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

 

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

 A wonderful recording from the 2019 Lips Can Kill Tour.

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John Lydon – I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right Q&A Tour 2021 a review

 

John Lydon – I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right Q&A Tour 2021

After being delayed by Covid 19 in 2020, the Tour finally went ahead.

I was lucky enough to be at the first night at Hastings, White Rock, on September 7th 2021 and also Worthing, Pavilion Theatre, September 10th 2021.

You never know what you’re gonna get with John, Are you getting Johnny Rotten, the man that gets on peoples nerves and makes statements for the headlines or are we going to get John Lydon, the honest, open and approachable man????

I can tell you now, we got John Lydon. John was relaxed, fun and enjoyable. You could tell he was loving this. The ‘’show’’ is made up of 2 parts, both approximately 45 minutes in length. The first half John and Andy (from Away with Media) sit and chat about the book and pick away at its contents, the second half, is made up with John answering audience questions, which they wrote and popped into a box during the interval.

John did not avoid any questions.

Hearing him speak about Nora was emotional, his love and affection for her can clearly be seen by the way he speaks about her. ‘’I don’t want to give any spoilers, but this is the most open I have ever heard John speak about his marriage and what Nora means to him.

John talks about Sid and Abba, yep that’s right Abba, and we even get a sing along with Johnny moment , which is so funny. The crowd are lapping up John,

Obviously PIL comes up in conversation, they will tour next year he confirms, there will be a new album, but with what he’s dealing with with Nora he couldn’t commit to any timescale.

At Hastings we had a couple of hecklers, John put them in their place immediately. You cant out Rotten Johnny Rotten.

AND YES, the recent Sex Pistols court case was dealt with indepth.

I did wonder if each night would have a formula worked out and he would just cover the same stuff each night, apart from the audience questions. From the 2 nights I went to I can confirm they were very different and varied.

John had a lot of time for the fans and tried hard to answer as many questions as he could. He was funny, engaging, interesting and thoroughly entertaining.

If you get the chance to see him on this Tour then please do it, it’s a great night out and one you will remember forever.

There will never be another Tour like this one. Away With Media have done an amazing job delivering a great quality book for a reasonable price, and every copy signed. And The Tour they have put together is great fun and value for money. After a night with John you cant help but come away with a massive smile on your face. This is the real John Lydon, just being himself…..and do you know what? He’s bloody fun to be around.

PIL - Electric Ballroom, Camden, London - 23rd December 2009

 another incomplete recording from the only other gig on the ALife tour that wasnt recorded.

Not the greatest quality, sad to say, def one for completists 

Rabbit Song 

Public Image 

Careering 

Love Song

Poptones 

Tie me To the Length of That

Death disco

Flowers of Romance

Bags

Chant 

Religion

Annalisa

Rise

Sun 

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PIL - O2 Academy, Glasgow - 18th December 2009

 so after 17 years PIL returned with a mini tour - which was pretty much a greatest hits set. Most of the gigs, apart from 2, were recorded and released on CD as part of the ALife series. The Glasgow gig wasnt one of them.

Here I give you 2 versions - a half decent quality, edited incomplete recording plus a poor quality full recording.

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Public Image LTD recordings - what's left???

 Hi everyone

cant believe you lot are still looking in and supporting me and my humble blog after so many years.

Thank you all so much for downloading what I have shared and for all your lovely comments and emails down the years, you have kept me motivated and kept me going.

I'm now at the stage where I've literally shared all of my PIL/Pistols and post PIL/post Pistols material with you all.

All I have left is a lot of partial gigs and/or poor quality recordings.

I'm a completest and I know a few of you out there are the same as me , so I'll share the last few PIL recordings that I have in my collection. But I warn you - they are all pretty shite. 

I know there's still a few recordings out there in collections that I dont have so hopefully sometime in the future I will get copies and then share with you all.

I am so proud of the fact that since I started the blog I have met some wonderful people and I've managed to track down Master recordings from the original tapers that have not previously been shared. plus I have been lucky enough to track down a couple of dozen PIL gigs that no knew had been recorded.

I still go to gigs, in my spare time I help promote a lot of indie/punk/grunge bands that are around today. I still scan the audiences at gigs to see if i can spot someone recording the gig.

Acid Drops will continue for as long as I can find stuff to share. Its future will probably be in sharing audience recordings of gigs from the current indie scene in the UK, I hope these gigs will be of some interest to some of you. 

To think, when I started my first blog, the Sex Pistols/PIL live resource, there were literally hundreds of bootleg/audience recording sharing blogs and now theres very few left.

I'll continue until the blog starts to lose its viewers. At the moment I still get 2-2500 views a month from all over the World, at its height the blog got 5k plus a month.

If anyone has any audience recordings they think may be of interest please email me at pilhead@gmail.com

Thank You each and everyone of you 

stay safe and healthy 

keep enjoying the music 

love and gratitude always 

Steve aka PIL Head 

PIL - Barrowlands, Glasgow - 7th May 1992

 

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PIL - Universal Amphitheatre, California - 7th November 1989

 here's a master recording from this gig from 1989

01. Warrior

02. Happy

03. This Is Not A Love Song

04. Home

05. Brave New World

06. Seattle

07. Open And Revolving

08. Fishing

09. Round

10. The Body

11. Same Old Story

12. Rise

13. Disappointed

14. Worry

15. Public Image

16. World Destruction

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PiL - Chicago, Riviera Theatre, USA, - 21st October 1989

 

1 Warrior

2 Happy

3 This Is Not A Love Song

4 Home

5 Brave New World

6 Seattle

7 Open & Revolving

8 Fishing

9 Round

10 The Body

11 Same Old Story

12 Rise

13 Disappointed

14 Worry

15 Public Image

16 World Destruction

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PIL - Perkins Palace, Pasadena - 2nd April 1988

 

01. Public Image

02. F.F.F.

03. Seattle

04. Home

05. Bags

06. Rise

07. Hard Times

08. Rules And Regulations

09. Angry

10. Open And Revolving

11. Holidays In The Sun

12. This Is Not A Love Song

13. The Body

14. World Destruction

15. Ease

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