John Lydon will bring his reconstituted Public Image Ltd. back to the U.S. for its first North American performance in two years this November when the band co-headlines the FunFunFun Fest in Austin, Texas — with more North American dates promised to be announced “as soon as we can.”
The band today announced it will play the festival Nov. 2; other acts on the bill include the reunited Run DMC, Santigold, Refused, Superchunk, Bob Mould performing Sugar’s Copper Blue, and X performing Los Angeles in full. Early-bird advance tickets are sold out, but the festival’s general on-sale begins today via its website.
PiL, which in late May released This Is PiL, currently has a handful of European festival and club dates booked for the summer, plus 15 dates in the U.K. and Ireland in late July and throughout August. The band has toured steadily since Lydon first resurrected his long-dormant post-Sex Pistols group in December 2009.
Public Image Ltd. tour dates:
July 21: Rock in Idrho, Milan, Italy
July 27: Impact Festival, Bemowo Airport, Warsaw, Poland
July 28: Music Event One, Rochester Castle Grounds, Rochester, UK
July 29: Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
July 31: O2 Academy, Bournemouth, UK
Aug. 1: Sub 89, Reading, UK
Aug. 3: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, UK
Aug. 4: Rebellion Festival, Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, UK
Aug. 6: O2 Academy, Newcastle, UK
Aug. 7: HMV Ritz, Manchester, UK
Aug. 9: Lokerse Feesten, Lokeren, Belgium
Aug. 11: HMV Forum, London, UK
Aug. 12: Forum, Hatfield University, Hertfordshire, UK
Aug. 13: O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
Aug. 15: Concorde 2, Brighton, UK
Aug. 16: Concorde 2, Brighton, UK
Aug. 18: Beautiful Days Festival, Escot Park, Devon, UK
Aug. 17-19: Summer Sundae, De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, UK
Nov. 2: FunFunFun Fest, Austin, Texas, USA
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Video: John Lydon launches ‘Lollipop Blog,’ discusses PiL’s ‘buffalo of freedom’
- Public Image Ltd. to tour North America later this year in support of ‘This Is PiL’
- Video: Jah Wobble and Keith Levene revisit PiL with ‘Metal Box in Dub’ in London
- Video: Public Image Ltd., ‘One Drop’ — lead single off upcoming ‘This Is PiL’
- Public Image Ltd.’s ‘This Is PiL’ cover art, deluxe edition live DVD revealed
- Public Image Ltd. sets May 28 release for ‘This is PiL,’ unveils EP tracklisting
- Video + setlist: Public Image Ltd. reunites in Birmingham, 1st concert in 17 years
