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The Sex Pistols have announced that they are reforming for a one-off concert in November at London's Brixton Academy. Timed to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary re-release of their seminal album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, the concert date will be preceded by the re-issue of singles Anarchy In The UK, God Save The Queen, Pretty Vacant and Holidays In The Sun.
Already music magazine NME have shown their support for the return of the remaining members - John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock - by gearing up their readers to get God Save the Queen to number one on the charts, a position it failed to reach when originally released in 1977. Banned by Radio One, it is one of music's most legendarily apocryphal tales that the chart was rigged by jittery regulators who felt the Queen might not be amused at having her Jubilee celebrations sound-tracked by a fevered anthem to monarchy bashing.
This will be the band's first live date since their Piss Off Tour in 2003, although, Lydon, Jones and Cook did reunite earlier this year in Los Angeles to re-record Pretty Vacant for a video game.

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I'll be there,legends of my generation.How funny that Mrs. O'Conor calls them "boorish illiterates"just after she makes two spelling errors..."GURN"
gurn, MK,
Brilliant. Top band who changed music history in their own little way should be seen live by a whole new generation so that they too can feel the energy.
Eilleen O'Conor in Spain should stay there, as she has NO idea what she is talking about.
Lindy, Torquay, Devon
I think it is great they still can do a show together. They might not have mattered to everyone but they mattered to some of us. If you dont like them i am sure there are many other more important things you can waste your time and engery one.
net, Boiling Springs, usa
Come back to L.A. We need a USA tour. It will sell out...
Butch, Castaic, CA
Not seen the Pistols since the Phoenix festival over 10 years ago and thats gotta be one of the most memorable nights of my life.
I so wanna be at Brixton in November.
Wak
Paul Walker, Chesterfield, England
they can still blow away the majority of bands out there with their live performances.they are all great musicians and have back catalogues to testify to this, especially the much overlooked matlock.biggest shame with these guys is ,why they wont record any new material together,,their biggest mistake ever.
get them in the studio,then get them on stage..
ezz, southampton, england
Awesome I love the Sex Pistols!!!
Magic Tom , london, England
THANK GOD.Something that isnt R&B,Lots of negative comments in other papers.Glad to see the Sex pistols are stll winding them up 30yrs on ,
D paterson, Glasgow, Scotland
Eileen O'Connor states it's "a sad reflection on what is happening to our country" from Cordoba , Spain, typical.
The most important band of the last thirty years, of course they "MATTERED"
john p, manchester,
Along with a few other bands of the time Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division ( New Order) They have all left impressions not only on the crowds that followed them in the late seventies, but their children and so on. it is indeed a sad reflection that we still have so many narrow minded people that still abhor this time in our musical development as a country , would they rather listen to the X factor types ( no offence to the talented people who participate)all day thats if they get it in Spain
T Mac, Dundee, Scotland
30 years on and they still raise peoples ire. If that is not proof of social influence way beyond the sum of their physical output, then I don't know what is. The Pistols (and punk in general) didn't reinvent rock music, but they sure gave it a good hard kick up the rump!
Good on 'em.
Darren, Sheffield , England
The fact that these talentless, dirty-minded louts are not only being welcomed back into the field of entertainment, but are being treated as if they actually MATTERED by a publication as prestigious as The Times is a sad reflection on what is happening to our country. Isn't there anyone out there who feels as disgusted as I do ar rge success of these boorish illiterates?
Eileen O'Conor, Cordoba, Spain
Well definitely more interesting than a Led Zep reunion
PeTe, Swindon, U.K.
briliiant, they r the original n that is the original line up, that coathanger viscious neve played on the album
hammers, london, england