OCTOBER 1976. The Sex Pistols arrive in Scotland for the first time. Not long after they take to the stage at Dundee’s College of Technology, the band flee to their dressing room as the crowd pelts them with pint pots. Later, the venue empties and, calm restored, the Pistols re-emerge. A few remaining stragglers ask the band why they didn’t finish their set. Glen Matlock, the original bassist before Sid Vicious, says: “Well, you were bottling us”. In response, the stragglers reply: “Well, we read you liked that.” That anecdote neatly sums up just how badly punk has been misunderstood...
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