What you may need to know.
1. The Sex Pistols cook up an explosive concoction of incredibly marketable anarchy for a disaffected generation in these new short trailers for Danny Boyle’s Pistol.
2. The FX limited series will make its streaming premiere in full on May 31, exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. Disney+ will host all six episodes in other territories.
3. Toby Wallace stars as Jones with Anson Boon as Johnny Rotten, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, and Christian Lees as Glen Matlock rounding out the band. The Queen’s Gambit’s Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays the band’s manager Malcolm McLaren and Westworld’s Talulah Riley is his partner in life and crime Vivienne Westwood, Game of Thrones vet Maisie Williams is punk icon Jordan, and Iris Law will make her screen debut as Soo Catwoman.
4. At its center is a young, charming, illiterate, kleptomaniac – a hero for the times – Steve Jones, who became in his own words, the 94th greatest guitarist of all time. The story follows Jones’ often-harrowing 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol.
5. First announced last March, Pistol received heavy pushback from Johnny Rotten, born John Lydon, who referred to the series as “the most disrespectful shit I’ve ever had to endure” and threatened legal action against what he considered to be an unauthorised series.
6. On the basis of a licensing agreement established in 1998, Jones and Cook went after Lydon after he refused to grant FX permission to use the band’s music in Pistol, despite the “majority rules basis” the agreement lays out.
7. John Lydon sold his rights to control the use of these songs in the 1990s in return for money, Jones and Cook said in a statement. The majority rule agreement existed as a result – so no outside party could dictate the use of the band’s music.
8. According to the two members, Lydon was offered meetings with Boyle and showrunner Craig Pearce but declined to be involved.
Andy’s verdict: Old punks never die!
Release: Hula on May 31.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JcNVaKgkXE
Punk distilled into 6 episodes on Disney+….
….and with that short proclamation ladies & gentlemen the final ember of the 4396 years of human civilisation was extinguished
Hehehehehehe
Rubbish.
I was there for the real things. Ladyparts.
Punks are 60 year old accountants now. When was the last time you gobbed on a guard?
Nobody cares about poetry anymore. Nobody buys poetry anymore. Irish poetry ended with Kavangh, those left in his wake failed to pick up from where he left off.
Knowing you Sid Vicious, Knowing me Louis Partridge. A-haaaaaaaaaaaa!