John Lydon is “always writing” for a brand new Public Picture Ltd album.
John Lydon is writing the subsequent Public Picture Ltd album
The 69-year-old music legend – who based PiL in 1978 and has launched 11 albums up to now with the post-punk band – has promised new music is on the best way, and he’ll nonetheless be engaged on the fabric while on tour with the group this summer season.
Requested if a brand new LP is on the best way, he informed Contactmusic.com: “Yeah, we are going to. Yeah. For the brand new album I’m always writing. After we’re on a tour bus all that begins to occur.
“I by no means cease writing. It’s been like that every one my life, since I discovered to learn and write once I was 4, I simply liked writing. I’ve acquired reams of concepts.
“However I’d be fortunate if out of 800 pages I might skim two strains. It’s constant and I won’t be in that thoughts body in a while down the road.”
The brand new assortment would be the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Finish of the World’, and their fourth album since reuniting in 2009.
The previous Intercourse Pistols frontman revealed his lyrics are actually impressed by “a way of pleasure” somewhat than “wallowing in self-pity”.
He defined: “Life. Existence. A way of pleasure in the whole lot. I’m not a distress guts. I’m not one for wallowing in self-pity.
“Clearly, I’ve had my moments in that, however that might not encourage me to place out an album of introspective mediocrity. This isn’t Peter Hammill right here.
“I discover enjoyable in the whole lot, and humour. That creates intrigue after which I examine my topics till I can pen it precisely and correctly.
“There’s no fantasy island in my writing; it’s all based mostly on experiences.”
John and the band are hitting the street this summer season, and he insisted there may be an surprising secret to creating PiL’s reside exhibits so good.
He stated: “Stage fright. I’ve learn a whole lot of books about that, by Alec Guinness and people form of actors who speak about stage fright and it actually helped me once I was younger.
“It’s a extremely precious software, as a result of with out that you simply received’t have the internal stamina to do what you subsequent on stage. You received’t be ready for it.
“It’s a must to principally s*** your self, you do. I nonetheless do however I like that, the aid as soon as I’m on stage, that’s the reward. After which it’s sink or swim.”
Public Picture Ltd’s 2025 tour dates:
twelfth June Dublin 3Olympia
thirteenth June Limerick Dolan’s Warehouse
twenty second June Milton Keynes Perpetually Now Competition
twenty fourth June Margate Dreamland
twenty sixth June Hastings White Rock
twenty seventh June Newark Stone Valley Competition Midlands
twenty eighth June Oxford O2 Academy
1st July Warrington Parr Corridor
third July Leicester O2 Academy
4th July Lincoln Engine Shed
fifth July Portsmouth Guildhall
twenty sixth July Cardiff Depot
thirtieth July Sheffield Leadmill
thirty first July Northampton Roadmenders
1st August Holmfirth Picturedrome
2nd August Coventry Empire
seventh August Cheltenham City Corridor
eighth August Durham Stone Valley Competition North
ninth August Blackpool Riot Competition
fifteenth August Cork Metropolis Corridor
sixteenth August Belfast Placing the Quick in Belfast, Customized Home Sq.
