Anarchy Tour supporting the Sex Pistols with The Heartbreakers and the Damned.
- page started 19 January 2017
- updated 24 January 2020
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1976/77 Julian Temple's early footage 18hrs
Known to contain several concerts including The Roxy 1 Jan 1977 and Harlesden plus Rehearsals footageJulian Temples 1976 footage 18 hours - included Roxy/Anarchy Tour/Harlesden/Rainbow - only the footage that was used in the film eventually got digitised because it was shot on an obscure format that does exist anymore and so it cost a fortune to put onto tape. 
Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk - By Peter Smith
"In addition to the concerts in Leeds, Manchester, and Caerphilly, the tour also managed to play concerts at Clecthorpes Winter Gardens on December 20, and ended with two gigs at Plymouth Woods Centre on December 21 and 22. The first night at Plymouth was well attended; however, the second concert, and the last night of the tour, saw just twenty punters, including six members of the local chapter of the Hell’s Angels, turn up to see the bands. Matlock remembers the last gig as “the best of the whole tour, probably because we were all so happy that it was finally over. We didn’t even bother to change into our stage clothes, just played for each other” (Lloyd 2016). The tour bus returned to London on Christmas Eve. The Sex Pistols were tired and broke. What had started out as the punk package tour of all time almost ended in disaster.
Toward the end of the Anarchy tour, plans were assembled for the Sex Pistols to play in London, and discussions took place about a pos- sible gig at the Roxy Theatre in Harlesden on December 26 and 27 (not to be confused with the punk club The Roxy, which opened in central London around the same period). Terry Collins, licensee of the Roxy Theatre, told New Musical Express (1976: 2) that the Pistols “booked rehearsal time at the Roxy, so I went along to assess them, and I was horrified by their attitude which was absolutely disgusting.” Collins also alleged that the band had caused “considerable backstage damage” and that he finally decided not to allow the band to play because he did not “want to condone their attitude.” The Roxy Theatre was to host a head- line gig by The Clash in 1977."
copyright Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk - By Peter Smith, page 58
ORIGINAL Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK tour flyer from Plymouth.
Ticket - note the extra Christmas date, 29th Dec
Joe Strummer and Johnny Rotten. Anarchy Tour. Plymouth. 1976
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from Setlist FM (cannot be relied on)
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A collection of articles, interviews, reviews, posters, tour dates from the ill feted Anarchy Tour. Articles cover December and the Tour.
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Blll Grundy Interview
BBC TV Look North look back
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BBC Look North 30th Anniversary of Punk/Anarchy Tour at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens. Contains interview with Captain Sensible. TX 14th Dec. 2006
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