P.I.L TO TOUR USA
John Lydon to fund new PiL’s album with US tour
Singer says reformed band are likely to record after jaunt
John Lydon
has said that Public Image Limited
are likely to record their first album in nearly 20 years after their forthcoming US tour.
The reunited post-punk band are set to kick off their first US gig run next month and
Lydon
said that the funds raised from the jaunt will probably be used to record the new album, possibly at his home studio in
Los Angeles
.
The band have not released a studio album since 1992’s
‘That What Is Not’
.
"We’ve got no backing – no record company, no sponsors, nothing like that," he told
. "The only way we can make money is the touring, and then we can make a new album. It’s sort of like the old days of
PiL
, when the [
Sex
]
Pistols
went kaput; I had to scrimp and scrape out of my own pocket. Not much has changed."
Speaking of the band’s new material, he added: "I never stop writing. Most of my influences have never really come from a musical act. It tends to be things like the poetic beat of a newscast. There’s a rhythm to the way it’s laid out. Movies can do that.
Shakespeare
and good poetry does that, and a bloody good book does that, or just a long walk."
kick off their US gig run at the
festival on April 16.
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