Public Picture Ltd. have introduced a run of UK tour dates going down this winter. Take a look at the main points under.
The brand new dates come as an extension of the group’s ‘This Is Not The Final Tour’ dates, which had been introduced on the finish of final 12 months and have thus far seen them play throughout the UK since Might.
Now, John Lydon and co. have introduced extra exhibits to be added to the run, all going down on the finish of the 12 months and starting of 2026.
New exhibits kick off on December 27 with an evening on the O2 Discussion board in London, and proceed over the subsequent two nights with stops at Manchester’s O2 Ritz and Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Corridor.
Dates proceed within the new 12 months, with back-to-back slots at Swindon’s Meca and Swansea’s Patti Pavilion on January 3 and 4 respectively, and wrap up with stops in Cambridge, Frome and Coventry on the sixth, seventh and tenth.
“Deal with your self to a Rotten Christmas and New 12 months,” the singer (who previously fronted the Intercourse Pistols underneath the title Johnny Rotten) wrote, saying the exhibits.
Tickets are on sale now. Go to right here for tickets and extra data, and discover a listing of upcoming PiL exhibits under.
Public Picture Ltd’s 2025/6 UK tour dates are:
AUGUST
15- Cork, Metropolis Corridor
16 – Belfast, Placing The Quick In Belfast
DECEMBER
27- London, O2 Discussion board [NEW]
28 – Manchester, O2 Ritz [NEW]
29 – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Corridor [NEW]
JANUARY
3 – Swindon, Meca [NEW]
4 – Swansea, Patti Pavilion [NEW]
6 – Cambridge, Cambridge Junction [NEW]
7 – Frome, Cheese & Grain [NEW]
10 – Coventry, Empire [NEW]
Earlier than the 2025 tour dates kicked off this spring, the post-punk band final carried out within the UK in September 2023 earlier than embarking on a run of European dates the next month. These exhibits got here in help of PiL’s eleventh and most up-to-date studio album, final 12 months’s ‘Finish Of World’.
The frontman would later say that he thought the group wouldn’t tour collectively once more, following the loss of life of his lifelong pal and supervisor, John Rambo Stevens in December 2023, and the loss of life of his spouse, Nora, that April.
His thoughts was modified by the help he obtained from followers when he undertook a spoken phrase tour. “The factor is, folks had been so overwhelmingly optimistic, they usually requested me to tour PiL once more,” he mentioned. “With so many individuals asking and with the band which means a lot to them, I couldn’t simply keep on my couch and never tour – tempting although that clearly is.”
Earlier this 12 months, to coincide with the exhibits, the singer designed a brand new emblem for the band. The unique one, has develop into an iconic image in post-punk music and options the acronym ‘PiL’, stylised with a lowercase “i” to depict the road the place the capsule breaks.
The brand new emblem was set to symbolise “a brand new starting” for the band, and reimagined the unique design in a diamond form with a extra jagged font. It additionally got here amid a authorized battle between Lydon and photographer and designer Dennis Morris over the emblem.
