Public Picture Ltd., Dry Cleansing, The Moonlandingz lead first wave of line-up
Public Picture Ltd., Dry Cleansing and The Moonlandingz have been introduced as a part of the primary wave of acts for Rockaway Seashore 2025.
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The winter pageant will return to Butlin’s in Bognor Regis, West Sussex from January 2 to 4, 2026. Tickets, together with three-day pageant passes and lodging packages, can be found here.
PiL have been confirmed as the primary of the three headliners, with two additional bulletins to return later within the 12 months. John Lydon’s post-punk band are additionally gearing up fro a full UK and Eire tour in Could – visit here for tickets to that – and they’re releasing a “lengthy misplaced” various US mixture of ‘First Version’ for Report Retailer Day 2025.
Rockaway founder Ian Crowther has stated: “It’s onerous to overstate simply how very important Public Picture Ltd have been in shaping various music. From the second they emerged, they’ve pushed boundaries – musically, visually, politically. Having them at Rockaway Seashore looks like welcoming a cornerstone of post-punk historical past to the pageant.”
“It’s any person we’ve wished to guide for a number of years now,” he added. “There’s a defiance and rawness in what they do this aligns so naturally with the spirit of Rockaway. It’s an ongoing, uncompromising pressure, and we’re extremely proud to have them be part of us.”
Additionally on the invoice are Grammy-winning London-based post-punks Dry Cleansing and Sheffield noiseniks The Moonlandingz, who returned earlier this 12 months with their first new music in virtually eight years within the type of the frantic single ‘The Signal Of A Man’.
Different names on this first wave of acts embrace punk veterans The Members and TV Smith, in addition to Baggio, Bruise Management, Ellur, Spielmann, We Hate You Please Die, Y and Chris Hawkins.
In different PiL information, Lydon not too long ago poignantly opened up about how the upcoming Public Picture Ltd tour and dealing on new “raucous” music helps him navigate bereavement. “Unhappiness is an power,” he stated, in echoes of PiL’s iconic 1986 observe ‘Rise’ (which said that ‘Anger is an power’). “It might both be utilized or you may let it eat you alive. The second possibility just isn’t very fascinating to me.”
The singer additionally took half in NME’s notorious career-spanning Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells? quiz, the place he recalled spurning the chance to collaborate with Daft Punk, Kate Bush’s “horrified” response to a observe he wrote for her, in addition to why he finds Taylor Swift “extremely uninteresting” and ‘doesn’t like Woman Gaga as an individual’.
Lydon can also be embarking on a stay talking I May Be Mistaken, I May Be Proper – Q&A Tour. For additional info go to here.