LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Reunited punk rock icons the Sex Pistols will warm up for their English tour with a private club show in Los Angeles on Oct. 25, a gig that will mark their first public performance in four years.
The quartet will play the Roxy Theatre, a Sunset Strip venue with room for about 500 people. After that, they begin a four-night stand at London's Brixton Academy, beginning Nov. 8, followed by a show in Manchester.
The Sex Pistols were one of the best-known English rock bands to emerge from the short-lived punk revolution in the mid-1970s. Four bored kids with limited musical ability, they swore on live television, got beaten up and perfectly captured the economic malaise sweeping Britain. "Never Mind the Bollocks," powered by such caustic singles as "Anarchy In The UK" and "God Save The Queen," topped the U.
K. charts in October 1977. But the band broke up the following January during a disastrous American tour.
Punk rock figurehead Sid Vicious, who had replaced Matlock, died of a drug overdose in 1979.
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