Leftfield's announcement to pull-out of their appearance in Israel - we can assure you Public Image Limited will absolutely NOT be canceling.
David Worth - who drew and kindly gave us the PiL / John Lydon caricatures cartoons for use on the sites - got to meet John and Rambo at Liverpool. We've republished all of David's caricatures above; including a pic of David with John and Rambo. They are laughing at the picture of the chimp peeing on John! Respect to David. Thank you. Click for larger versions.
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John and John would also like to thank the person who gave them the Arsenal drawing montage at Liverpool on Saturday. Much appreciated.
JohnLydon.Com / PiLOfficial.Com
july 20th 2010
To clear up any confusion regards the funding/backing of the forthcoming PiL documentary.
The company Artists Public Domain are the sole company backing the production of the documentary. One of the company 'Artists Public Domain' co-founders is also a co-founder of DFA Records to whom LCD Soundsystem are signed. LCD Soundsystem however have no direct association with the production of this documentary.
july 18th 2010
PiL UK Tour starts tomorrow! Send your tour reports, reviews and comments to PiLOfficial.Com and they will post them on their Tour Reports and Reviews page. As you've read the PiL 2009-10 shows have been outstanding! Don't miss out.
See our Shows page for all announced dates; including Festival appearances.
You can watch John's interview on Sky News via the link below.
july 16th 2010
You can listen to yesterday's BBC6 Music interview via the BBC website or iPlayer service. John talks about lack of support from Virgin / EMI and the band's forthcoming show in Israel.
"I will play to the people. I don't play to the Government of anything... I'm playing to human beings, and to deny me that right and turn music into some kind of political joystick is quite repulsive to me, and really, really wrong."
"And hello, Arab countries you ain't inviting me. I've got no prejudices playing both sides of those borders..."
He also talks about Israel - amongst many other things - on Sky News this Sunday, July 18th, at approx 11.45am. Not to be missed!
You can still listen to John's interview with Vic Galloway on BBC Scotland from July 5th via BBC iPlayer. John discusses the possibility of the band recording a self-funded album at the end of the year and looks forward to next week's show in Glasgow.
John is interviewed in today's edition (Friday) of the Daily Mirror. Read the interview here. Also look out for John on the front cover of tomorrow's 'Independent Magazine' within the Independent Newspaper. He will also be on the cover of the Guardian Guide within the Guardian Newspaper, again tomorrow, Saturday July 17th.
“Of course, there are all sorts of terrible politics going on down there but there is just about all over the world. You cannot separate yourself from your audience because of the political powers-that-be. I mean, I'm anti-government—I have been all my life no matter where I go—and I shall be making that loud and clearly proud once I'm in Israel."
"We've received a lot of hate mail, as it happens, going to Israel is some kind of political faux pas. I say, 'Don't be so ignorant -- it's John speaking here and I'm going there to cause trouble and I will do it musically.”
As a big fan of the Pistols & PIL for more than 30 years, and a warrior for peace & equality, anti-fascist & anti-racist, i'm waiting for you, johnny.
YALLA BALAGAN!!!!! SEE U IN ISRAEL
yours
Shay
John appears in today's edition of the Daily Star newspaper. Read the interview here.
He is also interviewed in this week's NME. An excerpt of the interview is available on their website. A feature length interview is in this month's issue of Word Magazine. Other recent interviews have included Time Out London, Hammersmith & Fulham News, and Bristol Evening Post.
John will appear on BBC6, Music Breakfast Show at approx 9.40 tomorrow morning, Thursday, July 15th.
july 12th 2010
ALiFE 2009 on sale at Amsterdam and UK dates!
The Brixton Academy 2009 ALiFE CD set will be on sale on the PiL tour at UK dates and also at Amsterdam, Paradiso tomorrow (Tuesday, July 13th). The CD set will include the December 2009 Brixton Academy show recorded over 2 discs, plus a bonus 3rd disc including a video interview with John Lydon, as he discusses his career and return of the band. This disc also includes behind the scenes video footage and high quality exclusive photographs of the band taken at the bands rehearsal sessions.
Only the Brixton Academy show will be available, and no new shows will be recorded, however, the disc will be on sale at all UK shows and also online via the Concert
Live website for home delivery.
Concert Live will also be selling these must have additions to any fans collection at the PiL show tomorrow night at the Paradiso in Amsterdam!
See the PiLOfficial.Com ALiFE page for full info, plus tracklisting's, sample images etc. You can also listen to Rise
- Live at Birmingham 2009 via their PiL Audio player.
The European leg of PiL's tour starts tomorrow (July 10th) at Rock Zottegem Festival in Belgium and PiLOfficial.Com wants YOU to share your reviews of all the forthcoming European and UK shows. Send your tour reports, reviews and comments here. And they will post them on their Tour Reports and Reviews page.
Your active participation is greatly appreciated!
As you've read on our Tour Reports and Reviews the PiL 2009-10 shows have been outstanding! Don't miss out...
Tickets are onsale now for all UK shows which start next Monday at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on July, 19th. See Shows for full dates and ticket / venue links etc.
The European leg of PiL's tour starts next weekend with two headlining Festival appearances in Belgium (July 10th-11th). Tickets for the July UK tour and Amsterdam Paradiso are ON SALE NOW. See links below.
As you've read on PiLOfficial.Com Tour Reports and Reviews the PiL 2009-10 shows have been outstanding! Don't miss out.
See our Shows page for all announced dates; including Festival appearances.
july 1st 2010
Public Image Ltd would like to apologise to all their German fans, but unfortunately, they have had to cancel the August German tour due to production scheduling problems. The tour will not be rescheduled. Tickets are still available for all other shows including UK, Amsterdam and festival appearances.
Fans who already bought a ticket will get a refund. If you bought your ticket at a retail outlet, please return it at the same location. If you bought your ticket online, please visit the website of the ticket service to get more information.
If you bought your ticket at www.lb-events.de please send your original tickets along with your bank details to the following address:
Lars Berndt EVENTS GmbH
Natorpstr. 19
44795 Bochum
Germany
june
26th 2010
You can read a new 3 part interview with John in preparation of the forthcoming European and UK dates at ClashMagazine.Com.
On General Sale NOW!
All regional dates £25.00 adv, London £27.50 adv
See Shows page for latest announced PiL tour dates and ticket links etc...
june
3rd 2010
PiL will headline the Heineken Music Conference 2010 Festival in Tel-Aviv, Israel on Sunday, August 31st 2010. PiL will play on the last night of the festival which takes place at the Fair, Trade & Convention Centre at 101 Rokach Ave. Tel-Avi. See their website for more info...
PiL have lined up a 6 date UK tour for July 2010. The band will play London, Bristol, Oxford, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 4th at 0900 via ticketweb.co.uk or 0844 477 2000 (24hr). All regional dates £25.00 adv, London £27.50 adv.
Tomorrow night's final show of the tour at New York Music Hall of Williamsburg is completely sold-out however some tickets are still available for tonight's show (Tuesday, 18th) at New York Terminal 5. Don't miss out! See the Terminal 5 website for info.
You can watch a bonus performance of 'Public Image' from last night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Show via the shows website. The band performed Bags for the broadcast.
PiL have lined up an August German tour starting in Dortmund at the FZW on August 15th 2010 with dates following in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Offenbach.
A special pre-sale begins Tuesday, May 18th at 9am with the General sale starting this Friday 21st. Tickets are available at a price of 40,00 Euro through the ticket hotline 0234 9471940 and online www.lb-events.de/shop.
See Shows page for latest announced PiL tour dates and ticket links etc...
John Lydon will be appearing live on East Village Radio at 10am (ET) tomorrow (Tuesday, May 18th). Listeners will be given the chance to win tickets for that night's show at New York, Terminal 5. See the East Village Radio website for more info.
may
14th 2010
PiL will be appearing on NBC, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this Monday, May 17th (12:35 AMET-PT/11:25 PMCT)
Click on the link below and you will be directed to their “Band Bench” Sweepstakes entry form. Enter for a chance to win seats on their band benches and an opportunity to surround the stage during PiL’s performance.
Please make sure you include the following band code: PIL, in your entry form.
The NPR audio webcast of last night's outstanding Washington 9:30 Club show is available via the NPR website. NPR has also posted a selection of photos from the show via this link.
Update: You can also download a full podcast of the show via iTunes.
may
12th 2010
Tonight's show (May 12th) and NPR webcast at Washington, 9:30 Club is now scheduled to begin at 9pm ET (rather than 8pm as previously mentioned). The concert will also be available for download as part of NPR’s “All Songs Considered” podcast.
NYC show to be filmed for PiL documentary!
AND PiL to appear on NBC, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Show!
As PiL continue to make their rounds across North America garnering uniformly rave reviews on their first U.S. tour in 18 years, the group has announced they’ll will appear on NBC TV’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Show” on Monday, May 17 (12:35 AMET-PT/11:25 PMCT).
They will also film their entire performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on Wednesday, May 19 for a forthcoming PiL documentary directed by Alex Mar and produced by Artists Public Domain.
DJ Justin Miller of DFA Records will open the Williamsburg show.
The previous night’s show (Tuesday, May 18) is still scheduled for Terminal 5. All ticket holders for Wednesday, May 19 will receive a notification from Ticketmaster with a choice of keeping their tickets for the Williamsburg show or transferring them to the Tuesday, May 18 show at Terminal 5. The deadline to make this decision is end of day on Friday, May 7. Any ticket buyer who doesn’t respond to the contact email from Ticketmaster will have their tickets automatically refunded. As of Tuesday, May 4, any new tickets purchased for Wednesday, May 19 will be for the Music Hall of Williamsburg show.
Please note venue change for this Friday's appearance in Toronto. The band will now play the Phoenix Concert Theatre instead of the Kool Haus. The venues are approximately 1.6 miles apart from each other.
The YouTube Channel for DetroitCity.TV have posted several clips from Wednesday's webcast of PiL's show at Pontiac, Crofoot Ballroom show. See PiLOfficial.Com for more info...
Tonight's PiL show at Pontiac, Crofoot Ballroom, USA (Wednesday April 28th 2010) will be webcast live via DetroitCity.TV. The show will be filmed on HD Camera. The performance is scheduled to start at 9pm ET.
PiL carictures sent in by Dave Worth. Brilliant! Click for larger images.
april
25th 2010
In conjunction with the concert promoters PiL have arranged for tickets for the cancelledDenver show to be valid for tomorrow's (Monday) Kansas City show at the Midland Theatre.
John Lydon and PiL would like to apologise again for the Denver cancellation but circumstances were out of their control.
It's been a very long time since PiL played Kansas or Denver - and as you'll see on the PiL Tour Reports page - these shows are something very special and not to be missed.
Two fans disappointed PiL fans outside the Ogden Theater Denver on Saturday. The couple flew in from Houston for the gig. Hopefully they can now make the Kansas show on Monday. Pic Credit: Joel Dallenbach
april
24th 2010 UPDATE
Denver Show Cancelled Due to Adverse Weather
Unfortunately Public Image Ltd have had to cancel tonight's (Saturday) appearance in Denver due to adverse weather conditions and the resulting closure of the Interstate 80.
John Lydon and PiL would like to apologise to everybody who had planned to attend the concert.
Due to severe ice on the road the band and crew were stuck in traffic for over 10 hours on the I-80 outside Rawlins, Wyoming and are now unable to make it to the venue on time. Sorry, they did everything they could, but it is now impossible.
Ticket refunds are available at point of purchase.
PiL on Tour Now! See PiLOfficial.Com for daily updates. Including press interviews and reviews, plus YOUR concert reviews, including pix and video clips; and quotes from John Lydon.
Keep the concert reviews coming! your active participation is more than appreciated. Send them HERE.
See Tours page for PiL tour dates and ticket links etc...
PiLOfficial.Com has also added pictures of Club Nokia and Coachella to their Image Gallery pages. The shots were taken by PiL friend and associate River O'Mahoney Hagg. River gets the shots the others don't. Whether that be on stage, in the crowd, in the pit, or in the dressing room. Hats off to him. Welcome home.
NEW YORK TIMES (Coachella)
“Mr. Lydon’s voice, as strong and cantankerous as ever, was a sneer, a taunt, a howl, a bleat and a cry of pain. His production values were in his hair, spiked skyward, and in the various instruments--including a long-necked electric sax--played by the guitarist Lu Edmonds, who was a member of Public Image Ltd. in the 1980s. …PiL has kept the skeletons of its songs, but it lets Mr. Edmonds and a new rhythm section take them over. Mr. Edmonds likes reverb, leaving fewer stark open spaces, and Middle Eastern music, coming up with modal leads that add a different kind of angularity to the music. Scott Firth on bass and keyboards and Bruce Smith on drums make the beats jauntier than they were in PiL’s old recordings. But Mr. Lydon’s voice is still corrosive, with additional decades of knowing sarcasm. ’Hello, Coachella, I’m a nice fella,’ he rhymed as he introduced ‘Flowers of Romance.’ He ended PiL’s set, which outlasted Jay-Z’s, with ‘Open Up,’ a song he recorded in 1993 as Leftfield Lydon, collaborating with the electronic group Leftfield. ‘Lose yourself inside your schemes/Go for the money, honey,’ he cackled. ‘Burn, Hollywood, burn.’”
--Jon Pareles, New York Times, Saturday, April 17
LOS ANGELES TIMES (Coachella)
“…snarling post-punk pioneers Public Image Ltd. offered a master class in the volatile blend of disco, dub and the avant-garde that informed LCD Soundsystem’s rapturous punk-funk and many of Coachella’s previous breakout bands, such as Bloc Party.”
--Margaret Wappler and August Brown, Los Angeles Times, Monday April, 19
ROLLING STONE.COM (Club Nokia, Los Angeles)
http://tinyurl.com/y623o5m
“… PiL operated amid swirling dark clouds of noise, emphasizing the brooding, uncompromising tone of PiL’s sound. The group’s early signature song, ‘Public Image,’ was not far removed from the raw, straight-ahead rock of the Pistols, but with a guitar sound that became the template for U2’s the Edge and other players. ‘Albatross’ was all post-punk gloom and slicing riffs, while the deep grooves of ‘Religion’ were provocative and riveting…”
--Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, Wednesday, April 14
SPIN.COM (Club Nokia, Los Angeles)
http://www.spin.com/gallery/public-image-ltd-first-gig-18-years
“From the set's opening number--the band's biggest hit, 1983's ‘This Is Not A Love Song’--PiL held a firm grasp on the audience's attention with Lydon's spasmodic dancing and monstrous bursts of scream-singing. The band played old songs like ‘Rise,’ ‘Death Disco,’ and ‘Flowers of Romance.’ Edmonds slashed his way through the riff-heavy songs as Firth unleashed hard-hitting baselines on tracks like ‘Sun’ and ‘Warrior.’ …both young music lovers and old school rockers--who danced and moshed, eager to act out the punk days of the past. Coachella fans take note: PiL's performance Friday night at 11:20 PM at the Outdoor Theatre is not to be missed.”
--Nicholas Bowden, SPIN, Wednesday, April 14
"We would like to thank Coachella in the furtherance of our quest to lead where others can only dream to follow.” -John Lydon, Public Image Ltd, April 20th 2010
"We would like to thank Coachella in the furtherance of our quest to lead where others can only dream to follow". John Lydon, Public Image Ltd, April 17th 2010
PiL to Headline Outdoor Theatre Stage at Coachella + 80 minute set!
PiL have been confirmed as headliners of the Outdoor Theatre stage at this weekend's Coachella Festival (Friday, April 16th). The band are due on stage at 11.20 and will play for 80 minutes (not the 50 minutes stated elsewhere). Read the full press release via PiLOfficial.Com.
PiL kicked off their North American tour in grand style last night at Club Nokia. PiLOfficial.Com has begun posting new reviews and interviews. They have also set up a special 2010 Tour Reports page where YOU can send in your tour reports, reviews, comments etc.
They will be adding more as they get them. Keep them coming throughout the tour...
See Shows page for announced PiL tour dates and ticket links etc...
Also, tickets for both Boston shows are on sale now via Ticketmaster
april
9th 2010
You can now watch John Lydon's interview on Red Eye via the Fox News website.
april
8th 2010
You can watch PiL's performance of 'Rise' and 'This Is Not a Love Song', plus an interview with John Lydon, from yesterday's Jimmy Kimmel Live via their website or YouTube channel. We have posted the links below.
John will also be appearing on tonight's Red Eye on Fox News. The show airs Thursday April 8 (12 AM PST) / Friday April 9 (3 AM EST). See the Red Eye website for more info...
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