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Perth Now
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
'I never stop writing!' John Lydon confirms new Public Image Ltd album is on the way
John Lydon is "constantly writing" for a new Public Image Ltd album. The 69-year-old music legend - who founded PiL in 1978 and has released 11 albums to date with the post-punk band - has promised new music is on the way, and he'll still be working on the material whilst on tour with the group this summer. Asked if a new LP is on the way, he told "Yeah, we will. Yeah. For the new album I'm constantly writing. When we're on a tour bus all that starts to happen. "I never stop writing. It's been like that all my life, since I learned to read and write when I was four, I just loved writing. I've got reams of ideas. "But I'd be lucky if out of 800 pages I could skim two lines. It's consistent and I might not be in that mind frame later on down the line." The new collection will be the follow-up to 2023's 'End of the World', and their fourth album since reuniting in 2009. The former Sex Pistols frontman revealed his lyrics are now inspired by "a sense of joy" rather than "wallowing in self-pity". He explained: "Life. Existence. A sense of joy in everything. I'm not a misery guts. I'm not one for wallowing in self-pity. "Obviously, I've had my moments in that, but that would not inspire me to put out an album of introspective mediocrity. This is not Peter Hammill here. "I find fun in everything, and humour. That creates intrigue and then I investigate my subjects until I can pen it accurately and properly. "There's no fantasy island in my writing; it's all based on experiences." John and the band are hitting the road this summer, and he insisted there is an unexpected secret to making PiL's live shows so good. He said: "Stage fright. I've read a lot of books about that, by Alec Guinness and those kind of actors who talk about stage fright and it really helped me when I was young. "It's a really valuable tool, because without that you won't have the inner stamina to do what you next on stage. You won't be prepared for it. "You have to basically s*** yourself, you do. I still do but I like that, the relief once I'm on stage, that's the reward. And then it's sink or swim." Public Image Ltd's 2025 tour dates: 12th June Dublin 3Olympia 13th June Limerick Dolan's Warehouse 22nd June Milton Keynes Forever Now Festival 24th June Margate Dreamland 26th June Hastings White Rock 27th June Newark Stone Valley Festival Midlands 28th June Oxford O2 Academy 1st July Warrington Parr Hall 3rd July Leicester O2 Academy 4th July Lincoln Engine Shed 5th July Portsmouth Guildhall 26th July Cardiff Depot 30th July Sheffield Leadmill 31st July Northampton Roadmenders 1st August Holmfirth Picturedrome 2nd August Coventry Empire 7th August Cheltenham Town Hall 8th August Durham Stone Valley Festival North 9th August Blackpool Rebellion Festival 15th August Cork City Hall 16th August Belfast Putting the Fast in Belfast, Custom House Square
Perth Now
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Limahl is releasing his first album in over three decades
Limahl "will be" bringing out his first album in "30 years" in 2026 or 2027. The 80s pop icon, who shot to fame as a member of the boy band Kajagoogoo and then carved out a successful music career as a solo artist, is proud of the last three singles he released - 'A Horse With No Name', a cover of rock band America's 1971 track, 'Still in Love' and 'One Wish for Christmas' - and they have motivated him to release a new LP. Limahl, 66, told "My last three singles have all - I think they've been a really good standard with really strong videos, and I feel like I can hold my head up high with those tracks, and it's actually encouraged me to do an album. "I've got some really great songs just sitting there waiting. So in '26, or '27, I will be coming back with my first album in, I don't know, 30 years." The star - whose most recent album 'Love Is Blind' was released in 1992 - spent "months" working away on his new single as he blended electronic-sounding beats with the strong songwriting from America in his rendition of 'A Horse With No Name' - which Limahl has said the song has acted as a "friend" in his life. The 'Too Shy' singer said: "I am so proud! You have no idea of the journey that the production has been through. I worked on it. I left it. I worked on it. I left it. I worked on it. I left it because, sometimes, you just get to the point where you just can't hear it anymore. "And then my sister and my partner, Steve, were both saying, 'Well, you've got to release this. You've got to release this.' "And finally, after enough space, I started working on the video. And that really emboldened me. It was so much fun trying to create an interpretation of those bonkers lyrics." Limahl took the plunge of releasing his first cover song because he wanted to "put my own stamp on it". The 'Never Ending Story' performer explained: "Well, I've always loved the journey of having this spark here. "And from nowhere. And then suddenly, in three months, I'm listening back to something that started here. And I'm going. 'Wow, wow! This is exciting.' Or, 'Oh, that's terrible! On the shelf with that!' "But you know, there is a challenge in doing a cover. And, you know, one of my favourite singers of all time, Luther Vandross. He was a great songwriter. But when he did covers, OMG, they were so good, he did a cover of Karen Carpenter's song, 'Superstar', and he brought his own stamp on it. "And that's what I've tried to do with Horse. Put my own stamp on it. initially. I thought, 'Well, I can't use a guitar, because a guitar drives the original. So I'll go. I'll sort of start electronic. I'll go contemporary electronic, and we'll see how that goes.'" Limahl's version of 'A Horse With No Name' is out now via Christopher Music.
