More than five years after their last reunion tour, the Sex Pistols are planning a mini-tour of the UK to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their one and only album, Never Mind the BollocksHere’s the Sex Pistols. The group, with who knows who filling in for the late and unlamented Sid Vicious, will play five nights at the lovely Brixton Academy before finishing up with shows in Manchester and Glasgow. John Lydon (who got the nickname Johnny Rotten forwhat else?his teef) is now a grandfatherly 51, but he’s still got enough attitude for three or four normal people. Here’s what he had to say about the tour:

It’ll be awfully tiring on the old tonsils. That’s a lot of screaming to get out of the way. And we’re not what you’d call the fittest chaps on the block. I haven’t done a lot of performing in the last three years. But I sing whenever I’m in the shower – which is about twice a decade.

In the link, Lydon lives up to his punk image by trashing just about everyone on the current British music scene, although he saves a special helping of snark for Pete Doherty and the Libertines: “They’re all got up like Sid Viciousand Sid hadn’t got a clue how to dress.”