Public Image Ltd member John Lydon has labelled music from bands like Coldplay and Radiohead "tosh", according to BBC6 Music News today. The newly regrouped post-punk pioneers PiL kick off their UK tour tonight (15 Dec) at the O2 Academy, Birmingham.
Lydon may live in LA now, but he reckons the UK needs his band and his honesty, more than ever: "Coldplay and Radiohead bug the hell out of me because it’s so soulless. It just seems pointless. It’s nice, but it’s tosh. I’ve been out of this country for a few years and you seriously do need me back here to tell you what’s what," he explained.
"That’s not me being awfully grandiose about it, but you need to get some sensibility together here. That grandiose idiocy."
John Lydon, also known as The Sex Pistols' frontman Johnny Rotten slammed Coldplay back in 2008 for creating boring music - insisting he felt sorry for fans who pay to see the "humourless" group perform live. Lydon, is convinced the Coldplay take themselves too seriously - and is adamant their music suffers as a result.
He says, "I pity the poor bastards who have to watch them. They are utterly humourless. I met them a few years ago, said hello and realised they were just men in anoraks. They looked like a gang of little poncy masturbators. There is no fun, they don't offer joy. Their music has a couple of quite nice tones here and there but it's a box of tosh (rubbish) sold to slightly inadequate, half-baked people."
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