John Lydon is bringing Public Image Ltd back to Dallas for the first time in seven years — and the first North American run the band has done in eleven — at a 1,000-capacity room in the Design District. That’s a telling calibration. This Is Not The Last Tour. The name is doing some work.
The backstory matters here. After losing his wife Nora Forster and longtime manager John “Rambo” Stevens in 2023, Lydon went quiet. Then the fan outpouring came. “People were so overwhelmingly positive,” he said. “They really showed me a lot of love, and they asked me to tour PiL again.” The result is a 42-date North American campaign — two legs, coast to coast — that nobody had penciled in.
PiL formed in 1978 when Lydon walked away from the Sex Pistols and immediately did something smarter. The original lineup — Keith Levene on guitar, Jah Wobble on bass — pushed post-punk into stranger territory than almost anyone working at the time. Metal Box (1979) still sounds disorienting. Flowers of Romance (1981) sounds like people who had decided percussion and dissonance were sufficient. Five UK Top 20 singles and five UK Top 20 albums came across their run, the commercial peak landing with “This Is Not A Love Song” in 1983 (UK number five), the catalog getting progressively more difficult and rewarding from there before a long hiatus that stretched from 1992 to 2009.
The current lineup — Lydon on vocals, Lu Edmonds on guitar, Scott Firth on bass, Mark Roberts on drums (in since late 2023) — has been working End of World (2023) and a live album, Alive, pulled from 2025 European dates. A twelfth studio album is in production, expected early 2027. This isn’t purely a nostalgia run. The catalog is deep enough that it doesn’t need to be.
About The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
The Echo Lounge & Music Hall holds up to 1,000 and sits off Stemmons in Dallas’s Design District — an A-list room that books with intention. For a PiL show, where Lydon’s presence and Firth’s bass-forward low end carry a lot of the weight, the room makes sense. You want the PA to do the job properly.
Supporting is Plague Vendor, out of Southern California — the right kind of opener for a night that ought to run at some voltage.
Tickets & Show Info
Doors at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, February 24, 2027. The Dallas show sits in the middle of a Texas run: San Antonio (Feb. 21), Austin (Feb. 23), Dallas (Feb. 24), Houston (Feb. 25). Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. For more DFW concerts, browse the full calendar.