It looks like Sex Pistols and Frank Carter are playing a tiny secret London show – here’s how you can get in
Sex Pistols and Frank Carter have seemingly announced an intimate London show for next week – you can find all the details below.
The band reformed last year with Carter, of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Gallows, replacing John Lydon as frontman. They played two small gigs at Bush Hall in the capital before embarking on an autumn UK tour.
Now, Sex Pistols are gearing up for a performance at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall on March 24 as part of this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concert series. They’ll then take to the stage at Download Festival 2025 in the summer.
Today (March 12), an announcement went live for a show from a “mystery group” at the 350-capacity 100 Club in central London next Friday (March 21). It looks like this could serve as a warm-up for Sex Pistols’ TCT gig the following week.
According to the poster, the unknown group in question “will be known as The SPOTS”. You can see the artwork here:
This was a name adopted by the original Sex Pistols – an acronym for “Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly”. They used the pseudonym to book shows in 1977, when it was likely that police would have shut down Sex Pistols gigs as the band faced intense media scrutiny.
Additionally, Sex Pistols played at the iconic 100 Club back in 1976 as part of a two-night ‘Punk Special’ event.
A ballot for the mystery SPOTS show opened at 12pm GMT today (Wednesday March 12). You can enter here until 12pm GMT this Friday (March 14). Ticket purchases are limited to two per customer.
Elsewhere, promoters Live Nation UK have shared the news on social media.
In other news, Pistols guitarist Steve Jones has said it “wasn’t even worth asking” John Lydon to participate in the band’s reunion shows. He also told NME recently that the group would soon be hitting the road in the US.
Elsewhere in the interview, Jones was asked whether he would ever get back in touch with Lydon. He replied: “Who knows? You never know…” Later, Lydon claimed in a separate NME interview that his estranged bandmates hadn’t reached out following his wife’s death. “They’re dead to me,” he said. “They’re poison.”
The PiL singer also shared his thoughts on Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook, and their decision to hit the road with Carter acting as frontman.
“It’s almost malicious in its intent,” he told NME. And it’s karaoke – that’s all it will ever be. Bloody hell, The Three Stooges in that band have had how many years to write some new songs? That’s what I’d like to hear.”
As for Sex Pistols’ forthcoming date at the Royal Albert Hall, Jones told NME in January: “It’s a good cause. Selfishly, I wanna do it because I’ve never even been to the Royal Albert Hall. Not even to see any other bands, which is bizarre. So I’m excited about that.”
When asked if he thought the comeback with Carter would have gone down as well as it did, he responded: “None of us knew. Frank was the first singer we [tried], because me, Cookie and Glen wanted to play. It just worked straight away. He’s a lot younger than us. He’s 40, so he has all that energy and us old farts can just jam at the back! It was so much fun and people loved it, and I loved looking at people loving it.
“I was ready to throw it in, touring and all that. I couldn’t care less. But with Frank, it just made it easy. We all get along. There’s no aggro. It’s just fun!”
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Tom Skinner
NME
