best one-liner in Sex Pistols interview at 100 Club in 1996

full quotes for the ones that got cut off:

"I’m, glad he’s still doing our press for us.”
“Pardon can I have that in English? It’s sad that an arsehole like you doesn’t appreciate the effort we’ve gone to.”
“More than The Beatles and f**king right ‘n’ all. Cos this is the only thing that’s ever come out of Britain that’s actually worth the money."
“I thought about that, but Sid’s ashes were blown all over Heathrow airport! We’d need a fucking Hoover!”
"I’m also incredibly spiteful and when someone thinks something is so sacrosanct that it should never be touched, I wanna touch it."
“You’ve got to rehearse some place.”
“No, we haven’t even rehearsed yet. This is only the third time we’ve even seen each other. We’ve spent five minutes together and it’s going great.”
"Yes, with a vengeance, but we share a common cause, and it’s your money.”
“Listen, we invented punk, we write the rules. You follow. Not the other way round.”
“The only thing I’m on is ego, and I’ve got more than enough to go round.”
"Sid was nothing more than a coat hanger to fill in an empty space on stage."
“Some bunch of F***ing geriatrics. Who cares? Let’s face it nobody is gonna go for any of the support bands. Apparently the Buzzcocks are gonna be at Finsbury Park but if you really want a good laugh, come late.”
“No, and quite Frankly I never appreciated that in the first place. I am not no fucker’s spittoon.”
“You’ll call me sir”
“What Tricky’s doing isn’t new. That’s all samples of other people’s stuff. That’s not new. There’s not one original thought in there. By the way, I like Tricky.”
“I think they’ll do it next year. Cos they always did stuff after us anyway.”
“Not Fergie. That tart in a tent can stay where she is. That’s the bum suck end of it. That’s The Clash of the royal family.”
"This is happening because we actually sat down and bothered to think about it and started to call in some of these arseholes offering all this money and have no qualms whatsoever about taking them up on their big fat mouths.”
“No. No, the concerts won’t go well and no, it will not be permanent. I mean, you know what this lot’s like. We always disappoint on the night. And surely that’s the fun of it all. I hope at Finsbury Park it rains and you get your wheelchairs stuck in the mud,”
“Prostitutes. Well I am anyway."
“No. I’ve grown wide.”

the Tricky quote is fairly inspired. though I think "the concerts won't go well" is my current fav.

this was the first "really? they're going forward with THIS?" concert tour that caught my attention growing up

lol I saw that tour ... it was fucking surreal

was there a lot of awkward stage banter and terrible performances?

it was in a huge outdoor stadium with lawn seating and those huge big projection screens because you can't see jackshit from the lawn seating

I remember Billy Jo from Green Day chiding them for the tour, going on tv mockingly singing "I am the Antichrist/buy some more of me merchandise!"

laughed out loud at a few of these, but especially:

What do we call you, Johnny - Rotten or- -

Lydon: “You’ll call me sir”

Two decent questions got considered answers. "Why did it take so long"

was there a lot of awkward stage banter and terrible performances?

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it was in a huge outdoor stadium with lawn seating and those huge big projection screens because you can't see jackshit from the lawn seating

counterpoint: it was in a sweaty 1200-capacity beer barn and it ruled

lol @ "You'll call me sir"

I (very briefly) interviewed Lydon around the time of the second reunion tour. I think it was 2003? After 9/11, anyway, so I wanted to ask him about Africa Bambaataa's "World Destruction," whose lyrics seemed very of the moment. I say hello and in hopes of setting up a discussion I tell him that before I ask him about the Pistols, could I ask a hip-hop related question? He says "are you taking the piss?" and I say, no, I'm dead serious. So he yells "fuck off!" and hangs up on me. I call back in 30 seconds, reintroduce myself, and he just screeches "I said fuck off!" and hangs up again. I figure, what more could I ask from an interview with Johnny Rotten? Also, I got it on tape, which is kind of cool.

Have you realised that rock stars
Always seem to lie so much?
John Lydon once said he cared
But he never really gave a fuck

I went with Sid-as-coat-hanger.

From what I've heard, John saves his ire for the press but is very gracious with fans. Anyone here actually met him?

He sounds like a dick.

does what it says on the tin

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Tricky quote is great. I never get tired of white guys from the 90s thinking they were dropping an insightful truthbomb by pointing out what sampling is.

If you scroll down from the link there's Alan McGee's review, sorry "Creation Records Statement" of the reunion gig, which is almost worth polling on its own.

"If you accept Oasis and to my mind 3 Colours Red as the most exciting rock'n'roll bands in the country then accept this that both Noel Gallagher and Chris McCormack told me separately that "they are better than us".".

"Steve Jones is the man The Throb always wanted to be"

"Britpop? More like Shitpop. You're welcome to your mediocrity".

Surprising that Oor Boaby isn't mentioned.

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