Members of the pioneering British punk rock band Sex Pistols, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, and Steve Jones will perform alongside tackling grunge singer Frank Carter who has been a part of groups such as Gallows, Pure Love and Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes. In an Instagram post dated the 3rd of June, Carter thanked the band for their ‘invitation’ to play the show with them. According to Blabber Mouth, Carter noted that the project “has been a joy from start to finish. When the Sex Pistols call, you answer. I’m very excited to be a part of it.”

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For Sex Pistol Drummer Cook, this is a cause extremely close to his heart as Bush hall is his local venue and he grew up around the area. Situated in West London, Bush Hall has hosted acts the likes of Amy Winehouse, The Killers, Adele, Alicia Keys, Florence & The Machine, Ed Sheeran, Bombay Bicycle Club and James Acaster. I also welcomed Kings Of Leon for their first UK show in 2006 and has been open since 1904. Bush Hall was originally part of a trio of dance halls but it has had many lives including acting as a soup kitchen throughout WW2, a rehearsal space for some of the greats like Cliff Richard and The Who as well as a snooker and social club in the 80s and 90s. It was finally returned to its ‘former music glory’ in 2001. The venue is fully independent and offers an intimate environment for shows as its capacity is 430+ guests standing and 285+ guests seated. You can read more about Bush Hall on their website via the link here.

The venue team at Bush Hall are working with artists, agents and promoters to raise funds not just for Bush Hall itself but for the entire grassroots industry in its broader scheme as well as with the Music Venue Trust to foster a more sustainable way for venues to continue to survive into the future. According to an article from NME the venue were ‘four months away from “making a hideous decision” about whether to cease hosting live music events’ in March of this year and then needed to raise £42,000 via crowdfunding to sustain itself. The grassroots venues industry is experiencing a catastrophic downsizing with the ‘total the number of GMVs declining from 960 to 835 in 2023′ as reported in the 2024 Grassroots music venues House of Commons report which you can read here. Fund raising gigs like this one are vital for the continual existence of venues like Bush Hall that keep the music industry fresh and packed with new talent.

Tickets for the show go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday the 5th of June at 9am BSt and you can grab them from the Live Nation website here.

Formed after the dissolution of frontman Perry Farell’s previous band, Jane’s Addiction gained attention from Warner Bros. Records in 1987 with the release of their self titled live album. Since then, the band have sporadically toured and dissolved a number of times the first being in 1991 where their farewell tour launched the first Lollapalooza – an annual four day festival held in Grant Park Chicago. Lollapalooza has since become a revered alternative rock festival evolving to include genres like hip hop and electronic dance music and even expanded outside of the US in 2010. ‘Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza’, a three part documentary on the festival, debuted at Sundance film festival in January and will premiere on May 21st on Paramount +. Give it a watch if you are curious about the member’s projects outside of the band.

The band describe themselves as a kind of farrago or ‘Hodge-Podge'; that is a mass of disorderly chaos, or a jumble. Born out of the LA underground rock scene, the band recall this space fondly as it gave them a chance to make mistakes and define who they are now. In a 2012 interview with Rhino, infamous guitarist Dave Navarro expressed that the band are just doing ‘what we want and don’t really worry about it. I mean, listen to the lyrics of “Have A Cigar.” What a direct ‘f*ck you’ to the music industry that song is.’ Unfortunately fans of the band may be disappointed as Navarro hasn’t returned to the stage due to ongoing issues with long Covid. Instead, he has been replaced by Josh Klinghoffer who, like Navarro, is best known for touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers between the years 2009 and 2019. In 2022 speaking to Alternative Press, Farell expressed that it wasn’t easy finding a replacement for Navarro noting that ‘Jane’s is a unique band, and you can’t just grab any guitar player and they’ll pick it up. That’s Dave Navarro we’re talking about — those are big shoes to fill.’

If you’re attending the Derby festival of any of the band’s gigs then according to an article written by Niall Doherty, for Louder Magazine in April ‘what you should really do is shout out (not when Perry is talking, that would be rude) for the band to play either their epic, ten-minute 1990 single Three Days or the similarly vast Then She Did…’ or at least that’s what Farell told the journalist when speaking to him in 2021. You can listen to the lengthy piece below.

The remainder of the UK leg of their tour sees them playing at the Roundhouse in London and then onto Glasgow at the Barrowland Ballroom on the 31st of May before ending in Manchester with a show at the O2 Apollo on the 2nd of June. They will then travel to across to Europe to play shows in Germany and France before returning to this side of the pond in late June for a show at Trinity College Dublin on the 28th. You can find tickets for the Bush Hall show and any other of the band’s gigs over the coming weeks here.