Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003

Sex Pistols

With Reverend Horton Heat , Dropkick Murphys

Date
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003
Show time
8:00 PM
Venue
FleetBoston Pavilion
City
Boston, MA
Seating
Section 1
Face value
$40.00
Sold by
Ticketmaster

290 Northern Ave. Rain or shine. Reverend Horton Heat and Dropkick Murphys opened; setlist.fm logs all three sets, the Dropkicks playing fifteen songs on their home turf.

What they played

  1. Bodies
  2. Seventeen
  3. New York
  4. No Feelings
  5. Did You No Wrong
  6. Belsen Was a Gas "Baghdad Was a Blast" version
  7. God Save the Queen
  8. Liar
  9. No Fun The Stooges cover
  10. Submission
  11. Holidays in the Sun
  12. Pretty Vacant
  13. E.M.I.

Encore

  1. Anarchy in the U.K.
  2. Problems

16 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

What Dropkick Murphys played

  1. Caught in a Jar
  2. The Black Velvet Band [traditional] cover
  3. Walk Away
  4. The Dirty Glass
  5. The Outcast
  6. The Spicy McHaggis Jig
  7. The Gauntlet
  8. Amazing Grace John Newton cover
  9. Time to Go
  10. Forever
  11. Heroes From Our Past
  12. Good Rats
  13. Rocky Road to Dublin D.K. Gavan cover
  14. If I Were a Carpenter Tim Hardin cover
  15. Worker's Song

15 songs, from setlist.fm.

The moment

Twenty-six years after 'no future,' the Sex Pistols played a corporate shed on Boston's waterfront for forty dollars a head — and the honesty was the point. Since the Filthy Lucre reunion, Lydon had said out loud what every reunion act won't: they were doing it for the money, and the money was ours to give or keep. The Dropkick Murphys, Boston's punk inheritors, opened on home turf — the genre's grandchildren warming up its inventors. Sneering, well-compensated history.

From the time

The stub