John Lydon has said that music festivals are all dull and should get back to their roots if there's to be any hope for them. He told The Daily Star that he was disappointed when he performed at The Isle Of Wight Festival with The Sex Pistols earlier this month. He said: "I was remembering festivals in the 70s and how crazy mad they used to be and great fun. This lot were deckchairs, posh Butlins - what I was performing to was polite schoolteachers. But it's all right because it's not the kids that need education - it's that lot". He added: "I didn't go to Glastonbury because what's that without the hippies and the rave?"
Lydon's comments on the IOW Festival echo comments made by The Enemy's frontman Tom Clarke, who complained on his band's MySpace blog that one festival goer had told him to stop singing during The Sex Pistol's rendition of 'God Save The Queen'.
Elsewhere, Lydon has been telling Reuters that one of the main things punk did for the world was promote family values. He said: "Family values, unity, spirit, community. All these things they try and steal away from us. That's punk".