{"id":501669,"date":"2026-10-20T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501669\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:00:19","slug":"the-sex-pistols-host-a-women-only-mosh-pit-during-hollywood-palladium-show-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501669\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sex Pistols host a women-only mosh pit during Hollywood Palladium show \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late in the Sex Pistols<\/a> night at the Hollywood Palladium on Sunday, Oct. 18, singer Frank Carter thanked its original members Steve Jones<\/a>, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock<\/a> for inviting him into the fold two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a pleasure to bring these three gentlemen around the world on a victory lap they never got,\u201d Carter said, perfectly describing what this current 50 Years of Punk tour has been for the band.<\/p>\n

For a band like the Sex Pistols, the notoriety that swirled around the band from its debut in November 1975 to its implosion a little over two years later, was both very good and quite bad.<\/p>\n

It made their legacy as punk rock influencers, as godfathers who helped birth the entire movement, a standing that endures to this day.<\/p>\n

But while the Pistols\u2019 burned with a white-hot intensity at the start, the band broke up amid chaos and acrimony after a show on Jan. 14, 1978 in San Francisco, snuffing out its future before it had barely started.<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Glen Matlock, kicks his leg into the air as he performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Fans cheer on as the Sex Pistols perform at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Steve Jones, performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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British punk singer Frank Carter performs with the original members of the Sex Pistols as he replaced vocalist John Lyndon for the tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Glen Matlock, performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols featuring singer Frank Carter perform at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Glen Matlock left, performs alongside singer Frank Carter, right, at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Paul Cook, performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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British punk singer Frank Carter performs with the original members of the Sex Pistols as he replaced vocalist John Lyndon for the tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Glen Matlock, performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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British punk singer Frank Carter performs with the original members of the Sex Pistols as he replaced vocalist John Lyndon for the tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Singer Frank Carter, left, performs alongside original Sex Pistols member, Steve Jones, at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols featuring singer Frank Carter perform at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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British punk singer Frank Carter performs with the original members of the Sex Pistols as he replaced vocalist John Lyndon for the tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Steve Jones, performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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British punk singer Frank Carter performs with the original members of the Sex Pistols as he replaced vocalist John Lyndon for the tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols featuring singer Frank Carter perform at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original members, Paul Cook, left, and Steve Jones, right, perform at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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British punk singer Frank Carter performs with the original members of the Sex Pistols as he replaced vocalist John Lyndon for the tour at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols featuring singer Frank Carter perform at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Militarie Gun performs as the opening act for the Sex Pistols at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Militarie Gun singer Ian Shelton performs as the opening act for the Sex Pistols at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Militarie Gun performs as the opening act for the Sex Pistols at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Militarie Gun performs as the opening act for the Sex Pistols at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Sex Pistols original member, Glen Matlock, kicks his leg into the air as he performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Sure, there were a handful of brief reunions with original singer Johnny Rotten, who\u2019d reverted to his birth name of John Lydon after forming Public Image Ltd.<\/a> in mid-1978. [Matlock, who\u2019d been replaced by the late Sid Vicious, returned at that point.]\n<\/p>\n

The new lineup with Carter, a veteran of British punk bands such as Gallows and the Rattlesnakes, isn\u2019t likely to end in fisticuffs, lawsuits, and recriminations as the band has in the past.<\/p>\n

And after nearly 90 shows around the world since 2024, the Palladium show sounded fantastic with power and passion over 14 songs in 70 minutes. [This show, which closed the band\u2019s North American leg of the tour, was originally scheduled for October 2025 before Jones broke his wrist.]\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cHolidays in the Sun\u201d kicked off the show just as it opens \u201cNever Mind the Bollocks, Here\u2019s the Sex Pistols,\u201d the band\u2019s only studio release before breaking up. With Carter bounding around the stage as Jones, Cook and Matlock blasted through the power chords and crushing beat of the music, the first of many mosh pits broke out midfloor.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeventeen\u201d and \u201cNew York\u201d followed \u2013 all 11 tracks of the original release of \u201cNever Mind the Bollocks\u201d\u00a0 were eventually played, though not in the album order.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t come all the way to Los Angeles for you to stand still,\u201d Carter shouted after \u201cNew York.\u201d \u201cI wanna see the biggest circle pit ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one\u2019s for you,\u201d he added as he made his way with his microphone to the center of the floor. \u201cIt\u2019s the best punk song ever written.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty Vacant\u201d set an impressively large pit aswirl, Carter gleefully singing as dozens of fans bounced off each other, and sometimes him, as the song raced to its finish.<\/p>\n

After \u201cBodies,\u201d Carter had a new request, or demand, for the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I get it. I understand,\u201d he began. \u201cYou\u2019re a little bit older. Your ankles will probably hurt at 9 a.m. And I know you don\u2019t have universal healthcare, so a mosh pit is a bit of a risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t ask you to pogo for anyone but the Sex Pistols,\u201d Carter finished. And if you must know, yes, we pogoed, and OK, our ankles did complain a bit in the morning, but it was totally worth it to be part of the bouncing crowd as the Pistols played Paul Revere and the Raiders\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m Not Your Stepping Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod Save the Queen,\u201d the 1977 Sex Pistols single that infuriated prim and proper British society, was a mid-show highlight, the sold-out crowd singing loudly on the chorus of \u201cNo future \/ No future \/ No future for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

A cover of Iggy Pop\u2019s \u201cNo Fun,\u201d the final song the band played in San Francisco before its breakup, let Jones, Matlock and Cook each take a turn in the spotlight for solos. Carter had enough time to walk backstage, grab a tall can of some kind of beverage, and make it back in time to introduce the band.<\/p>\n

Before \u201cNo Feelings,\u201d Carter commanded the fans to open up the middle of the floor, and then invited all the women in the crowd to come forward for a female-only mosh pit.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry about getting an elbow in the face or being groped by some neanderthal,\u201d he announced as the pit filled quickly with women and girls. \u201cFor the rest of the room, I promise you will never see a happier mosh pit in your life. And fellas, if this offends you somehow, I\u2019ve got a number for a therapist for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, as the song wrapped up, Carter pronounced the moment as \u201ca beautiful thing right there.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember when you leave here tonight, punk rock is for everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cProblems\u201d and \u201cE.M.I.\u201d flowed into \u201cMy Way.\u201d The standard had been sung by Sid Vicious on the soundtrack to the Sex Pistols\u2019 movie \u201cThe Great Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll,\u201d and the band performed as they had there \u2013 first a slow, dramatic take, then a sped-up punked-out buzzbomb to the finish.<\/p>\n

That left just one song in the set, arguably the best saved for last. \u201cAnarchy in the U.K.\u201d was the Pistols\u2019 debut single in November 1976, and in its roar of guitar, bass and drums, and lyrics captured the anger and frustration of disaffected youth in Britain, and ultimately anywhere; its one of the great rock and roll anthems.<\/p>\n

After tearing through it once, the band played on as Carter urged the crowd to take over the final, repeated chorus. And so we sang, \u201cAnd I wanna be anarchy\u201d over and over.<\/p>\n

\u201cTempe, Arizona was louder than that the other night,\u201d he taunted us, so the crowd sang even louder until Carter, Jones, Cook and Matlock were finally satisfied that, truly, we mean it, man.<\/p>\n

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