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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sex Pistols legend John Lydon reveals he 'hates' Oasis' music and finds it 'difficult' to go to other people's gigs
has revealed he 'hates' Oasis' music and finds it difficult to enjoy himself at other people's gigs. The legendary rocker, 69, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk band the Sex Pistols, said he's likely one of the only British music stars who won't be attending the highly anticipated Oasis reunion shows. When asked if he would be going to see Noel, 58, and Liam Gallagher, 52, perform, he told The Sun: 'No. They're my mates but I hate their music. He added: 'It's very difficult for me to go to other people's gigs. People don't leave me alone and let me enjoy myself. 'I knocked it on the head a few years ago. I love dancing, you're enjoying yourself and some a*****e will stand right in front of you and waffle banal nonsense which is distracting you from the point and purpose.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Speaking to the publication from his UK tour with his band Public Image Ltd, John added that he loves Noel because he just 'says it like it is'. He also said that the Gallagher brothers make him laugh during interviews, describing them as 'witty' and 'on it in a working-class, quick-as-you-can way'. The interview comes after he opened up on the loss of his wife last month. The singer lost his beloved spouse of 44 years Nora Foster in April 2023 after a five-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. John, who was known as Johnny Rotten during his Sex Pistols days, had drawn an incredible amount of public sympathy following her death having selflessly cared for Nora full-time until her final hours. Now over two years after she passed, the extravagant singer has opened up on the 'agony' he felt as Nora suffered a painful death. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the 69-year-old said: 'The pain will never go away. She died painfully, suffocating. They call it the death rattle.' Recalling the moment doctors asked him whether they should prolong Nora's life, he added: 'I couldn't say "yes, stop". No, I fought for her life as hard as she fought for it. 'It's insane, and you don't know how to handle it (the death of a partner). And you can end up being really aggressive with people mollycoddling you. But you have to be full of rage to break out of it, or you'll end up as that sympathetic doddering old idiot that you know you would hate yourself.' The singer had previously admitted he 'always loved' Nora having met her in 1975 at a Vivienne Westwood clothes shop - 'there was an instant attraction,' he said. Following her death, John had 'wallowed in alcohol and sadness and self-pity,' he told Metro, but the singer has since come out of that struggle. He insists however that the agony of losing Nora will never go away. John is currently on his Not The Last Tour with his post-Sex Pistols band PiL (Public Image Ltd). Despite his grief, the artist insisted that the 28-date tour isn't a farewell but more a tongue-in-cheek dig at bands who falsely claim they're bowing out. 'The industry is riddled with artists claiming they're on their final tour but have already booked themselves for five years after,' he quipped. But while John is on his tour, his old band - consisting of Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock - are enjoying their own with new frontman Frank Carter. John previously blasted the Sex Pistols recent tour as 'karaoke', branding the group 'impossible to deal with'. The singer revealed he is indeed no longer on speaking terms with his old bandmates after they fell out over a Disney+ TV series he opposed. The dispute resulted in a High Court battle between John and the Sex Pistols over the use of the band's music in the series - which Rotten ultimately lost. John said he 'won't forget' that his old bandmates 'dragged him through the courts' while Nora was seriously ill. The Sex Pistols shot to fame after forming in 1975, but just three years later they had split up. Their only album together, Never Mind the B******s* - a UK number one - is now a staple of punk rock. The band - whose controversial legacy rests upon their anti-establishment values - famously called the Royal family 'fascists' in 1977's God Save The Queen. But in 1978, John formed Public Image Ltd, with the first line-up of the band including bassist Jah Wobble and former Clash guitarist Keith Levene. The group's lineup has changed several times over the last 40-plus-years with John remaining a constant member.
Perth Now
3 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
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
John Lydon doesn't like restaurants because he can't smoke there
John Lydon rarely goes to restaurants because he can't smoke in them. The Public Image Ltd frontman lives in Los Angeles and admitted he prefers his friends to visit him for lunch rather than go out somewhere because eateries don't allow cigarettes inside and the wildfires earlier this year has meant even more restrictions have been brought in. Discussing a typical lunchtime, he told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "If I'm seeing friends they'll come here as I've gone off the restaurants since all the smoking bans, and since the fires you can't even smoke outside now." The 69-year-old rocker's beloved wife Nora Forster died from Alzheimer's in 2023 at the age of 80, and since her passing, John has "lost inerest" in cooking, though he's slowly started to look after himself again. He said: "In the years leading up to Nora's death, I used to take great pleasure in considering her diet and preparing her breakfast, but since it's been just me, I've lost interest in cooking. "I went through a stage of just eating a tin of ravioli first thing, but a bit of time has passed now so I'm looking after myself better." The former Sex Pistols singer likes to wind down by listening to music, but sadly lost the majority of his record collection in a fire some time ago. He said: "I'll just play music at the end of the day, but not on Spotify, obviously. I love the physicality of a record although most of my collection got burnt in a fire in London. "Before she died Nora cancelled the insurance as she thought it was a waste of money, then six weeks later a spin dryer caught fire and burnt out the whole kitchen plus three quarters of my record collection." While John is usually in bed by 9pm, he doesn't necessarily go to sleep then as it is a good time for him to write new music. He explained: "I don't stay up late or go to bars or nightclubs – what's the point? I go to bed early, though that doesn't mean I go to sleep early. "I like to rummage through my thoughts before I finally pass out, then my thoughts gradually waft into dreams, which is when I write my best songs. "I babble thoughts into a tape recorder, then in the morning I'll replay it and be amazed by what was going on in my head."
Edinburgh Reporter
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Reporter
Review – Jah Wobble live ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It's a Saturday night in Edinburgh's Cowgate and the streets are buzzing with revellers. Jah Wobble walks on stage and gives a strongman pose while sporting a 'Dub Specialist' T-shirt. There will be no argument from the trade descriptions act there. For opening number Albatross the East-End Londoner plonks down in a seat with the Fender P like punk royalty. He was after all one of the originals and given his name by Sid Vicious because the late Sex Pistol couldn't say John Wardle. The set tonight is Metal Box in Dub which delves into Wobble's time with John Lydon in Public Image Ltd. The material allows Martin Chung and former Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist Jon Klein soon get to work on those choppy razor-like riffs. Watching them all lock into a groove is sublime. Memories finds versatile and jazzy keyboardist George King delivering flourishes reminiscent of Ray Manzarek from The Doors. Klein delivers something much closer to the jagged spirit of the original and together both styles complement each other well. Two young couples down the front dance as if their lives depended on it while older fans at the back nod along in approval. It's an arresting moment when Wobble stands up to deliver the opening speech from William Shakespeare's Richard III: 'Now is the winter of our discontent' he bellows into the mike. You could hear a pin drop as he conveyed the short spoken word performance with aplomb while throwing a few laughs in before the opening bass rumble of Poptones. The affecting circular riff fills the entire space as people begin to move and sway again getting lost in the moment. We are taken back to the autumn of 1978 and treated to two versions of PiL's first single Public Image. Fan favourite Swan Lake gets a roar of approval, the infectious dub groove with Klein's unorthodox style brings just the right amount of dissonance. An epic performance by a true punk original and genre-hopping pioneer. They don't make geezers like this anymore. Jah Wobble And The Invaders Of The Heart, at La Belle Angele PHOTO Richard Purden PHOTO Richard Purden Like this: Like Related
BBC News
20-03-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Obituary: Eddie Jordan, the flamboyant deal-maker of Formula 1
Eddie Jordan, who has died aged 76, was one of the most flamboyant Formula 1 team bosses in the sport's to wealth and notoriety at a time when motorsport was a kind of Wild West featuring many chancers and deal-makers, Jordan's outspoken, over-the-top personality stood was a rogue who was sometimes loveable, sometimes dodgy, and occasionally both at the same arrival in a location would commonly be marked by hearing a Dublin accent yelling across a crowd at someone, launching an expletive-laden rant full of insults, backed by a smile. The worse it sounded, the more it was an indication of his respect for the his early days, he sold salmon out of the back of a van in the Irish capital. The fast, witty sales talk he mastered there stood him in good stead throughout a motor racing career that had its share of success but was all too often a struggle to are the people whom Jordan betrayed along the way. But somehow his character flaws were largely indulged, and he was generally regarded with when behaving badly, he had a warmth and humour that made it hard not to like him - although very few would have completely trusted him. Drummer, bank clerk, kart champion, team owner There was also a rock'n'roll aspect to his character. He played the drums in a band and had many associates in the music industry including John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd, and Boyzone's Shane founded a Formula 1 team out of nothing, built it to win races, and even in one heady year challenged for the championship. But he could not survive for long in the rarefied air at the summit of the sport, and the team sank even quicker than it course, when it was on its last legs and he sold it on, he made himself a fortune. He was always a canny businessman with an eye for a that is what attracted the eye of Bernie Ecclestone, F1's commercial boss throughout Jordan's career. Ecclestone, a former second-hand car dealer, recognised a kindred spirit and was a kind of guardian angel at times as Jordan navigated the choppy waters of being a privateer team first encountered motor racing on Guernsey, where he spent the summer of 1970 when a banking strike in Dublin meant he could not work in his job as a clerk. On his return to Ireland, he bought a kart, and won the Irish championship at his first attempt in moved up into motor racing in 1974, first into Formula Ford and then Formula 3, only to suffer a nasty accident at Mallory Park in 1976 and badly break a hospital, his hair fell out. On seeing this, his mother Eileen - by all accounts, a formidable woman - procured him a wig, and demanded he wear never appeared without one again. Although there was the odd time in the early days when future grand prix driver Gerhard Berger, a renowned practical joker, would sneak up behind Jordan with a high-pressure air line, and blow the hairpiece off his resumed his career, but by 1979 he was struggling to find money to pursue it, and he turned to team ownership. 'Welcome to the Piranha Club' Eddie Jordan Racing achieved considerable success in F3 and F3000 through the 1980s. And he helped launch the career of many top-level drivers including Eddie Irvine, Johnny Herbert, Jean Alesi, Martin Brundle and Damon the end of the decade, he had his sights on F1. He hired engineer Gary Anderson to create the car, and he and his small team produced the Jordan 191, an elegant design now regarded as one of the most beautiful grand prix cars in having two journeyman drivers in Italian veteran Andrea de Cesaris and Belgian novice Bertrand Gachot, the team immediately punched above their weight with a series of eye-catching performances. But the defining moment of the year came at the Belgian Grand needed a replacement for Gachot, who had been sent to jail in the UK for using CS gas in an altercation with a London taxi driver. Mercedes offered him £150,000 to field their protege Michael Schumacher. The German was an immediate is regarded as one of the world's most demanding circuits, and Schumacher had never driven around it before. Yet he qualified the car seventh - four places and more than 0.7 seconds ahead of De Cesaris.A clutch failure on the first lap caused Schumacher's retirement, but Jordan left Spa optimistic about what could be for his team with this brilliant young driver in the cockpit. The problem was, Jordan had not tied down Schumacher properly, and the rival Benetton team swooped, with a little help from Ecclestone - who knew about Jordan's financial difficulties as they navigated their first season, and wanted this obvious new star in a more successful, stable and secure the next race, the Italian Grand Prix, Schumacher was a Benetton driver. McLaren boss Ron Dennis sympathised, after a fashion, with Jordan, saying to him: "Welcome to the Piranha Club." The phrase has entered the lexicon, so perfect is it in summing up the ruthlessness of the F1 business desperate need of a cash injection, Jordan switched from his off-the-shelf Cosworth engine to a factory deal with Yamaha for its V12 for the engine was heavy, thirsty and unreliable, and a difficult season followed before Jordan ditched the Yamaha for a privateer Hart Barrichello became a fixture in the cockpit, as the Brazilian brought a handy budget along with his obvious talent. For 1994, he was joined by Northern Ireland's Irvine, who had made a headline-grabbing debut in Japan at the end of outspoken, insouciant character fitted well with the team. In Suzuka, he had un-lapped himself on race leader Ayrton Senna's McLaren while the pair battled HIll's Williams in the Irvine's lippy dismissiveness when confronted by Senna complaining about the incident after the race led the three-time champion to punch him. When Jordan were in title contention Jordan earned himself a tidy packet by selling Irvine to Ferrari to join Schumacher at the end of 1995, and soon a series of dominoes started to fall that made Jordan major contenders for a had taken works Peugeot engines for 1995 when they were cast off by McLaren after just one season. That helped them attract a major title sponsorship from tobacco company Benson & Hedges. Funding changed from being desperately sought to something that could be used for 1997, Jordan wanted Hill, after he was dumped by Williams despite winning the world title at the end of 1996. Hill demurred, and made the error of joining Arrows he did sign for 1998, replacing Giancarlo Fisichella as the team-mate of Ralf Schumacher, younger brother of Michael, with whom Hill had fought tense title battles in 1994 and with Hill, Jordan had also secured a supply of Mugen Honda engines, more powerful and reliable than the Peugeots, and the services of highly regarded designer Mike a disappointing start, Anderson left mid-season, and the team began to gain in competitiveness. At a wet Belgian Grand Prix, after Michael Schumacher crashed out in his Ferrari after colliding with David Coulthard's McLaren, the Jordan drivers found themselves running one-two, Hill in the lead. Jordan avoided a potential on-track drama by telling them to hold position, but created an off-track decision led to a visit from an unhappy Michael Schumacher to tell Jordan he had been unfair not to let his brother race for the win - ironic, considering the German's status as Ferrari's number 1999, Ralf Schumacher was tempted away by Williams, and their driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen went the other way. It became Jordan's most successful Hill faded into uncompetitiveness, Frentzen won two races and emerged as an unlikely title contender, but a bizarre retirement when leading the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring ended their team had found a clever - and dubious - way to use anti-stall as launch control. But Frentzen forgot to turn off the system as he left the pits from his stop for fuel and tyres, and that triggered a safety system that cut the engine. Jordan were never to be so competitive again. How Jordan made one last big deal Over the succeeding years, Anderson rejoined, drivers came and went, there were fights over engine supply, and the money began to dry up. But there was one more win - for Fisichella in the chaotically wet Brazilian Grand Prix of Kimi Raikkonen was declared the winner after a massive crash brought the race to a halt, but the officials had missed that Fischella had actually been leading at the crucial point - and the trophy was handed over at a ceremony at the following race in troubles worsened in 2004 and late in the year Ecclestone introduced Jordan to the Canadian businessman Alex Shnaider. Six weeks later, in January 2005, the team was sold for $ deal made Jordan secure for life, but on the day he signed it he was in tears in the office of commercial director Ian Phillips, who had been with the team from the years later, Jordan was back on the scene as an outspoken television pundit for BBC Sport, after the corporation won back the rights to F1, and he developed a reputation for being involved in breaking big included Michael Schumacher's return to F1 with Mercedes in 2010, and that Lewis Hamilton was bound for the same team for 2013. In truth, the Hamilton story was more collaborative than was admitted, to protect sources, and Jordan's involvement was not as singular as was presented at the stayed on board as coverage switched to Channel 4 from 2016, albeit appearing with decreasing regularity. But, deal-maker as ever, Jordan was always working behind the scenes, and in 2024 he pulled his last master acting as the manager of his friend Adrian Newey, Jordan negotiated an exit from Red Bull for F1's greatest ever designer, and a five-year deal with Aston Martin for a salary that could reach £30m with add-ons and irony was unmissable - Aston Martin is the latest iteration of the team Jordan had founded. It had passed through various name changes and owners to end up with the Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, who has built a new factory on the site Jordan had used since long after the Newey deal was sealed, Jordan revealed in December 2024 that he was being treated for aggressive prostate cancer, though that did not stop him heading a consortium which bought London Irish rugby club in early is survived by his wife Marie, and their four children, Zoe, Miki, Zak and Kyle.
