The Sex Pistols and Frank Carter in Glasgow - my verdict

If punk is dead, then Glasgow was in Heaven last night.

I haven’t thought too much about what the afterlife might be like, but I really didn’t expect it to be a circle pit of grandpa’s in the city’s Southside.

Okay so Heaven may be a stretch, but the Sex Pistols and Frank Carter’s performance at the O2 Academy does earn an easy five stars for me.

The sold out show was held at the O2 in Glasgow (Image: Calum Buchan)

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Legendary rock icons Paul Cook, Steve Jones, and Glen Matlock, took to the stage on Sunday night - but after legal fallouts swapped original frontman Johnny Rotten/John Lydon with another fiery redhead.

Rattlesnakes singer Carter looked at home as he seemed to comfortably fill in the punk shoes, and quickly won the crowd over with his attitude and vocals - even those wearing Johnny Rotten masks in the pit.

The show focused on the group's iconic 1977 album Never Mind The Bollocks, with standout songs being Satellite, God Save the Queen, Pretty Vacant and E.M.I.

Despite the tracks being almost 50 years old they proved to still be as relevant as ever, as the crowd erupted after the show was kicked off with Holidays in the Sun.

Rattlesnakes singer Frank Carter (Image: Calum Buchan)

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The audience was mostly filled out by older punk veterans who now wear glasses and flat caps, while the younger fresh rockers who made it out couldn’t believe they were seeing their idols in the flesh.

Speaking to fans Carter said: “What we are going to do now is what the f****** Sex Pistols was always intended for.

“I want to see the biggest f****** circle pit in the Academy. Are you ready to run? Are you ready to f****** move?”

Regardless of age, the crowd opened up the pit with some securing their phones while others tucked their bus passes away safely before they all began running around.

The show was sold out (Image: Calum Buchan)

Johnny Rotten masks spotted in the crowd. (Image: Calum Buchan)

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A sea of bunnets and crowd surfers went so wild Carter called out “I have never seen someone being pulled out a mosh pit backwards like a dolphin before”.

For their encore performance they nodded to the Sid Vicious cover of Frank Sinatra’s hit “My Way”, which seemed fitting as Carter himself had definitely brought the house down with his way of the Never Mind The Bollocks album.

The sold out gig proved punk is truly alive in Glasgow as dedicated fans couldn't be held back - even if some rock a silver comb over these days instead of their their once colourful mohawks.

Original members of the Sex Pistols took to the stage in Glasgow (Image: Calum Buchan)

The gig was held at the O2 Academy (Image: Calum Buchan)

Setlist: 

Holidays in the Sun

Seventeen

New York

Pretty Vacant

Bodies

Silly Thing

Liar

God Save the Queen

Submission

Satellite

No Feelings

No Fun

Problems

E.M.I.

My Way

Anarchy in the U.K.