I'd love to go this show! I'm a mad fan of the Pistols! Wouldn't be the same without Sid Viscious though!
Pistols add two more gigs to meet demand
British punk rock icons, the Sex Pistols, added two more comeback concerts onto their schedule after a planned one-off show sold out within 10 minutes.
The band said this week they would reform for a single gig at south London's 4,900-capacity Brixton Academy on November 8 to mark the 30th anniversary of their seminal album Never Mind
the Bollocks.
But due to overwhelming demand, the venue said the Pistols would also now play on November 9 and 10, after the STG37.50 ($A86.90) tickets were quickly snapped up. The band's PR firm also criticised brokers who it said were now selling these tickets at "highly inflated" prices, with some quoting figures of around STG85 ($A196).
To coincide with the Sex Pistols reunion, music paper NME.COM said it had started a campaign to propel their song God Save The Queen to the top of the charts when it is reissued on seven-inch vinyl in October.
It says the single, banned by radio stations in 1977 because it risked offending the monarchy during the Queen's Jubilee year, was unfairly denied the top spot.
The Sex Pistols were one of the best-know British rock bands to emerge from the short-lived punk revolution in the mid-1970s.
Loathed by the establishment but an inspiration to a generation of bored teenagers in the 1970s, the Pistols spat and swore their way into the history books, perfectly capturing the malaise sweeping Britain.
Last week, Sex Pistols singer John Lydon, 51, formerly known as Johnny Rotten, slammed 1970s band the Police as a bunch of "soggy old dead carcasses".
In his typical sneering style, he referred to singer and bassist Sting as "Stink" in an interview with Virgin Radio.
"You know listening to Stink try to squeak through Roxanne one more time that's not fun," he said.
Celebrated for their spikey, soaped-up coloured hair, torn clothing and bondage trousers, the Sex Pistols spearheaded the British Punk Rock movement.
They boasted they had made "cash from chaos" helping to launch hundreds of similar bands in Britain and the United States.
Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols, has been credited with having revolutionised popular music.
Post-punk bands like Joy Division, the Smiths, Nirvana and later Brit Pop's Blur, Oasis and Pulp have all said they have drawn enormous influence from the band over the years.
The band split acrimoniously in 1978 after a disastrous US tour and before the death of bassist Sid Vicious from a drugs overdose in New York.
