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
- Bodies
- Seventeen
- New York
- No Feelings
- Did You No Wrong
- Belsen Was a Gas "Baghdad Was a Blast" version
- God Save the Queen
- Liar
- No Fun The Stooges cover
- Submission
- Holidays in the Sun
- Pretty Vacant
- E.M.I.
Encore
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- Problems
16 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Dropkick Murphys played
- Caught in a Jar
- The Black Velvet Band [traditional] cover
- Walk Away
- The Dirty Glass
- The Outcast
- The Spicy McHaggis Jig
- The Gauntlet
- Amazing Grace John Newton cover
- Time to Go
- Forever
- Heroes From Our Past
- Good Rats
- Rocky Road to Dublin D.K. Gavan cover
- If I Were a Carpenter Tim Hardin cover
- 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
- Sex Pistols
“The band that invented punk's refusal, reunited on terms of cheerful, self-declared mercenariness.”