Demos Dish: The Return Of PiL

Who is the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten to say Coldplay and Radiohead are "soulless"? Oh, and there's more from Rotten, real name Johnny Lydon, who told BBC 6Music in December: "Coldplay and Radiohead bug the hell out of me because it's so soulless. It just seems pointless. It's nice, but it's tosh."

"They don't care about you," continued Rotten. "They care about lining their coffers. There's nothing about heart and soul, they don't know about people dying, living, aspiring."

Maybe Thom Yorke or Chris Martin can call out Johnny as "tosh" because Johnny and PiL will be on American television soon for the first time in 18 years.

You think Johnny is jealous? Just being his punk, Sex Pistols self? Or does he have a point? Then again, aside from touring with the reunited Sex Pistols over the last decade, the 54-year-old Rotten, who lives in Los Angeles, did a punk rock advertisement for British butter. He may have needed the butter money for his Just For Men neon orange hair dye, plaid suits, and zippers, zippers, and more zippers.

Johnny and Public Image Limited will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live shortly after midnight on Wednesday, April 7th. Last December John Lydon performed with PiL for the first time in 17 years. The band has set up a tour in North America and for all the dates, head to PiLOfficial.com.

In the meantime if you're a huge PiL fan, Allan Dias, who played bass with PiL, deejays at the Beauty Bar in New York on Tuesday nights.