Liverpool Friends of Palestine will be leafleting outside Liverpool 's O2 Academy on Saturday evening. Public Image Limited are playing there that evening. The band is headed by John Lydon, formerly and better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols.
The protest is held because the band's tour culminates at the end of August with an appearance in Tel-Aviv (
A growing number of artists have decided to observe and support the cultural boycott. Last month Friends of Palestine leafleted Elvis Costello's
The attitude of John Lydon has been quite unrepentant. There have been protests at earlier concerts on this tour, most recently in
Tom Bimpson, chairman of the Friends of Palestine group, said "There is something rotten in the state of
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