PiL to play Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, USA, Friday April 16th, 2010
PiLOfficial.Com has
confirmed Public Image Ltd will play the 2010 Coachella Festival on April 16th. PiL will perform at the first day of the 3 day festival in Indio, California. This will be PiL's first North American show in 18 years!
After returning in December 2009 for seven monumental concerts in the United Kingdom–their first shows in 17 years–PUBLIC IMAGE LTD (PiL) are now set to play their first show in the United States in 18 years at the COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL on Friday, April 16 (opening day of the three-day event) in Indio, CA.
Cited as one of the most innovative and influential bands in music history, PiL return to a country where they enjoyed a special relationship throughout their career—and the Coachella date is set to be a stunning performance.
PiLOfficial.Com has
added further press reviews from the December UK Tour including this quote from The Guardian.
The Guardian F&M Playlist December 31st, 2009 Public Image Limited Religion II
PiL's pre-Christmas shows proved that John Lydon should not be remembered either as panto punk or eccentric butter salesman, but as arguably Britain's greatest musical adventurer of the last 30 years. By the time this song closed the set at stomach-churning volume, one could only wonder at the extraordinary severity and extremity of his vision. Michael Hann
After
being on sale instantly at the 2009 live shows PiL ALiFE CD's are
also still available to order for home delivery via the Concert
Live website.
You can now listen to Rise
- Live at Birmingham 2009 via PiLOfficial.Com. Or
via their MySpace page. Full track available.
See PiLOfficial.Com for full info, plus encore download info and tracklistings etc.
The PiL keyrings and posters which were on sale at the 2009
live shows are now available to order via the official PiL webstore.
All merchandise from
the tour, including t-shirts, is available.
January
1st 2010
The
previously mentioned John Lydon
Culture Show special debuts on
BBC4 this Tuesday, January 5th.
The show is an expanded version of the
10 minute PiL feature on The Culture Show
from December.
As well as additional footage, John talks
about 'Flowers of Romance', Shakespeare,
Mozart, and his childhood. The show will
be repeated on BBC4 and will also be available
on the BBC iPlayer service for 7 days. 'John
Lydon - A Culture Show Special', BBC4
Tuesday 5th January 22.30-23.00.
December
18th 2009
PiLOfficial.Com has
posted links to reviews and
pictures from PiL's triumphant
return. The band has been playing a 2
hour set covering
virtually every aspect of their career; plus
a few bonus John Lydon tracks including a
stomping version of 'Open Up'! PiLOfficial.Com has
posted the set list from
the first couple of shows on their news
page.
PiLOfficial.Com has
also launched an official PiL merchandisewebstore featuring
a variety of t-shirts, plus posters and
keyrings etc.
The first PiL tour in 17 years starts
tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15th, at the
Birmingham Academy. Insiders report
the band are sounding "absolutely
stunning" and judging
by the live TV performances, and from
John Lydon's recent comments in the press,
these shows are
set to be something very special.
Lu has apparently
stockpiled a variety
of weird and wonderful instruments. Bruce
is sounding rock solid. Apparently Scott
Firth settled into the band straight away
and they are really gelling (he was pictured
on The Culture Show with a stand-up bass
during 'Religion' which will be something
new). John
Lydon has real fire in his
belly and sounding as good as he ever has.
It's been a long, long17 years,
but the Public Image are back...
PiLOfficial.Com has
mentioned a "lengthy and varied
set, with a few surprises" and
Fodderstompf can't wait!
We are
fully expecting fan reviews from every gigso
don't let us down! Submit
reviews here…
John
Lydon – with PiL performing 'Public
Image' live
at rehearsals – was interviewed on Sky
News, Saturday,
December 12th. You can watch the interview
via the Sky
News website. "Goodbyee Skyy!"
Fodderstompf
reader Edward
Thompson has posted some pictures
on his blog of
the 3 CD remastered 'Metal
Box'
– which along with 'Plastic Box' – is re-released
this week.
December 5th
2009
Not
long now… Judging by Thursday's
excellent appearance on The Culture Show
PiL fans are in for a real treat. Get some
PiL
for Xmas!
Absolute
Radio are airing a John Lydon
special tomorrow night, Sunday, December
6th, at 9pm. John will be picking the
music and speaking about PiL. Absolute
Radio, John Lydon Hour.
Look out for PiL on Sky News in
the coming days. PiLOfficial.Com have
announced the band were filmed performing
'Public Image' and 'This Is Not a Love
Song'.
PiLOfficial.Com has
also announced, that following on from Thursday's
superb appearance on The Culture
Show, BBC4 will be showing a special
extended version of the PiL
feature in January. The 30 minute
special will include an extended interview
and additional footage! The show debuts
on BBC4, January
5th 2010 at 10pm; and will also
be repeated.
PiL
have announced they will be releasing instant
live CD's from the December UK
tour. The
limited edition 4CD sets
will be available immediately after
shows, and via ConcertLive.co.uk.
3 discs will cover the live recording of
the gig, while a 4th bonus
disc will
include photographs of
the band and a
video interview (including
rehearsal footage).
"PiL live on CD instantly,
immediately, available after the gig.
Now, how good is that?" - John
Lydon
As previously
mentioned, PiL will be appearing on BBC2,
The Culture Show this Thursday at
7pm. John Lydon will also be appearing on
BBC1, The
One Show on Friday at 7pm.
PiLOfficial.Com also
report PiL will be appearing on the
BBC2, Culture Show next
Thursday,
December 3rd
where they were filmed performing 'Rise' and 'Religion';
as well as being interviewed...
Also see PiLOfficial for a new
picture of the band…
Virgin Records
are re-issuing 'Metal Box'
on CD on December 14th. The 'Plastic
Box' compilation is also re-released
the same day.
'Metal Box' will be re-mastered and -
like the original 1979 vinyl LP – come
as 3 separate discs. The 4CD 'Plastic Box'
compilation was first released as a limited
edition in 1999 and features 64 tracks
in total; spanning from 1978-1992. See Discography for
more info…
October
30th 2009
PiL have announced
2 new London dates at the
London, Electric Ballroom in Camden, North
London. Get get some PiL for Xmas!
London,
Electric Ballroom, December 22nd
2009
London, Electric
Ballroom, December 23rd 2009
(Tickets for original Brixton Academy
Show on December 22nd will be valid for
The Electric Ballroom Show on December
22nd, or maybe exchanged for the Brixton
Academy Show on December 21st)
September
29th 2009
Jah Wobble's autobiography – Memoirs
of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem – is
now available via Serpent's Tail Books,
priced £12.99.
Wobble will be having a spoken-word event
to launch the book this Sunday, October
4th, at The Roundhouse in Camden.
Tickets priced £6 are on sale now from The
Roundhouse website.
The same day sees him sign copies of the
book at Rough Trade East in Brick Lane.
The book has
received several high-profile reviews
including The
Independent and The
Metro newspapers.
Press Release:
Memoirs of a Geezer: The Autobiography
of Jah Wobble Music, Mayhem, Life.
"I'm Jah Wobble, a geezer. I come
from Stepney in East London. I'm one of
the chaps. I'm a totally different kettle
of Fish and I haven't got time for all
that nonsense."
Born John Wardle in Stepney, east London
on 11 August 1958, Jah Wobble has always
refused to play by the rules of the game.
As a teenager he was expelled from school
and later ended up at Kingsway College
of Further Education where he met John
Lydon and John Beverley (Sid Vicious).
Together with Lydon's old school friend
John Gray, they were the Four Johns and,
as legend has it, he got his nickname one
drunken night when Sid mumbled 'Jah Wobble'
at him. It stuck.
When he was just 18, Lydon asked Wobble
to join his first post-Sex Pistols band,
Public Image Limited (PiL - they were almost
called The Carnivorous Butterflies - Wobble's
suggestion), who are still cited as one
of the most influential bands of the era.
With his love of Miles Davis and obsession
with dub reggae (he collected imports from
a local east end electrical shop), he devised
the new bass guitar sound which defined
PiL's oeuvre. In 1980, after two albums,
Wobble left the band, sick of the 'dirty
stinking music business' to go solo.
Throughout Memoirs, Wobble tells it like
he sees it: his opinions of the establishment's
great and good from Malcolm McLaren ('a
deeply flawed individual') to Peter Gabriel
('as much a businessman as an artist')
to Brian Eno ('the ultimate music business
'player'') to Iain Sinclair ('he wasn't
even a Londoner') are refreshingly disrespectful.
In Memoirs, Wobble riffs on British class
politics, his London and the music industry
and smashes the myths surrounding birth
of the punk scene, setting the record straight
with an authentic insider's account of
its beginnings. (NB: Wobble never hit Sid
Vicious on the head with an axe, nor was
his first bass-play on Sid's guitar.)
John
Lydon was
interviewed in Friday's (September 25th) Yorkshire
Evening Post previewing December's
PiL Leeds show. You can read the full interview
via their website.
The official
PiL website has now launched
MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
Pages.
Pre-sale will be open to PiLofficial.Com
readers right up till General Sale starts
on Friday.
September
7th 2009
Public
Image Ltd Live 2009! Yes, you
read that correctly! In the 10 years
of Fodderstompf I never thought
I'd ever get to put PiL tour dates on
the site but today I can!
PiL will play 5 shows in
the UK in December,
starting at Birmingham Academy on Tuesday
December, 15th. The shows are to mark
the 30th Anniversary of 'Metal Box' but
the official information – via the newly
launched PiL
website – promises tracks from throughout
their career!
John Lydon will
be joined by former
PiL members Lu
Edmonds (Guitar
& Misc) and Bruce Smith (Drums), plus
new recruit Scott Firth (Bass). Tickets go on sale this Friday
11th at 9am, however, PiLOfficial.Com will
have a ticketpre-sale this week.
Public Image Limited
Live 2009
Birmingham, 02 Academy, December
15th 2009 Leeds, 02 Academy, December
16th 2009 Glasgow, 02 Academy, December
18th 2009 Manchester, Academy, December
19th 2009 London Brixton, 02 Academy, December
21st 2009
The
October issue of Uncut Magazine includes
a 3 page 'Making of ' feature on the 1984
Time Zone - World Destruction single.
John Lydon, Africa Bambaataa and Bill Laswell
were specially interviewed. The extensive
article reveals detailed information on the
background of the single and its recording;
plus further information on the recording
of 'Album' with Bill Laswell...
In recent interviews at The
Quietus and The
National Bill
Laswell also talks about
the single.
Jah
Wobble's autobiography – Memoirs
of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem – is
now available via his 30
Hertz website. The book is officially
published via Serpent's
Tail on September 24th (see News May 3rd
for more info).
Keith
Levene features heavily in the
new Slits biography: 'Typical
Girls? The Story Of The Slits'
by Zoë Street Howe; published by Omnibus
Press in July.
The book also reveals
Levene made a brief appearance on the
track 'Instant Hit' which was written
about him. Viv Albertine: "You
hear him at the end talking. He doesn't
know that. That little bit at the end
had been recorded at Ari's house with
a little tape recorder, he didn't know
that..."
Thanks to Karsten Roekens
September
2nd 2009
JohnLydon.Com today
announced there is to be an official
PiL website! The site is "coming
sometime" but you can check it out
now and sign up to their mailing list for
updates.
4 Men
with Beards – the US label who
re-issued 'Metal Box' on vinyl in 2006
– released another two PiL albums on
vinyl in the States earlier this year.
'Flowers of Romance'
(4M517) and 'Second Edition'
(4M518) were issued on 180 gram vinyl
on May 26th 2009.
Rhino Records in the
US also re-issued 'Album'
- again on 180 gram vinyl - on March 10th
2009 (RHI160438).
Thanks to Tim Bucknall
Jah
Wobble will be giving a spoken-word
performance at The Green Man
Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales,
on Sunday, August 23rd.
See Green
Man Festival website for more info…
The New
Yorker has a a retrospective blog feature
on the infamous PiL appearance on American
Bandstand, May 1980.
July
4th 2009
Keith
Levene has began relaunching
the MurderGlobal.comwebsite.
Check out Area 51 to hear new tunes or
Research to play Asteroids! The accompanying
blog at MurderGlobal.net also
makes mention of new releases…
"Keith is concentrating on his own
projects under the Murder Global banner
which is made up of a team of like minded
individuals. With new releases in the pipeline
and other innovative concepts, Murder Global
is a space well worth watching!" -
MurderGlobal, 2009
Allan
Dias DJ's
every Tuesday night at The Beauty
Bar, 231
East 14th Street, New York City. Allan is
a resident DJ at The Skinny Jeans Club Night. Thanks to Olé Koretsky
Martin Atkins' Pigface released
the new studio album 'Pigface 6'
via Full
Effect Records in June. This is the
first Pigface album not to be released
through Invisible…
Atkins will also be holding a retrospective
gallery show The
Religion of Marketing at The Metro
Gallery in Baltimore,
July 10th and 11th.
For further Atkins / Invisible
/ Pigface listings and news etc see
the Invisible
Community.
Thanks to Jonathan Childers
June
1st 2009
Jah Wobble appeared
with Gary Crowley on BBC 6Music last
Friday night, May 29th. In the the hour long
special Wobble picked a selection of tracks
and talked about his career; including meeting
John Lydon and recording 'Metal Box'.
He
also received his Songlines
Music Award live on air (see News May
3rd for more info…). The interview
is currently available via the 6Music
website and the BBC iPlayer service.
Car Ad
Music, Jah Wobble's 2004 download-only
album is finally available on CD via the
(newly revamped) 30
Hertz website.
30 Hertz Description: This album was recorded in the year 2005.
It was never Jah Wobble's intention to
release it on CD. It was to be a download
only album. Indeed up to now that’s exactly
what it has been. However due to public,
(and some private), demand here it is on
CD. This album is mix of South American
and African rhythms with jazz licks and
‘ambient North European swaths’ along with
some Nigerian ‘Ju Ju music’ influenced
Pedal Steel, (courtesy of the excellent
BJ. Cole).
A
review of Wobble and Jon Savage's spoken-word
appearance at
The Brighton Festival is
available via Drowned
in Sound.
May
3rd 2009
Jah
Wobble's autobiography – Memoirs
of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem – is
scheduled for a September release via Serpent's
Tail.
Amazon
Description:
Mercury-shortlisted musician, punk rebel
and genuine geezer, Wobble spills all in
his autobiography.
Written in his own unmistakable
voice, this is a frank and fascinating
account of a geezer’s
life in the music business. Jah Wobble
begins by offering the most authentic
insider’s account of the
beginning of punk rock yet written, but
there's much more to him than that.
His
is an eventful life, as the celebrated
ups – PiL’s The Metal Box,
90s hit Visions Of You with Sinead O’Connor – are
balanced by major downs – chronic
alcoholism and marital breakdown.
It begins
with an East End childhood in a London
barely recovered from the War and ends
with Wobble finally turning his back on
London that no longer feels like home.
Through the book Wobble tell it like he
sees it: his opinions of the great and
good from Malcolm Mcclaren to Peter Gabriel
to Brian Eno to Iain Sinclair are refreshingly
disrespectful.
Oh and if you ever wondered
how got his name, the answer is here: his
teenage pal Sid Vicious gave it to him
when he drunkenly slurred Wobble’s
real name, John Wardle.
Wobble will be
taking part in a spoken-word event
with Englands Dreaming author Jon
Savage at The Brighton Festival on
May 15th at Thistle Hotel, 4pm. See the Brighton
Festival website for more info.
Wobble also appeared on BBC Radio 6, Cerys
Matthews Show
on April 1st. And Radio 4, Inheritance
Tracks, March 28th. Both interviews can
be found via archive links on "The
List".
Songlines world-music
magazine have awarded Jah Wobble & The
Chinese Dub Orchestra their "Best
Cross-Cultural Collaboration".
See Songlines
interview with the worthy winner for
more info... "I’ve won? I’ve
never won anything in my life!"
John
Lydon appeared
on 'Queens of British Pop' (BBC1, April
1st) talking about
Kate Bush. The interview is
available via YouTube.
Martin
Atkins will
be bringing his TourSmart talk to
the UK in May-June. Dates are still
being confirmed. See tstouring.com for
more info... Pigface will also release
a new album.
Photographer Chester
Simpson has a wide selection of PiL pictures
available to view and purchase via his website.
His work includes rare interview and live
images from the 1980 US Tour, plus 1982/86.
Totally
Wired – Simon Reynolds
companion book to Rip
It Up and Start Again – features
an interview with Jah Wobble and two
of Simon's recent PiL review articles. Totally
Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews was
published in February by Faber and Faber.
Rock
Town Hall website were supposed to
interview Keith Levene a few months
ago. You can read all about the "official
non-interview" on their blog. In a
recent interview with Quietus.Com Mark
Stewart again claimed to be working with
Levene. Thanks to The Back Office
PiL and
Sex Pistols were the "Show Stoppers" on
yesterday's (Saturday May 2nd) Liz
Kershaw Show on BBC 6 Music. Fans were
invited to email song requests and gig reviews
etc. Safe to say Liz isn't a "P.I.L" fan
as she can't pronounce John McGeoch's name
and mixes up 'Annalisa' with female pop
star Anastacia... Thanks to Chumley
