Rise- John Lydon’s Sellout Brings PiL Back from Oblivion
13 Jul
This awful ad from late 2008 featuring John Lydon had many scratching their heads and even more in the blogoshere calling him a sellout and a pathetic shill. While never one to back away from a camera, at the time the former Johnny Rotten claimed this one was all for art- specifically that all the money he was paid for the ad would go into putting some form of Public Image Limited back together. Fortunately, Lydon has kept his word. PiL is currently touring in the UK and Lydon claims the band (which really has always been a revolving cast with Lydon as the driving force) is working on new material. It’s nice to see Lydon back working on PiL, a band that has, consistently, cut its own brazen musical path; that, somehow, was able to release an album with a naked vagina on the cover without the label realizing it until it was too late,; and that Henry Rollins rightly called “[an] infinitely more interesting a band than the Sex Pistols”. Hopefully this time around the band won’t be riven by legal disputes…
If you’re going to be in the UK in the next few weeks click here to find out about tickets.
