The Sex Pistols at Auckland Town Hall prove punk is not dead

By Nik Dirga of RNZ Punk is dead, people have been saying since 1978 or so. Of course, that’s a lie. It’s still there, just constantly changing.

The Sex Pistols led the first wave of punk that outraged a strait-laced Britain and then the world in a blazing comet of a career that lasted only two and a half years. Can the mostly reunited punk pioneers still thrash the system, 50 years after four London misfits formed the band? In a raucous celebration of noisy rebellion at Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday night, three of the original Pistols and singer Frank Carter showed there’s plenty of life left in anarchy..