The shows - featuring original band members Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock with singer Frank Carter - will begin in mid-September and run for four weeks.The tour will kick off their on September 16 at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas - the site of a particularly hostile show for the legendary punk band when it first toured the US in 1978.
Jones recalls having "pigs' hooves and bottles and what not slung at us by cowboys."
It is one of a few dates featured in three Live in the USA albums, documenting the band's '78 run: Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco. The latter will be released on April 25 and captures the show where the band originally called it quits.
"We were thinking of breaking up in San Francisco again," Jones jokes.
The 2025 tour is currently scheduled to conclude on October 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The band will hit Washington; Philadelphia; Brooklyn, New York; Montreal; Toronto; Cleveland; Detroit; Minneapolis; Denver; Seattle and San Francisco. Additional tour dates will be announced later.
So, why tour the US and Canada now?
"Why not?" says Jones.
"I think everybody needs this band right now. I think the world needs this band right now," says Carter. "And I think definitely America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols."
"At the end of the day, we're living in a really, really difficult time. So not only do people want to come and just be entertained, they want to enjoy themselves," he continued. "Punk is an energetic music. It's one where you can go and vent and let your hair down, hopefully in a safe manner. Fingers crossed, no bottles or pigs' hooves."
Carter fronted the Sex Pistols last year for a few UK dates. The band says they did not reach out to Johnny Rotten, AKA John Lydon, to see if he wanted to participate in this reunion tour.
"The last thing he wants to do is have anything to do with us right now," says Jones, referring to a previous lawsuit between the singer and the band over music use in their TV series Pistol. The judge ruled against Lydon's opposition.
"We wish him the best," Jones said.
"Good luck to him," adds Matlock. "I wish he thinks, maybe, 'good luck' to us. Probably doesn't. But over the years, John (has had) all our phone numbers, and I can't see many missed calls from him."
The band's Australian tour starts in Melbourne on April 5.
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