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Sex Pistols and Frank Carter review – rip-roaring punk rock redux
Fronted by the impassioned Rattlesnakes singer in place of John Lydon, the band show off the thunderous chops that critics claimed they never had
Whatever insurrectionary agenda their late former manager, Malcolm McLaren, imposed on the group, they were primarily a thrilling rock’n’roll band, as hearing Seventeen and Pretty Vacant again confirms. The wired, muscular Carter, a punk rock veteran himself, hurls himself into these songs and into the mosh pit, favouring wide-eyed intensity over Johnny Rotten’s arch, mocking sneer. It’s undeniably poignant to see a band once viewed as a threat to the fabric of society reinvented as a nostalgia turn, yet the closing Anarchy in the UK sounds a fair summary of recent events on Britain’s streets.
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