PUBLIC IMAGE, GOODBYE.

I thought about the P.I.L gigs just gone as they were coming up and remembered that the last P.I.L gig I went to only lasted about half an hour, included 'Anarchy in the U.K' (not what I was there to hear although it was a pleasantly rollocking version), didn't include an encore, and the tickets cost a small fortune for the time . They sounded good, but brief and fleeting. When we added it up after the gig, P.I.L playing live seemed to be costing us about 50p a minute
I didn't want or go for SEX PISTOLS songs, I wanted to hear P.I.L stuff, and some material from albums one and two, not just 'This is not a love song' followed by the first single, Flowers of romance (for the chart fans) and then an old cover version!
Without an encore plus the short set, there wasn't much time for many of the longer tunes, which tend to be the older ones-although not all the time.
They were bloody great live when I saw them I freely admit, but they did deliver very little in terms of stage time, 'on and off' as soon as possible was the given impression, despite the enthusiastic reception they received after every song.

I just didn't want to go just to be left wanting and a bit disappointed like that again (as well as feeling like a clown for boosting his bloody ego, taking the piss like that by playing for such a short time despite the steep price to get in), as I was last time.
I dunno, maybe he now plays encores, or a bit longer and does no Pistols tunes now that they plod around the bloated  and commercialised, corporate 'festival' circuit (they are just concerts in fields, not festivals) once more.
So maybe it would of been a longer set.
If anyone is reading this who did go to see them, please let me know what I missed.
Was it great gig, or a great pile of shite?