John Lydon on Sid Vicious, and memories of his grandparents' house in Co Cork 

Anger is still an energy for the veteran rocker as he rails against 'woke nonsense' in advance of his gig with Public Image Limited in Dublin. He'll  be travelling over on an Irish passport 

John Lydon brings Public Image Limited to Dublin in June.  Picture By: Duncan Bryceland 

John Lydon is sporting a smart red tartan waistcoat during our chat on Zoom. Tartan has been a significant element of the singer’s apparel since the Sex Pistols in the 1970s but he suggests his love for the material began long before punk. “My mum used to make tartan waistcoats for me when I was a kid, she was very good at making them and would doll us up, I’ve got that affection for tartan from my mother,” says Lydon.

A picture of Lydon wearing the garment as a boy was featured in his 2014 autobiography Anger Is An Energy, a follow-up to Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. The son of an Irish father (Jimmy) born in Galway, and mother (Eileen Barry) from Carrigrohane near Ballincollig in Cork, Lydon informs me he remembers the Examiner before adding the family cottage “never bothered with floorboards, it was covered in newspaper and dirt.