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Banging The Door: John Lydon Reclaims His Irish Identity

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Anniversary

Lightning Strikes Twice: Nicholas Lezard On PiL’s Metal Box

Critic Nicholas Lezard looks back 40 years to the post punk versus punk stand off between Public Image Ltd and The Clash, and finds, in John Lydon at least, an example of lightning striking twice in the same place

Anniversary

The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle By The Sex Pistols 40 Years On

Michael Hann is ready to acknowledge the multiple faults of The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, but he'd still sooner listen to it than Never Mind The Bollocks...

A Quietus Interview

Punky Reggae Party Politics: Vivien Goldman interview

Ahead of her concert at Pop Kultur in Berlin this summer, the esteemed journalist and author talks to David Chiu about her recording career during the late 1970s and early 1980s that included working with The Flying Lizards, John Lydon and Robert Wyatt
Black Sky Thinking

Dance ‘Til The Police Come: Post-Punk Politics In 2012

In our latest Wreath Lecture, Joe Kennedy argues that now the flaccid post punk revival of ten years ago is over, in 2012 artists are making music that embraces the imperative to move forward and reflect troubled times. Header image: artwork for test pressing of Prurient's Bermuda Drain
Anniversary

Private School – Public Image: What PiL’s Album Means To Me

Wyndham Wallace recalls how Public Image Ltd.’s most commercially successful release, Album, helped him survive life at a red brick boarding school
Black Sky Thinking

My Favourite Miles Davis Album By Lydon, Nick Cave, Wayne Coyne, Iggy & More

As Bitches Brew turns 50 John Doran asked Iggy Pop, Jim Sclavunos, Jason Pierce, Mike Patton, Paul Weller and many other musicians to tell us about their favourite albums by Miles Davis
A Quietus Interview

Thinking Outside The Box: PiL’s John Lydon Interviewed

David Gavan finds John Lydon in unusually candid mode, discussing PiL, friends past and former, Irish and English identity and his idea of a good read
Books

Simon Reynolds In Conversation: Talking Totally Wired

The Quietus speaks to Simon Reynolds about his new book _Totally Wired_, a companion piece to post punk bible _Rip It Up And Start Again_
Black Sky Thinking

Lydongate! Johnny’s Behaviour Rotten? Swells On The ‘Racist’ Ruckus

Swells has produced a cut out and keep guide to help you work your way round the tricky fact that John Lydon seems to be a bit of a tit.

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

Planets Of Sound: Joey Santiago Of Pixies’ Favourite Albums

With Indie Cindy out and their headline slot at Field Day on the horizon, Joseph Alberto Santiago, Pixies' lead guitarist-cum-noise implementer, rocks us with his 13 defining records
Baker's Dozen

Alan Wilder Of Recoil & Depeche Mode’s 13 Favourite LPs

As Short Circuit fast approaches, we talk to Alan Wilder about his 13 favourite records, and how they shaped his work in post-Depeche Mode project Recoil

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