Public Image Ltd - Rockaway Beach Festival, Butlins, Bognor Regis - 3rd January 2026 - An Acid Drops Exclusive

 

here's my first share of 2026.

A lovely MP3 recording of PIL from a couple of days ago.

Massive thanks to Phil Morris for making this available to share with you all.

An Acid Drops exclusive.

01 Hello Butlins

02 Home

03 Know Now

04 Corporate

05 World Destruction

06 (This Is Not A) Love Song

07 Poptones

08 Death Disco

09 Flowers Of Romance

10 Warrior

11 Shoom

12 Public Image

13 Encore break

14 Open Up

15 Rise

16 Annalisa Attack_Chant

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Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter - Royal Albert Hall, London - 24th March 2025 - CD art work

 Blog follower, Steve Meanie, has created some CD artwork for the RAH gig. 

Click on the pick & grab it for yor collection. 

Massive thanks to Steve for creating these & sharing them with us all .

This artwork was created exclusively for Acid Drops & I'm well chuffed with it 

Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter - Bush Hall, Shepherd's Bush, London - 15th August 2024

 

Regardless of your thoughts about the band playing without John, I can confirm Frank was a great front man and did a blinding job. 

This is an Acid Drops exclusive, not available anywhere else.

Setlist 

intro

Holidays in the Sun 

Seventeen 

New York 

Pretty Vacant

Bodies

Did You No Wrong

Liar

God Save the Queen

Submission

Satellite

No Feelings 

EMI

Problems

encore break

No Fun 

Anarchy in the UK

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PIL -- Engine Rooms, Southampton - 12th June 2022

 well here it is - the first audience recording of PIL's 2022 UK Tour - its a great sounding recording and an absolutely wonderful gig. It's my pleasure to be able to share this with you all as a free download (of course). Hopefully more gigs from this tour will surface in the future. As you know if they do and I get copies then I will share them all with you here on Acid Drops. This one is an Acid Drops exclusive as its not available anywhere else on the web. If is does appear then you can guarantee  that it was downloaded from here first 

Enjoy (sorry, no cd artwork came with this one)

setlist:

Religion

Memories

The Body

Warrior

Corporate

The Room I Am in

The One

Death Disco

USLS1

Bags/Chant

Disappointed

Love Song

Public Image

encore:

Shoom

Open Up

Rise

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Yur Mum - Lips Can Kill Tour - The Albert, Brighton - 27th November 2019

I've been lucky enough to get another Acid Drops Exclusive! Yur Mum live on the Lips Can Kill Tour 2019.
from their site
''Yur Mum is a two-piece rock band based in London, UK. Formed by vocalist

and bassist Anelise Kunz and drummer Fabio Couto.

The band’s debut album, 'ROAD RAGE', was released by Flicknife Records

in 2018

In 2019, Yur Mum self released the EP ‘Ellipsis’, which includes the single

'SWEATSHOP', featured by Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music.

With over 200 live performances to date, Yur Mum has become notorious

by their energetic and incomparable live performances.

Follow them on Facebook click here for their Official Facebook page

on Twitter - click here to follow Yur Mum on Twitter

Yur Mum's Official website - click here to go to the Official Yur Mum site

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Pollypikpocketz - Lips Can Kill Tour - The Albert, Brighton - 27th November 2019

Last year saw The Lips Can Kill Tour hit the UK - 4 Indie bands touring together. Each night the bands would change the order of who appeared in which order, so all the bands would get a turn as headliners. The tour was great fun and a great success. Lips Can Kill two is planned for October/November 2021 and I strongly recommend you check it out. You'll have a great night out. Obviously in the current climate of Covid 19 and Lockdown in the UK its not definite the tour will go ahead.

Anyway I've been sent a recording of Pollypikpockets set from their gig in Brighton last year. I absolutely love this band.

A vibrant & colourful mixture of style, culture, sex, musical influence & facial hair all puked into one. Catch them now before they become illegal.

The whole band are lovely people, not only do you get an energetic performance when you see them live you can get to chat and have a laugh with them as well, they're all really down to earth and love a beer and chat with the fans.

As far as I'm aware this is the first ever audience audio recording of one of their sets to surface. So this is an Acid Drops Exclusive for you all.

If you like it check them out on 

Facebook - click here for Pollypikpocketz Official Facebook page

Twitter - Click here to follow their Official Twitter account


Jump on Spotify and check out their excellent debut Album - Ang On A Minute

Vocals: Myura Amara
Guitar & Vox: Mat Kiki
Bass & Vox: Frog
Drums: Shane Howard

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Prisoners of Mother England - rehearsal - Joint Studio, Kings Cross, London - 18th December 2019

Recorded and shared with the full consent of the band

An Acid Drop exclusive

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PIL - Perkins Palace, Pasadena, USA - 15th November 1984 - An Acid Drops exclusive

AN ACID DROPS EXCLUSIVE!

The Perkins Palace gig was something slightly out of the norm for PIL.  This is a special 'just-for-TV' gig for US show 'Rock of the 80's'. Bands regularly played a very shortened set compared to the norm.

The video of the TV broadcast has done the rounds for years and is on YouTube.

What I have here is the complete set played by PIL. Its an audience recording but has the whole thing. The intro - all 6 tracks and the end. 

Not shared anywhere else on the internet and taken from the original Master recording, I'm very pleased to once again give you something a little bit special.

tracks:

intro

Bad Life

Public Image

Low Life

Bodies

This Is Not A Love Song

Annalisa

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Hands Off Gretel - Fest, Camden Rocks, London - 2nd June 2018

An Acid Drops exclusive!

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The Professionals - Electric Ballroom, Camden Rocks - 2nd June 2018

An Acid Drops Exclusive!

Yep, I've done it again, yet another recording exclusively available for you all to have for free

A mind blowing, amazing performance from the Professionals, at this year's Camden Rocks Festival.

setlist

Payola

Good Man Down

Join The Professionals

Going, Going, Gone

Silly Thing

Rewind

Crescendo

Just Another Dream

Take Me Now

hats Off

Kick Down The Doors

Lets Go

1-2-3

Comes complete with artwork created by myself 

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PIL - O2 Academy, Newcastle - 12th June 2018

An Acid Drops Exclusive!

Here's the gig from last night in Newcastle. Exclusively available here on Acid Drops.

Setlist

Warrior

Memories

The Body

The One

Corporate

The Room I Am In

Death Disco

Cruel

I'm Not Satisfied

Flowers of Romance

This Is Not A Love Song

Rise

(encore)

Public Image

Open Up

Shoom

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John Lydon - The Public Image is Rotten Q&A with Don Letts - Odeon Cinema, Camden, London - 3rd June 2018

An Acid Drops Exclusive

The day after PIL's highly rated live performance at the Electric Ballroom, for the Camden Rocks Festival, the new PIL documentary, The Public Image is Rotten, was given a special showing at the Odeon Cinema in Camden.

Afterwards the audience was treated to a Q & A with John Lydon, chaired by the legendary Don Letts.

Fan of the blog, Marco Rat, travelled from the Netherlands for the film and was kind enough to record the Q&A afterwards.

He's sent it to me with permission to share it on Acid Drops

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Once again MASSIVE thanks to Marco Rat for recording this and allowing it to be shared

Your kindness is appreciated 

PIL - The Copper Rooms, Coventry - 4th June 2018

An Acid Drops Exclusive! 

Here's the second recording to arrive from this year's Anniversary Tour - Enjoy! 

Massive Thanks to the original taper Jonny Edwards, who recorded this, created artwork and sent it to me to exclusively share for free, on Acid Drops, with all of you

This comes with full cd artwork. 

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Cheers Jonny it's a blinding recording 

PIL - The Electric Ballroom, Camden Rocks, London - 2nd June 2018

An Acid Drops Exclusive!

Here's the first recording to surface from this year's 40th Anniversary Tour

It comes with full CD artwork, created by myself.

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Enjoy!

Spizzenergi - 10th September 2016, Undercover Festival, Brighton

well here's my last post of 2016. Punk legends Spizzenergi at the Undercover Festival, Brighton.

With full cd artwork created by myself. Have a great Christmas everyone and a happy and healthy 2017.

A PIL Head recording PH009

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Viki Vortex & The Cum Shots - 10th September 2016 - Undercover Festival, Brighton

Here's a great fun, punk band that I saw at this Years Undercover Festival. Some good tunes with tongue in cheek lyrics, you'll enjoy this I promise you.


This comes with full CD artwork created by myself.

A PIL Head recording PH007

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Piranhas 4 - 24th November 2016 - The Dome, Brighton

Local band and original Punks, The Piranhas, supported the Damned on their recent 40th Anniversary gig at The Brighton Dome.

The Piranhas have always written songs with some what tongue in cheek lyrics and catchy tunes.

Here's their set from that night.

Enjoy!

A PIL Head recording PH012

This comes with full CD artwork created by myself.

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Punk40 - The Damned - 24th November 2016 - The Dome, Brighton

It seem appropriate that my very last posts celebrating 40 Years of Punk, is from the Damned's 40th Anniversary Tour. It was an amazing night, packed out with a crowd that was there for a good time.

We were not disappointed. The night started well with great support from Original Brighton Punk's the Piranhas (or Piranhas 4 as they now call themselves) - I'll post their set a bit later.

Captain Sensible was a great host and Dave Vanian was at the top of his game. 

On the night they played the first ever British punk LP - Damned, Damned, Damned as well as a whole host of hits from their extensive back catalogue.

the recording download comes with full CD artwork created by myself.

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A PIL Head Recording PH013

Glen Matlock - 7th November 2016 - Komedia, Brighton

Glen has been doing a solo tour of the UK this month. Just him, a few stories and his guitar. It was a great night out and very entertaining. I've seen Glen many times down the years but never performing an acoustic set. So this was a first for me.

His stories were touched with humour and the setting was quite intimate. After the gig he signed a few things for the fans and posed for photos.

Glen played a good variety of songs from his career as well as ones that he had been influenced by. Of course there was a couple of obligatory Sex Pistols tracks as well.

Here's my recording of the night. the download comes with cd artwork which I created myself.

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A PIL Head Recording PH011

Sad Vacation - World Exclusive interview with Co writer & Producer - Brett Dunford.

Well I am very, very pleased to be able to bring you a World Exclusive!!!!

I have been very lucky to be given an interview with Brett Dunford, Sad Vacation's co-writer and Producer.

Interview with Sad Vacation co-writer and producer, Brett Dunford

PH: Now that Sad Vacation is ready for release how do you feel about the finished product

BD: I feel fucking good about it. I was able to view the documentary at various creative stages, so I had a pretty good idea of how it would turn out. But you can never be one hundred percent sure until you've seen the end result. And it goes beyond what I expected.

PH: How and when did your involvement start?

BD: I was brought into it during the final months of production. As you know, I run a leading Sid and Nancy blog and Facebook community, and have been writing a biography on Sid called Vicious White Kid for a couple of years now. We first hooked up when I interviewed him for my blog in April 2014, which was one of his first interviews for Sad Vacation, funnily enough. Exactly two years later and he's interviewing me!

Phyllis Stein set the whole thing up, really. And the more I talked to Danny, the more I realised we were totally on the same page. Other than the anecdotes that I give in the film, I was also consultant, oversaw some of the London reenactment shoots, and helped write part of the narrative.

PH: Reenactments?

BD: I dragged Conor Hussey of The Sex Pistols Experience out in the pissing rain for a couple of days, poor lad. I was present on the first day and it was uncanny watching him walking around London and acting like Sid; he really looked the part.

PH: What are you most proud of about the film as a whole?

BD: I'm happy that we made a solid documentary that presents facts instead of the usual unprovable distractions. I think it's as close as we're ever going to get to solving the events of the Chelsea Hotel.

PH: Tell me something exclusive.

BD: Huey Morgan of the Fun Lovin' Criminals does the narration, although I think that information is up at IMDb already. Um, what else? Sad Vacation contains more unseen photographs of Sid and Nancy in one place than anything else on the market right now. It's a photo collector's wet dream, and some of them are quite "personal".

PH: When can the public see it?

BD: It opens in London through the Doc' n Roll Festival. At Picturehouse Central, Shaftesbury Avenue on November 6th.

PH: Apart from the London premiere, are there plans for a wider theatrical release?

BD: We have one other date already in Philadelphia, and screenings for Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Texas are being ironed out as we speak. Territories outside of the UK and US are also in the works.

PH: Will there be related merchandise?

BD: Yes. The DVD drops on December 9th worldwide, and there will probably be the usual related stuff like t-shirts and posters, but I have no idea of when they might be available to purchase. The safest bet would be around the time of the DVD release. You can stay up-to-date via the official Sad Vacation Facebook page, and at the Chip Baker website.

PH: Are there any extras?

BD: You'll get a behind-the-scenes featurette, some promotional material like the theatrical and teaser trailers. and a couple of music videos. Another thing I should mention is that Sad Vacation has a great soundtrack.

PH: Anything special planned for the premieres that you can divulge?

BD: Maaaybe! But if I divulged them now, they wouldn't be special.

PH: Trying to be as impartial as possible, can you sum up what the fans will get from this film?



BD: The truth. Or as fucking close to it as humanly possible at this juncture. If you have seen Danny's previous film, Looking for Johnny, then you will know what to expect. He's a guerrilla filmmaker and gets shit done on half the budget of other documentarians. And Sad Vacation is his best film to date, in my opinion.

Brett Dunford


Vicious White Kid (author)
Sad Vacation (writer/producer)

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Well there you have it, a true first with some exclusive info for you all - A MASSIVE THANK YOU  to Brett for taking the time to speak with me and letting me get this interview to you all.

Be sure to check out Sad Vacation very soon - the must see Punk film for Punk's 40th Anniversary

click here to go to the Sad Vacation facebook page