Tag: Public Image Ltd.

Like Totally Music Festival with Public Image Ltd. canceled after The Bangles drop out

Like Totally Music Festival with Public Image Ltd. canceled after The Bangles drop out

The ’80s-themed Like Totally Music Festival that was scheduled for Saturday at Huntington State Beach south of Los Angeles was canceled today, two days after co-headliners The Bangles dropped out and after organizers failed to provide proper safety documentation for the stage. Full details here.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Dave Kendall and John Lydon in Tijuana — watch full 2-hour episode

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Dave Kendall and John Lydon in Tijuana — watch full 2-hour episode

Finding a full episode of MTV’s “120 Minutes” on YouTube is an increasingly impossible task. That’s why we were thrilled when a sharp-eyed Slicing Up Eyeballs reader recently pointed us to a trove of episodes uploaded to the Internet Archive — including one of our all-time favorites.

This week’s new releases: Public Image Ltd. box set, Soul Asylum expanded reissue

This week’s new releases: Public Image Ltd. box set, Soul Asylum expanded reissue

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s titles include a massive new box set from Public Image Ltd. and an expanded reissue of Soul Asylum’s second album.

PiL to bring ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ 40th anniversary tour to North America this fall

PiL to bring ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ 40th anniversary tour to North America this fall

John Lydon will bring Public Image Ltd. back to North America this fall for an 18-date run as he commemorates his post-punk group’s 40th anniversary with a new documentary, giant box set and a world tour all bearing the name “The Public Image is Rotten.” See the full tour dates right here.

Watch: Trailer for ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ — new documentary on John Lydon’s PiL

Watch: Trailer for ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ — new documentary on John Lydon’s PiL

he new documentary “The Public Image is Rotten” — chronicling John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd. — will screen in theaters in the U.K. and Europe this summer and then North America this fall, according to the band. And here’s your first taste of the project, via the trailer here.

PiL details massive ‘The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From The Heart)’ box set

PiL details massive ‘The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From The Heart)’ box set

Public Image Ltd. this week revealed the tracklist of its upcoming new box set, a massive 7-disc collection called The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From The Heart) that collects singles, B-sides, rarities, 12-inch mixes, unreleased material, and live sets both on CD and DVD. See the full tracklists right here.

Public Image Ltd. to release ‘Album’-era live set on double LP for Record Store Day

Public Image Ltd. to release ‘Album’-era live set on double LP for Record Store Day

Public Image Ltd. will release a 14-track live album that was recorded in 1986 — and previously only available on CD as part of the super deluxe reissue of Album — as a double-LP vinyl edition with a bonus “Concert” poster next month for Record Store Day. Full details and tracklist here.

Public Image Ltd. to mark 40th anniversary with tour, ‘Rotten’ documentary and box set

Public Image Ltd. to mark 40th anniversary with tour, ‘Rotten’ documentary and box set

John Lydon’s reactivated Public Image Ltd. will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with tours of the U.K., Europe and Japan, along with the release of a new documentary and a career-spanning box that are both titled “The Public Image Is Rotten,” the band announced today. See those tour dates here.

Listen: Ministry releases (mostly) full show from ‘In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up’

Listen: Ministry releases (mostly) full show from ‘In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up’

Ministry has released a new live album on Bandcamp — with a vinyl edition following in September — that, while not advertised as such, is taken from the same 1990 concert that spawned the six-song In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up live album and companion home video release.

Vintage Video: Watch Public Image Ltd.’s VHS-only ‘Anarchy Movie 85’ concert film

Vintage Video: Watch Public Image Ltd.’s VHS-only ‘Anarchy Movie 85’ concert film

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present the out-of-print, oft-bootlegged Public Image Ltd. concert film “Anarchy Movie ’85,” which only ever was released officially on VHS in Japan. This VHS transfer has surprisingly great picture and audio quality.

Shriekback launches Kickstarter to help fund first live dates in nearly 25 years

Shriekback launches Kickstarter to help fund first live dates in nearly 25 years

Shriekback — self-described “weirdshit danceband, now very old indeed” — is planning to play live for the first time in nearly 25 years, and is soliciting fans to help fund a U.K. and European tour with the promise that, if successful, a North American outing could follow by summer 2018.

Keith Levene to finish PiL’s ‘Commercial Zone,’ release album ‘the right way’

Keith Levene to finish PiL’s ‘Commercial Zone,’ release album ‘the right way’

Keith Levene, founding member of both The Clash and Public Image Ltd., plans to resurrect what was to be PiL’s fourth album —1984’s Commercial Zone, released in two different incarnations — and “enhance it with original material,” finishing the album 30 years later.

John Lydon joins North American arena tour of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

John Lydon joins North American arena tour of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

John Lydon will tour North American arenas this summer, but not with Public Image Ltd. or the Sex Pistols — no, the erstwhile Johnny Rotten will play King Herod in a new touring production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” that also will feature members of Incubus, *NSYNC and Destiny’s Child.