After waiting 47 years for the first Sex Pistols concert in Minnesota, fans here are going to have to wait at least one more year for it.
The iconic British punk band — which has reformed without singer John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten — has postponed its upcoming Minneapolis gig and all other fall U.S. tour dates after guitarist Steve Jones broke his wrist.
Ticketholders for the Oct. 7 date at the Fillmore are being told to hang onto their tickets (priced $87-$189) for a makeup date yet to be announced.
Jones and the two other original Pistols, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock, recruited a younger loud-mouth Brit, ex-Gallows singer Frank Carter, to stand in on tour for Lydon, who has long feuded with his former bandmates. The group did not make it to the Midwest on its notorious 1978 tour of America before breaking up, and then it also skipped Minnesota on a 1996 reunion trek.
“I’ve got some good news and bad news. What do you want first?” Jones wrote in an Instagram post. “Okay, the bad news: I’ve broken my wrist, so unfortunately we won’t be doing any shows for a while.”
However, the guitarist added that the “good news is the surgeon said I will be back playing guitar in the not-too-distant future. The other good news is I’ll be 70 tomorrow!”
He ended the post by saying, “God bless, and God save the wrist.”
