PiL played Terminal 5 (pics, setlist) & Jimmy Fallon (video)

May 19, 2010

“Despite the leather-clad, spikyhaired lookalikes who peppered the audience at Terminal 5 last night, there is only one Johnny Rotten.

Rotten, 54, who these days goes by his given name, John Lydon, is still the brash, politically outspoken, anti-authoritarian punk who assaulted music, first as a Sex Pistol and then by leading the post-punk movement with his other band, Public Image LTD.

This show resurrected PiL after an 18-year New York performance hiatus. And the band’s kitchen-sink mix of rock, noise, dance and pop remains as strange and engaging as its frontman.” [NY Post]

Public Image Ltd played Terminal 5 in NYC last night (Tueday, 5/18). It was the band’s first of two NYC shows. The next is at the smaller Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight (5/19). The reunion tour, which began around Coachella also included a performance on Kimmel. On Monday, the band made their second TV appearance, but this time on Fallon. A video from that, with more Terminal 5 pics and the setlist below….