Grumpy old rock stars of the week Part 2. He is just so cute and cuddly when he mouths off these days. John Lydon has managed to have a swipe at his old band, the Sex Pistols and also crack it at his reformed second band, Public Image Limited on stage over the weekend. First up, he had a go at the then controversial band name, the Sex Pistols, telling Ireland’s Evening Echo that “I know the lot of them were all messing around with names before I went there. To be honest with you, I never even liked the name Sex Pistols. I always felt like it sounded a bit twee. Mind you, if it had been left up to our bassist Glen, we would’ve most probably been called the Milky Bar Kids.”
Not content with that swipe at his former band mates, he then cracked it at his current Public Image Limited band mates at the Benicassim Festival in Portugal over the weekend leading to a very public onstage bust up. As the band finished playing ‘Religion’, Lydon indicated that they should keep going in a drawn out finish. Unfortunately his band mates didn’t notice his orders and finished playing the song as normal. This led Lydon to shout: “Keep on fucking playing!” into his microphone several times. His band mates stood around confused, while Lydon yelled at them to keep playing, after which they repeated the song’s ending before storming off stage without their front man. Left alone on stage, Lydon hit out at his band, dubbing them “Public Image Runaway Ltd,” before adding as a coda: “It looks like I’m all alone, as per fucking usual.”
