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Post by petrolino on May 13, 2022 23:51:30 GMT
'Pistol'
“I don’t even like listening to music in the car. But it would be ridiculous not to mention Kate Bush as someone who creates a powerful dreamscape and a great mood, but I also love Traffic, the pop textures of Marc Bolan, and all kinds of techno.”
- John Lydon, Far Out
'Jubilee Cloud' - Long John Baldry & Elton John
“My parents had a fantastic collection. It wasn’t just Irish folk tunes and accordion diddly-doos, there was early Beatles and lots of Cliff Richard too. The first record I would have ever wanted to buy was ‘Move It!’ by Cliff Richard. It was a really good song at the time and still is. Early Cliff was a riotous assembly of sorts, and he had moves that left a good impression on a five-year-old.”
- John Lydon, Far Out
'Move It!' - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
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Post by Zos on May 14, 2022 10:06:55 GMT
Appalling stuff from the trailers. Not sure who it's aimed at, those of us who were there will avoid it like the plague. Millenials tuning in for a laugh? No idea. Siouxsie's swastika armband I noticed has been removed from the "Grundy" reconstruction so I expect the usual revisionism especially given the "Disney" name.
Still, at least Jonesy will get a few Bob for his book which seems to have been bought up by Boyle purely to put together a TV show that has little to do with it.
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Post by petrolino on May 14, 2022 13:56:01 GMT
Appalling stuff from the trailers. Not sure who it's aimed at, those of us who were there will avoid it like the plague. Millenials tuning in for a laugh? No idea. Siouxsie's swastika armband I noticed has been removed from the "Grundy" reconstruction so I expect the usual revisionism especially given the "Disney" name. Still, at least Jonesy will get a few Bob for his book which seems to have been bought up by Boyle purely to put together a TV show that has little to do with it.
You might be in it. Which actor would you cast to play yourself?
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Post by Zos on May 14, 2022 15:23:18 GMT
Appalling stuff from the trailers. Not sure who it's aimed at, those of us who were there will avoid it like the plague. Millenials tuning in for a laugh? No idea. Siouxsie's swastika armband I noticed has been removed from the "Grundy" reconstruction so I expect the usual revisionism especially given the "Disney" name. Still, at least Jonesy will get a few Bob for his book which seems to have been bought up by Boyle purely to put together a TV show that has little to do with it.
You might be in it. Which actor would you cast to play yourself?
Someone who looked normal as most of us did, the revisionism will no doubt make out that everyone dressed like the "Bromley Contingent" though.(Siouxsie and her little gang)Pistols were always to an extent overrated, one great album which is largely Glam rock and the rest was notoriety and media panic. A much better film could be made about the bleakness of the period and how Pub Rock morphed into punk. It's the period of time and the boredom that was London '76/77 that should be the focal point, anything but McClaren who was a chancer riding his luck for 5 minutes. Anton Corbijn's "Control" should have been the template for these type of movies.
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Post by petrolino on May 14, 2022 18:54:43 GMT
You might be in it. Which actor would you cast to play yourself?
Someone who looked normal as most of us did, the revisionism will no doubt make out that everyone dressed like the "Bromley Contingent" though.(Siouxsie and her little gang)Pistols were always to an extent overrated, one great album which is largely Glam rock and the rest was notoriety and media panic. A much better film could be made about the bleakness of the period and how Pub Rock morphed into punk. It's the period of time and the boredom that was London '76/77 that should be the focal point, anything but McClaren who was a chancer riding his luck for 5 minutes. Anton Corbijn's "Control" should have been the template for these type of movies.
Surely they felt lucky when they had Danny Boyle approach them. He's one of Britain's best known film directors and has experience working on the 2012 London Olympics which was said to do wonders for the capital. This new tv show brings the band back in to focus for another Queen's Jubilee.
As for John Lydon, I'd have thought he'd have been all in with this latest business venture, setting his own protected brand issues aside, as Boyle's long been rumoured to be in the running to make a biopic of his main man, President Donald Trump.
Maganificent Money, Money, Mo-neeey ...
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Post by Zos on May 15, 2022 13:27:37 GMT
Someone who looked normal as most of us did, the revisionism will no doubt make out that everyone dressed like the "Bromley Contingent" though.(Siouxsie and her little gang)Pistols were always to an extent overrated, one great album which is largely Glam rock and the rest was notoriety and media panic. A much better film could be made about the bleakness of the period and how Pub Rock morphed into punk. It's the period of time and the boredom that was London '76/77 that should be the focal point, anything but McClaren who was a chancer riding his luck for 5 minutes. Anton Corbijn's "Control" should have been the template for these type of movies.
Surely they felt lucky when they had Danny Boyle approach them. He's one of Britain's best known film directors and has experience working on the 2012 London Olympics which was said to do wonders for the capital. This new tv show brings the band back in to focus for another Queen's Jubilee.
As for John Lydon, I'd have thought he'd have been all in with this latest business venture, setting his own protected brand issues aside, as Boyle's long been rumoured to be in the running to make a biopic of his main man, President Donald Trump.
Maganificent Money, Money, Mo-neeey ...
I think they have zero interest in the project apart from as a money earner and good luck to them. Buying Jones' book gave the film maker the right to ignore most of it and just focus on the events of 76/77. Can I also say that using photos of Lydon when his illness and medication caused him to balloon in weight are unnecessary, the gutter press jumped all over those photos at the time as a way to laugh at an ill man who was under enormous strain caring for his Alzheimer stricken wife (he still does). I'm no fan of the man but find the continued use of those photos all around the web to be pretty low.
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Post by petrolino on May 15, 2022 14:10:15 GMT
Surely they felt lucky when they had Danny Boyle approach them. He's one of Britain's best known film directors and has experience working on the 2012 London Olympics which was said to do wonders for the capital. This new tv show brings the band back in to focus for another Queen's Jubilee.
As for John Lydon, I'd have thought he'd have been all in with this latest business venture, setting his own protected brand issues aside, as Boyle's long been rumoured to be in the running to make a biopic of his main man, President Donald Trump.
Maganificent Money, Money, Mo-neeey ...
I think they have zero interest in the project apart from as a money earner and good luck to them. Buying Jones' book gave the film maker the right to ignore most of it and just focus on the events of 76/77. Can I also say that using photos of Lydon when his illness and medication caused him to balloon in weight are unnecessary, the gutter press jumped all over those photos at the time as a way to laugh at an ill man who was under enormous strain caring for his Alzheimer stricken wife (he still does). I'm no fan of the man but find the continued use of those photos all around the web to be pretty low.
All I've seen is people admiring the man's bright red t-shirt. Pretty snazzy, eh.
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Post by Zos on May 15, 2022 15:56:21 GMT
I think they have zero interest in the project apart from as a money earner and good luck to them. Buying Jones' book gave the film maker the right to ignore most of it and just focus on the events of 76/77. Can I also say that using photos of Lydon when his illness and medication caused him to balloon in weight are unnecessary, the gutter press jumped all over those photos at the time as a way to laugh at an ill man who was under enormous strain caring for his Alzheimer stricken wife (he still does). I'm no fan of the man but find the continued use of those photos all around the web to be pretty low.
All I've seen is people admiring the man's bright red t-shirt. Pretty snazzy, eh.
Anyone who takes his Trump thing at face value are likely to be disappointed. Lydon's always been a professional contrarian. as Jones points out in his book, Lydon used to be able to turn the "Rotten" character on and off but he seems incapable of doing that any more, he has to always be winding people up.
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Post by petrolino on May 15, 2022 16:57:11 GMT
All I've seen is people admiring the man's bright red t-shirt. Pretty snazzy, eh.
Anyone who takes his Trump thing at face value are likely to be disappointed. Lydon's always been a professional contrarian. as Jones points out in his book, Lydon used to be able to turn the "Rotten" character on and off but he seems incapable of doing that any more, he has to always be winding people up.
Perhaps he could hook up with someone like Guy Ritchie and make his own 'Pistol' show if he thinks the truth won't be served, then we wouldn't have to hear him piss and moan. He's always been described as being press savvy and his friend Piers Morgan is a publicity machine. For Ritchie, here's a national treasure voted one of the 100 Greatest Britons of all time and he wants you to make a tv show about his truth, strong material surely for the director of U K cult favourite 'RocknRolla' (2008) among others. Now I hear Ritchie still wants to turn 'RocknRolla' in to a trilogy, and he did use music by the Clash, but a Lydon project would be best to get in to production first, were it to actually happen.
Piers Morgan
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Post by petrolino on Jun 2, 2022 1:51:18 GMT
Major promotions on breakfast tv and "concerned" evening sessions light have been great for everyone, by all accounts.
'Waaaaa (no future)'
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Post by petrolino on Jun 2, 2022 13:52:06 GMT
Danny Boyle has been doing the rounds for the Sex Pistols and like Zos he was there (Boyle was born in 1956 in Radcliffe, Lancashire, not far from the Electric Circus). He's hailed the genius John Lydon in interviews and shared his thoughts on being there.
Danny Boyle on 'Newsnight'
For more, catch up with him on popular British evening chat show, 'The One Show'.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 18, 2023 2:40:55 GMT
Did John Lydon make it to the next rounds of the Eurovision Song Contest?
He's been doing the English press round, but I don't follow Eurovision myself.
Eurovision
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