Jamie Reid | Never Mind the Bans, the Sex Pistols Will Play, promotional poster, 1977

Jamie Reid

Never Mind the Bans, the Sex Pistols Will Play, promotional poster for their last British tour, December 1977

(990 x 690mm.), short tear to left margin

Produced for their last British tour, known as "Nevermind the Bans" and proclaiming that "Sex Pistols will play". The poster incorporates several letters of cancellation from promoters and councils; in the event, four of the eight original dates (Bristol, Rochdale, Wolverhampton and Birkenhead) were cancelled through illness, or police and council pressure.