John Lydon’s iconoclastic band Public Image Ltd (PiL) has announced a major tour of the UK and Ireland for summer 2025.

The 23-date tour billed as This Is Not The Last Tour will start in Bristol on Thursday 22 May and end in Belfast on Saturday 16 August, and includes dates along the way in Dublin (12th June) and Cardiff (14th June), and a date at the Coventry Empire on Saturday 9 August.

The tour also includes festival appearances at Stone Valley South in Ware (23rd May), Stone Valley Midlands in Newark (27th June), Rebellion Festival in Blackpool (7th August), Stone Valley North in Durham (8th August) and Putting the Fast in Belfast (16th August).

Tickets go on sale at 10.00am on Friday 15th November, available from all venues and via www.pilofficial.com

PiL’s tour dates for 2025 comes after Lydon thought the band might not tour again. His lifelong friend and manager, John Rambo Stevens passed away suddenly following the last PiL tour, in December 2023, soon after the death of Lydon’s wife, Nora, in April 2023.

Lydon thought that might be the end of his touring days. However, he was overwhelmed by the love and support of fans when he undertook a spoken word tour of the UK in spring this year.

Lydon said: “I thought that might be it. After losing Nora, and Rambo, I couldn’t see a way through. I’d already committed to the spoken word tour, this spring, and I never let anyone down - I always stick to my word - so I had to do those dates.

“The thing is, people were so overwhelmingly positive, and they asked me to tour PiL again. With so many people asking and with the band meaning so much to them, I couldn’t just stay on my sofa and not tour - tempting though that obviously is.”

After fronting the Sex Pistols, John Lydon formed post-punk originators Public Image Ltd (PiL). Widely regarded as one of the most innovative bands of all time, their music and vision earned them 5 UK Top 20 Singles and 5 UK Top 20 Albums.

With a shifting line-up and unique sound – fusing rock, dance, folk, pop and dub – Lydon guided the band from their debut album First Issue in 1978 through to 1992’s That What Is Not, before a 17 year hiatus.

Lydon reactivated PiL in 2009, touring extensively and releasing three critically acclaimed albums, This is PiL (2012), What The World Needs Now… (2015) and End of World (2023).