Tom Clarke from The Enemy has been speaking somewhat crossly about the Sex Pistols' recent set at the Isle Of Wight festival. He is not criticising the punk veterans themselves, but the crowd's non-anarchic behaviour.
Complaining about one festival goer who told him to stop singing during the band's rendition of 'God Save The Queen' he said: "I wasn't alive in 76, and this geezer was. He probably saw the 60s, when people thought music could genuinely change world politics, and he saw the punk movement tear away from romantic pop slop and say 'fuck the rules, fuck the system and let's go and be individual and have a good time'. This geezer lived through some of the most important decades of music and politics society has ever seen and somehow, inexplicably managed to miss the point completely".
He also had a go at the festival's security measures, which apparently including stopping the crowd from dancing. "In my humble view this country, and our freedom to have a laugh, is being strangled by red tape", he continued. "Health and safety madness. Dancing is not dangerous. Never was. If we can't have fun at a Sex Pistols gig, where are we all meant to go to let off some steam?"