SEX PISTOLS (Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock) featuring Frank Carter

The Read

Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock are the players who made the records sound the way they do: Jones’s stacked guitars, Cook’s straight-ahead drumming, Matlock’s melodic bass and considerable songwriting hand in the early material. Frank Carter, of Gallows and the Rattlesnakes, takes the front. He is a genuinely combustible performer rather than a tribute-act impersonator, which is the only version of this that makes sense. Marathon Music Works is a converted industrial space with a big open floor, appropriate for a set that will run short and fast. The catalog is not deep — one album and change — so expect roughly seventy minutes of material everyone knows. The question is whether it lands as a living band or a curated artifact. Carter is the variable, and he is a good one.

The Room

Marathon Music Works

1402 Clinton St

A large, open, industrial room in Marathon Village for the tours that need more floor than a club and less ceremony than an arena.