Supporting The Sex Pistols

- updated 24 January 2020 - Cavern Club info added

Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk - By Peter Smith

[more] ... [extract] "The situation continued throughout December. The bands would travel to the next concert, only to find that it was canceled. A gig was scheduled to take place at Liverpool Stadium for December 11 and was hastily rearranged for the famous Cavern Club, where The Beatles started their career. The Liverpool Echo of December 7, 1976, re- ported under the headline “Call for boycott on Sex Pistols”:

An outraged Liverpool councillor today called for a boycott on punk rock group Sex Pistols—who vow to sidestep a ban on their city concert. Councillor Doreen Jones plans to demonstrate outside the club where they hope to play in a bid to dissuade youngsters from seeing the group. “Let’s show the rest of the country Liverpool is too good for this sort of rubbish. We don’t want them here,” she said. The group—who incensed audiences by swearing on the Thames TV program Today—heard last night their planned show at Liverpool Stadium had been canceled. A Stadium spokesman said, “The pub- licity they generate does not persuade me to allow them here. These Sex Pistols advocate Anarchy and we don’t want to take the risk.” Instead the group hope to stage the concert at a city club. Their manager, Mike [sic] McLaren said: “We aren’t going to tone down our act one little bit. There won't be any compromises in Liver- pool—that’s a promise.” Asked if this meant the concert would in- clude obscenities, he replied: “Life includes obscenities. Our act re- flects life.”

However, the concert at the Cavern Club was also canceled and the tour did not get to play in Liverpool."

copyright Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk - By Peter Smith, page 57

Images of England Through Popular Music:
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(more..) [extract] "The Liverpool Daily Post also gave considerable space to the Sex Pistols. The front page of 3 December again quoted McLaren describing the group as ‘working class spivs, dole-queue kids’.”! The Sex Pistols were due to play the Liverpool Stadium on 11 December. There was an immediate response from the city’s religious representatives. The Reverend Donald Gray expressed wolries concerning the political message that the group seemed to be promoting. He felt that far from liberating the youth of the nation ‘anarchy doesn’t give freedoms, it takes them away’.’ Councillor Doreen Jones made a direct appeal to her local constituents: ‘Let’s show the rest of the country Liverpool is too good for this sort of rubbish’.’*? The venue’s managers buckled under pressure and decided to cancel the event.’* An attempt to perform a replacement concert at the famous Cavern Club also ended in failure."

Liverpool Stadium then Liverpool Cavern Club

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