Intercourse Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and authentic frontman John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, haven’t shared the stage because the band’s 2008 tour. Nor have they spoken to at least one one other since.
In a brand new interview, Jones revealed that he’s been estranged from the singer for nicely over a decade — since that ’08 tour — and the guitarist isn’t wanting to patch issues up.
“I haven’t spoken to him in years,” Jones mentioned on the Rockonteurs podcast (watch beneath). “2008 was the final time I spoke to him. We did 30 exhibits round Europe. We did a bunch of festivals and all that, Japan, Australia. We ended up at Hammersmith Odeon, Hammersmith Apollo, after which we had another present within the Basque nation and that was it.”
He continued, “I used to be executed after that, no extra. An excessive amount of. Too outdated, an excessive amount of, not sufficient executed.”
The 2008 exhibits adopted occasional one-off performances and the excessive profile “Filthy Lucre” reunion tour in 1996, with the Jones-Lydon model of the Intercourse Pistols being in any other case non-existent within the intervening years since their first breakup in 1978. And contemplating Lydon sued his former bandmates over the Pistol TV sequence, that seems to be the top of it.
In the meantime, Jones has revived the Intercourse Pistols alongside drummer Paul Prepare dinner and bassist Glen Matlock, tapping UK punk singer Frank Carter (of Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes) to take over Johnny Rotten’s place on lead vocals. The reunion has been warmly obtained, with the group having accomplished a sequence of exhibits earlier this 12 months.
“That is totally different,” Jones mentioned of the reunion. “It’s a distinct vibe. Evening and day.”
Praising Carter, Jones mentioned: “He doesn’t attempt to be John. It’s simply enjoyable. You recognize what I imply? And it comes throughout as enjoyable. Plus we’re enjoying it the way it needs to be performed. And you bought this lunatic leaping round in all places. And he brings an enormous ingredient to the enjoyable a part of it.”
Jones added that extra exhibits with Frank Carter are presently deliberate for 2025. “We’re going to go on the street subsequent 12 months,” mentioned the guitarist.
The truth is, Intercourse Pistols That includes Frank Carter had been simply introduced as a part of the lineup for the 2025 version of the UK’s huge Obtain pageant in Donington Park in June.
In the meantime, Lydon, who has made headlines together with his pro-MAGA stance lately, simply introduced a 2025 UK tour together with his band Public Picture Ltd (PiL).