Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter have added six extra UK dates to their Anarchy In The U.K. tour this December, expanding the 50th anniversary run through Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Bristol.
Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will be back on the road with Frank Carter this winter. The new shows sit around already announced gigs in Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, and follow a 2025 that included Download Festival.
The extra dates are Leeds O2 Academy on Friday 4 December, Newcastle NX on Saturday 5 December, Liverpool Olympia on Saturday 12 December, Birmingham O2 Academy on Monday 14 December, Portsmouth Guildhall on Tuesday 15 December and The Prospect Building in Bristol on Wednesday 16 December.
Tickets for the new shows go on general sale on Friday 4 September at 10am. They are available via Live Nation.
The 50th anniversary of Anarchy In The UK falls on 26 November. Released in 1976, the single hit a Britain in the economic doldrums, tapped into a generation’s discontent and helped change music for good.
Paul Cook said: “With Anarchy, I think we tapped into a feeling of unrest around the country at the time. The message was pretty simple – just have a go and get out there and do whatever you want to do. It was a new world.”
Steve Jones added: “We’re having a blast – we’re like a well-oiled machine right now – and it’s been incredible to get out there with these songs we wrote 50 years ago. We love it. Frank’s a great frontman and really gets the crowd going. Every person in the audience loves these songs as much as we do and it’s an absolute pleasure to get out there and play them.”
1976 is widely treated as punk’s year zero. Sex Pistols set it off with a run of London gigs at The Marquee, The 100 Club, The Nashville and a residency at the El Paradiso strip club, before taking the songs around the UK. By May they were in the studio cutting the first tracks of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
Their 4 June 1976 gig at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall, and a second show weeks later, helped push members of Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Fall and Buzzcocks towards forming bands. By September’s 100 Club Punk Special they were leading a movement, and in October they signed to EMI before Anarchy In The UK went from underground outrage to the mainstream.
Cook remembers that first year as a scramble. “It was kind of like a commando raid. I don’t even think a lot of places knew we were playing there. We just turned up and set up. It was all a learning curve for us – getting out there and playing live – we were learning on the job.”
Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter, new dates
- Friday 4 December: O2 Academy, Leeds
- Saturday 5 December: NX, Newcastle
- Saturday 12 December: Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool
- Monday 14 December: O2 Academy, Birmingham
- Tuesday 15 December: Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth
- Wednesday 16 December: The Prospect Building, Bristol
Previously announced dates
- Monday 7 December: 3 Arena, Dublin
- Wednesday 9 December: Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
- Thursday 10 December: O2 Academy, Glasgow
- Friday 18 December: Brixton Academy, London
- Sunday 20 December: Eventim Apollo, London
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