Following a high demand for their forthcoming ‘This Is Not The Last Tour’, Public Image Ltd (PiL) have added four additional dates to their string of live shows in the UK next year.
Public Image Ltd have added shows in Torquay, Brighton, Warrington and Cheltenham to their already extensive tour around the UK, which will see the band take the stage in Bristol, Newcastle, Limerick, Sheffield, and Coventry and many more exciting locations.
The tour will take place over four months next year, from May to August and will occur alongside several festival appearances in the summer. The ‘This Is Not A Love Song’ performers will headline Blackpool’s Rebellion Festival, Stone Valley Festival in their South, Midlands and North variations of the festival, and the UK Sister event to Cruel World Festival, Forever Now, sharing a stage with Kraftwerk, Johnny Marr, Happy Mondays and Billy Idol. 2025 will also see PiL provide support for Stiff Little Fingers during their upcoming Belfast gig.
On sale today, Wednesday, December 18th from 10am.
Monday, May 26th, Torquay, Foundry, UK
Tuesday, May 27th, Brighton, Chalk, UK
Tuesday, July 1st, Warrington, Parr Hall, UK
Thursday, August 7th, Cheltenham, Town Hall, UK
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— Public Image Ltd (@pilofficial) December 18, 2024
Tickets for the additional shows went on general sale today, Wednesday 18 December at 10am GMT.
PiL are a post-punk band founded in the late-1970s, emerging from the disbandment of Sex Pistols in 1978. The initial lineup featured John Lydon as frontman, alongside former Clash member Keith Levene and school friend Jah Wobble. Their debut ‘Public Image’ set a standard for the group, gaining their acclaim as a top ten hit. Since then, as Lydon remains the only constant member throughout the group’s changing lineup, the band have remained renowned for their thought-provoking lyrics, experimental instrumentation, and fusion of rock and post-punk melodies.
The band have been met with a turbulent few years. Alongside the release of ‘End Of World’ in August 2023, which led to a tour of the album in the UK and Europe in late 2023, there was a marked degree of uncertainty for the band’s future, especially surrounding the occurrence of live shows, due to the personal loss frontman Lydon has faced during 2023. Lydon encountered an unimaginable degree of loss, following the passing of his wife Nora in April 2023, along with his friend and manager John Rambo Stevens who passed that December. The track ‘Hawaii’ from their recent release depicts the deep loss and desperate pain Lydon experienced due to losing his wife to Alzheimer’s. A clear standout track from the release as Pitchfork referred to the “melodic and wistful edge” of ‘Hawaii’ which “evokes life slipping away in a fog of morphine and sunshine”.
Lydon has stated on many occasions that the enthusiasm and support from fans is what has pushed the band to tour again in 2025. As the fans have created the momentum of demand for PiL’s upcoming tour, it will be no surprise if the band perform their most memorable hits and fan favourites during their ‘This Is Not The Last Tour’ next year.
The additional dates are as followed:
May 26 –Foundry, Torquay
May 27 –Chalk, Brighton
July 1 – Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
August 7 – Town Hall, Cheltenham
