Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor on the Sex Pistols playing their first gig at London's 100 Club

The Sex Pistols have kicked off their first major tour in decades - and they're set to come to New Zealand next month.

The band played at London's 100 Club for the first time in over half a century, with Frank Carter filling in for John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten.

Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall explained what fans can expect ahead of the band's planned concerts in New Zealand.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The unmistakable sound there of the sex Pistols. I'm joined
now by Steve Neil, editor at flex stock Co dot Nz,
to talk entertainment.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good I think, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
The sex Pistols are back and hitting.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Our way the back kinder, Yeah, kind of it's missing
one sort of Cannie. This is the sex Pistols with
Frank Turner. You heard the unmistakable sound of Johnny Lydon,
John Lyden ak Johnny Rotten there. Their singer does not
perform with the band anymore. There's been a bit of
a falling out between Leyden and the other band members.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
But like you be forty, it's never quite sure what
who you're going to get.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
It's a bit like you be forty. So six Pistols
played their first show of the year at the one
hundred Club in London last night, a venue that's really
kind of central to punk history, having hosted a kind
of landmark gig in nineteen seventy six with The Sex Pistols,
The Clash, Susie and the Benches in Subway Sect And

(01:08):
yes they're heading away, so no time to waste. They
played one hundred Club. They are doing the Royal Albert
Hall on Monday, and they're coming to New Zealand to
play the Auckland Town Hall on April second and chrish
Hitch Town Hall April third. Frank Frank Carter the new
singer for the band at a previous band called Gallows
that I quite liked. He's not a carbon copy of Leiden,

(01:31):
but you wouldn't want to try and be. I think that.
I think it's pretty It's pretty hard like if you've
ever done karaoke to a sex pistol sign, it's pretty
hard to not try and be Johnny Rotten. But yeah,
it won't work if you're trying to be a carbon copy.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
With it mind. Hey, some really good news for the
New Zealand film Tina.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, it's in its fourth week of release now and
just continues to be a real landslide at the box office.
It's a nice opportunity to remind people to see this
awesome local drum if you haven't already. The story of
a quiet teach who kind of finds a new meaning
in her life when she goes to work at an
extremely privileged private school and sort of forges some unexpected

(02:13):
connections with the students there. It's been number one for
three weeks at the local box office. It's past three
million dollars at the local box office. It's the highest
grossing film of twenty twenty five, and it's poised to
overtake what becomes The Broken Hearted on the all time
top grossing New Zealand film list, which would put it
in seventh position, and chasing Soona's wedding.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
So please that people are making the effort to go
and see it because it is a beautiful film. You
will laugh out loud, you will cry like you never
cry before in a movie. It's just this beautiful balance,
isn't it? Of absumer and hear heartbreak.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
And I'm yet to hear any bad feedback on this film.
And it's nice to see when films can very much
kind of come and go from cinemas. There's a very
busy release schedule. That word of mouth is clearly working
for this film, because audiences are telling each other to
go and see it, and really, you know, hey, the
selfappointed experts us, we can tell you to see it,
but doesn't it just doesn't it just better? If lots

(03:11):
of people are out there making good noise.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, definitely, no, definitely absolutely, and I believe actually, if
you have been to see the film and you love
the music, they've managed to get his soundtrack out now,
I thank you Spotify. Yeah, if you hit your streaming
service and just put tr in and look for the
soundtrack and things, I think you'll be able to find
some of that musical meter to continue enjoying the lovely

(03:36):
music that you heard.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's definitely something you'd like to take home from that
film from a cinema experience.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeaheah, No, wonderful news. Thank you so much. Steve'll talk
to you next week.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
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