Sex Pistols. Never Mind The Bans

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Laid low after all the negative press and banning the Pistols attempted to break out and kick start themselves again out of inertia. They were after all a band and they needed to play live and show that Sid could play at all !!. The idea then was to play a number of secret gigs around the country under different names and thus circumvent the banning. The tour came to be known as the SPOTS tour or Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly. As a result of this speculation the gigs were sold out and the band were up for it glad to be playing at last. To Steve Jones it was how it should be: 

"That tour was real good, there were a lot of fans queuing up around the block, and they went nuts when we played. It was like how it should have been, a band playing to an audience which dug you. This was playing to fans who wanted to come and see us." (The Sex Pistols 'Inside Story - Fred & Judy Vermorel) The tour was a success.

The album 'Never Mind The Bollocks' was released to the usual furore, bannings etc. To celebrate they went out on tour again and the tour was called Never Mind The Bans .This tour was basically it for the Pistols before the endgame in the US of A killed the band dead. They were playing material that was nearly two years old, only a couple of new songs and a deadweight for a bassist. Still they managed to pull it together but it was only a matter of time. Two of those gigs were Nikkers in Keighley Yorkshire and Club Lafayette Wolverhampton .The colour photos below from Keighley were supplied by Ross Galloway 

Never Mind The Bans Tour.
16th December 1977 
Uxbridge. Brunel University

17th December 1977.
 Coventry. Mr Georges.

18th December 1977. Wolverhampton. Lafayettes

19th December 1977.
 Keighley. Nikkers

20th December. 
Birkenhead. Hamilton Club

22th December 1977. Rochdale. Champness Hall

23rd December 1977. 
Newport. Village

24th December 1977.
 Cromer. Links Pavilion

19th December 1977. Keighley. Nikkers

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