Customer Reviews
Doesnt listen to Tam Nobmachine! - By: P. Cafferty, 28 Sep 2008 
Wasn't going to write a review, but then you get jumped up little wannabe Guardianists like Thomas "Nobmachine" spewing out their fetid bed wetting nonsense. Make no mistake, this is first & foremost a great rock'n'roll dvd, full on balls to the wall classic rock, played how it should be! No prog rock here! Just a huge wall of sound that is unmatched by any other act for sheer power. Every track bristles with righteous fury & takes you right back to 1977, a far more interesting musical time than we have at the moment. The audience defintely loved it big time, always a good sign.
Never Meet Your Heroes Part Two - By: Thomas Robb, 25 Aug 2008 
I finally settledin to watch this 30 years after buying what I still believe to be the best pop single ever made: "Holidays In The Sun". I got my beers ready beside me, the surround sound cranked, & I spared a thought for a great mate of mine who is half a world away (Nuclear Bob) & recalled our youthful banter over the fact that I had seen the Clash (5 times) but never the Pistols, & he the Pistols but never the Clash. I bought this DVD on the strenght of the previous 5 star reviews, but sadly I cannot agree with anything they say. After song three I was stunned at how ugly the whole thing looked & sounded. The shots of the crowd prompted me to think that I was at a BNP rally: the front rows crushed with middle aged wannabes desperately trying to outgurn each other. The playing was standard grade pub rock & with a Lydon who has turned into Albert Steptoe (Albert Steptoe had better vocal range); only bestedin the looks department by Paul Cook who could now fit into any episode of Thunderbirds. No guessing which Pistol ate all the pies either. This dvd is a jingoistic mess & I wish I'd never seen it. Thank God I've got all the originals on vinyl & cuttings from NME's of old, that way I can remember it the way it was & was meant to be. So what next for Lydon & crew? The Bus Pass World Tour boxed set with free Complan? Shoot me now.
Ther'll Always Be An England- fantastic DVD - really captures the atmosphere! - By: Jackie Lawlor, 10 Aug 2008 Rich & I were at this gig - awesome atmosphere & the Pistols were superb- we didnt stop grinning from start to finish! This DVD captures the lot, the crowd, the atmospherein this fantastic venue, the band - its like being there again. A bonus is we spotted ourselvesin the crowd a few times.
If you are a pisols fan, buy this its unmissable!
The Filth and the Fury - By: J. Parker, 02 Jul 2008 I'll keep this short & sweet.
This is an absolutely fantastic DVD. It really captured just what it was like to be there - the madness & the chaos of beingin that crowd is represented really well (I even getin a couple of shots, though not as much as some others sadly!).
The picture & sound quality is second to none, everything is as crisp & clear as being there.
The Pistols themselves are completely on form & back to their snarling best, tearing through all the classics & even finding time for a little sing-a-long with the crowd. Rotten is vicious & abrasive but he truly appreciates the fans, calling them the stars of the show.
Great extras too, I watched them straight away & really enjoyed Steve discussing his love of pies & Rotten whining about the Arsenal cannon being the wrong way round!
Get it!
Come on Johnny, I thought you were smarter than that! - By: Mr. M. A. Reed, 29 Jun 2008 here'll Always Be An England is the first 'official' Sex Pistols concert DVD. After a legion of unofficial live CD's, the official live CD, & a Japanese only VHS tape of their 1996 reunion tour, this finally captures what exactly the Sex Pistols were all about : the music.
Julien Temple, formerly a director for hire on the risible "The Great Rock N Roll Swindle", finally steps out & gives the Pistols the live document they deserve. Despite having not written a note of music 30 years, the Pistols are trying their best to avoid the obvious pratfalls of becoming a punk-equivalent of The Eagles, but it's an uphill struggle : the band have become parodies of themselves, old men playing young music, & - Rotten aside - resorting to cliche, to an extent. Jones still dons a knotted Union Jack hanky. Cook looks happy to be playing drums for anybody.
Close your eyes, though, & it's 1977 all over again. Brilliant, biting music, & vicious, prescient lyrics that still sting now with an air of teh self-fulfilling prophecy. Visually, Temple employs the entire visual palette to create a genuine recreation of the show itself with unusual camera angles, & a nice lack of big cranes & swooping crowd shots : the footage feels real, & not some cinematic recreation of the spectacle of the alternative.
There was always more to the Pistols than the cartoon anarchy nonsense : they were the sound of a firecely moral arbiter outraged at the bankruptcy of the wage slave society, & yet, recognising Orwell's dilemma that you can't ever get outside of this world & start again.
Make no mistake, visually & sonically, this film is a brilliant, faithful, & utterly honest document of the warts-and-all 30th anniversary shows, complete with flubs, forgotten lyrics, & is an authentic recreation of the shows themselves, which were, by any standards, utterly successful. The concert is short - 77 minutes including bonus track "Roadrunner" - but then again, the Pistols only had 24 songs & almost all of them are here.
Of the bonus feature - The Knowledge - features the four Pistols individually interviewed as they tour round London, visiting sites of historical interest : their rehearsal rooms are now offices, the site of their first gig an art workshop, each bookended with their own, individual commentary. It's a fascinating, & curious addition to 2000's "Filth And The Fury", with a where are they now feel that is a worthy addition. Even within 30 years, many landmarks of the bands past have been demolished & renovated & altered beyond recognition & there simply will come a time soon when all of it will be gone. This extra is largely let down by Rotten, surprisingly, who transforms "Rotten Takes The Bus" into a guided harangue against anybody, anything, & everybody & everything. Architects, workers, policemen, the Polish, city boys, every single human being - especially new Labour, are demolished, derided as cnuts, & Rotten becomes a cantkerous lonely old man railing against the entire damn world. It's a moment of Alf Garnett self-parody which devalues the rest of the set because Rotten debases himself with near xenophobic & abusive comments. You can almost see the spittle on the screen. Come on Johnny, I thought you were smarter than that.
Aside from the ill-placed Rotten rant, "There'll Always Be An England" is a fitting & excellent document that is worthy of joining the Pistols canon & a perfect sequel - if one were needed to 2000's "Filth And The Fury". if you love the Pistols, pick this up.
