Jamie Reid | Handbill for the Screen on the Green, 29 August 1976

Jamie Reid

Handbill for the Screen on the Green, 29 August 1976

(291 x 240mm.)

The Screen on the Green Midnight Special was a showcase of the punk bands organised by McLaren. The Sex Pistols were supported by Buzzcocks and The Clash (their second public performance). It was reviewed by Charles Shaar Murray for the NME (11 September 1976): ‘The Pistols are all those short-haired kids in the big boots and rolled-up baggies and sleeveless T-shirts. Their music is coming from the straight-out-of-school-and-onto-the-dole deathtrap which we seem to have engineered for Our Young: the 76 British terminal stasis, the modern urban blind alley.’

The lettering of this handbill is all in Jamie Reid's handwriting and Reid engineered the layout. This again shows evidence of the essential collaborative nature of the designwork behind the Sex Pistols; it also incorporates contact strips from a concert at the 100 Club by Ray Stevenson as well as images of Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones.