On this day 1976 - Sex Pistols play their first Scottish gig

The Sex Pistols played their first Scottish gig on this day 44 years ago in a show that came just before the punk band were banned from scores of venues across the country after offending the nation.
By Alison Campsie
Published 12th Oct 2020, 12:49 BST
John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, who performed their first Scottish gig in Dundee 44 years ago today.John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, who performed their first Scottish gig in Dundee 44 years ago today.
John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, who performed their first Scottish gig in Dundee 44 years ago today.

The Sex Pistols played at the student union of the Dundee College of Technology – known locally as the Bowling Alley – with the small Tuesday-night gig lingering in the memory of the group given the drunken crowd bottled Johnny Rotten and fellow members off the stage.

Bass player and song writer Glen Matlock, in an earlier interview, said: "There weren't that many people there but they must have drunk a lot cause there were lots of bottles of Tennent's and Newcastle Brown.

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