4 d. ago ‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk

Don’t live like everyone else! Angela Jaeger met every act going in punk, in New York and London – and had crushes on them all. Now 65, she talks us through her thrill-filled diariesThere is nothing new to discover, surely, about the birth of punk. But perhaps it depends where you look. Written between 1977 and 1981, the teenage diaries of Angela Jaeger crackle with life. Published as the book I Feel Famous, the New York and London punk scenester’s writing gives us a real-time immersion, with zero revisionism, into not only what happened and who was there, but how it felt to a musically fanatical teenage girl.Diary entry for 9 May, 1977, about a Bryan Ferry/Talking Heads gig being sold out: “Shit, damn, piss forever!! What can you do but kick and curse cause you CAN’T GO! It shits bricks solid!!” By 27 June, she’s a dedicated anglophile, a Sex Pistols and Clash obsessive, searching for an identity and asking the big questions: “Why should we be expected to live like everyone else do...

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5 d. ago Sex Pistols star once confessed to stealing from David Bowie: ‘He thought it was funny’

‘I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon,’ musician said

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5 d. ago Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones: ‘I like to fart in front of people. You can tell if someone’s cool from their reaction’

The punk guitarist on the ideal length of gigs, stealing from David Bowie’s trucks and dealing with an ornery Jerry Lee LewisIs it true you nicked some of your early equipment from David Bowie’s trucks outside the Hammersmith Odeon at the last Ziggy Stardust show, in 1973?There’s definitely some truth in that. It wasn’t outside in trucks though – it was on the stage! They played two nights, and after the first night they left all the gear up, because they were playing there the next night. I knew the Hammersmith Odeon like the back of my hand, I used to bunk in there all the time. I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon.The Sex Pistols are touring Australia 5 -11 April; see here for dates. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The Sex Pistols announce first North American tour in 2 decades

The Sex Pistols will tour North America for the first time since 2003 this fall

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9 d. ago Netflix’s Million Dollar Secret rules: how to play and win the game show

Netflix's new reality game show where contestants compete for a $1 million prize is filled with twists and deception

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9 d. ago Watch Sex Pistols with Frank Carter’s explosive show at London’s Royal Albert Hall

Watch Sex Pistols with Frank Carter’s explosive show at London’s Royal Albert Hall  NME

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1 week ago Sex Pistols at the Royal Albert Hall review: 'excitement threatening to explode'

The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs kick off with Sex Pistols storming the venerable Hall with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon up top

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1 week ago Sex Pistols at the Royal Albert Hall review: 'the venue's first Circle Pit?'

The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs kick off with Sex Pistols storming the venerable Hall with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon up top

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1 week ago Sex Pistols delight fans at Royal Albert Hall gig for Teenage Cancer Trust

It came as the first in a series of gigs raising money for the cancer charity.

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1 week ago AP PHOTOS: China's evolving punk scene draws a new generation of fans

Young fans, some sporting spiky mohawks, slam-danced and stage-dived as the music blasted into the night. One wore a metal-studded jacket with what looked like vintage Sex Pistols buttons.

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1 week ago SEX PISTOLS Play Secret Show At Legendary London Venue 100 Club

SEX PISTOLS Play Secret Show At Legendary London Venue 100 Club  BLABBERMOUTH.NET

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1 week ago The Sex Pistols rock the 100 Club in London with first gig in 50 years

The Sex Pistols rock the 100 Club in London with first gig in 50 years  The Guardian

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1 week ago The Sex Pistols rock London with first gig at 100 Club in 50 years

Band members were joined on stage by former Gallows frontman Frank Carter as stars and fans welcomed their returnThere was anticipation on Oxford Street in London as the Sex Pistols rocked the 100 Club for the first time in more than half a century, playing classic tunes for a crowd of creaking punks.In a hot and sweaty venue, which harkened back to the band’s glory days, they darted on stage like squaddies on a march, to roars from the audience. They were celebrated by stars and superfans such as Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and the Jam frontman, Paul Weller. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sex Pistols tear through classics with Frank Carter on secret 100 Club return

They performed as Spots (Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly) as they had done during the late 1970s to book shows when they were being shut down.

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2 w. ago The Libertines' Pete Doherty and Carl Barât's legendary east London party flat on sale for £850k

The band held guerrilla gigs in the flat’s front room, and nicknamed the property ‘the Albion Rooms’

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2 w. ago Demonstrators disrupt House of Lords to demand abolition of unelected chamber

The House was adjourned for a short time as the demonstrators were escorted out.

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2 w. ago Stevie Wonder unveiled as the final headliner for BST Hyde Park 2025 lineup

Music legend Stevie Wonder is the final headliner for BST Hyde Park 2025, bringing his legendary sound to London’s iconic stage

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2 w. ago Sex Pistols reunite 50 years after chart ban despite being 'too old'

The Sex Pistols were headline-grabbing wrong ‘uns who scandalised the nation by swearing on TV and gunning for the monarchy, but could they be about to make a comeback?

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3 w. ago ‘Johnny Rotten tore my record off the deck’: the superfan at the centre of disco and punk

Alan Jones somehow straddled the riotous noise of the Sex Pistols, the fetishism of Vivienne Westwood and the hedonism of disco and gay clubs. A new book tells his storyIn the mid-70s, Alan Jones was performing a particularly exquisite balancing act. A habitué both of Vivienne Westwood’s London boutique Sex and the gay clubs, he was on the frontline of two seemingly opposed cultures: punk and disco. Each camp might have thought the other completely incomprehensible – tuneless noise or vacuous hedonism – but for him it was quite natural: as he says, “They blended together in my mind. It was all about going out and having a good time; the music was interchangeable. And once Vivienne began her fetish clothing lines, it fitted both arenas.”Nevertheless, there were pinch points. In April 1976, Jones DJed for the Sex Pistols when they played a Soho strip club, El Paradise. Arriving with his “new best friend” John Paul Getty III – fresh from his kidnapping in Italy – Jones decided on a dis...

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3 w. ago It looks like Sex Pistols and Frank Carter are playing a tiny secret London show – here's how you can get in

It looks like Sex Pistols and Frank Carter are playing a tiny secret London show – here's how you can get in  NME

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