Public Image Ltd, led by former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, have announced an additional date for This Is Not The Last Tour 2025, adding a show in Margate at Dreamland on 24th June.
Tickets for the show, which will take place at Dreamland’s Hall By The Sea, go on-sale this Friday 31st January – on John Lydon’s birthday.
Formed in 1978, the band has amassed 5 UK Top 20 Singles and 5 UK Top 20 Albums with their fusion of dance, folk, pop, rock and dub influences.
First active between 1978 and 1992, Lydon reactivated PiL in 2009 following a 17 year hiatus. Since then, the band has toured extensively and released a number of critically acclaimed albums including ‘This is Pil’ in 2012 and ‘What The World Needs Now…’ in 2015.
The current line-up comprises frontman John Lyndon, bassist Scott Firth and drummer Bruce Smith. The band last performed in the UK in September 2023, and following the death of Lydon’s lifelong friend and manager John Rambo Stevens, soon after the death of his wife Nora in Apil 2023, Lydon thought the band might not tour again.
Lydon says: “I thought that might be it. After losing Nora, and Rambo, I couldn’t see a way through. I’d already committed to the spoken word tour, this spring, and I never let anyone down – I always stick to my word – so I had to do those dates.
“The thing is, people were so overwhelmingly positive, and they asked me to tour PiL again. With so many people asking and with the band meaning so much to them, I couldn’t just stay on my sofa and not tour – tempting though that obviously is.”
With hits including ‘Rise’, ‘This Is Not A Love Song’, and ‘Don’t Ask Me’, Public Image Ltd continue to shape the post-punk genre. In 2011 the band was awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution To Music’ at the Mojo Honours List.
General sale: Friday 31 January 2025, 10am at Ticketmaster
Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult over 18.
these people were rubbish nearly 50 years ago , whats changed ?
Sex pistols were great much better than your over produced cleaner than clean boy bands and plastic groups of today.
Dreamland music ,where most of the artists are approaching retirement or older,any way the music should indoors so the locals don’t have to suffer every weekend from spring to autumn
Clearly you missed the bit in this article which confirms this particular show WILL take place indoors (in the Hall By The Sea)…
I would say only half of the bands listed as on this year are oap age- many are too young g fir be to have heard of them. And those who are of an older generation sell out most of the times so……
I was an impressionable 13-year-old when Punk emerged, and I still hated it (and hate it even more now).