The Sex Pistols will release their Lesser Free Trade Hall gig in Manchester on June 4th 1976 as part of a live, 4CD collection in August.
Almost exactly 40 years on from one of the UK’s most influential gigs, and with the punk movement in general being remembered after four decades, ‘Sex Pistols – Live ‘76‘ will include a quartet of concerts professionally remastered at Abbey Road Studios and released in full for the first time on August 19th.
The set includes Screen On The Green, Islington, from August 29th 1976, Chelmsford Maximum Security Prison on September 17th 1976, and the September 25th show at the 76 Club in Burton On Trent, originally a much sought after bootleg.
But it’s the Lesser Free Trade Hall concert which stands out; attended by the likes of Tony Wilson, and future members of Joy Division, The Fall and more, it took punk screaming out of London for the first time and in that small, half-full room changed the direction of British music forever.