15. Aug. 2008. 21.30.
Budapest Sziget Festival Main Stage
Óbudai Island
The most influential punk band of all time was formed in 1975. This year the Sex Pistols – with original members: Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook – will perform the first time in Hungary, on Sziget festival.
These guys that shook the foundations of starry-eyed, daydreaming seventies rock and knocked it all back down to earth, that is the ultimate and most influential punkrock band of all times are back. The four lads: singer Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), bassist Glen Matlock (who called in on Sziget two years ago and whose post had been taken over by Sid Vicious, this infamous Punk Idol bassist, who died of heroin overdose and actually couldn’t play guitar), guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook. One regular album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, and a bunch of odds and ends and soundtracks proved sufficient to shock and make UK citizens face the apathy and disappointment of British youth and the millions living from hand to mouth on the dole. The Pistols influence is firmly present in terms of both music and attitude to this very day. The foursome wrote and played the best and most popular songs of late seventies punk explosion. These dirty, angry, three-chord punk-anthems like Anarchy In The UK, God Save The Queen and Pretty Vacant really deserve the honour they’ve been given with the thirtieth anniversary of the first release. The Pistols reformed in the nineties for (as Rotten puts it with his good old sarcasm) „nothing but the money”. And finally the legend is playing live at Sziget 2008 after so many aborted attempts: Anarchy In Hungary!