Public Image Ltd. went up towards 5 different acts on a particular version of RTE’s The Late Late Show for the appropriate to characterize Ireland at Eurovision in Liverpool this May. (Although John Lydon was born in England, his dad and mom have been from Ireland, so the band competed for the appropriate to characterize the Emerald Isle.) Ultimately, the band got here in fourth place, so they won’t be competing within the event.
Public Image Ltd. weren’t the world’s almost certainly Eurovision contestants: dubby post-punk pioneers 45 years into their profession, fronted by the erstwhile Johnny Rotten, making a run on the ultra-cheesy televised music contest that gave us Måneskin and an absurd Will Ferrell parody movie that solely type of felt like parody. Nor was “Hawaii,” PiL’s first tune in eight years, your common Eurovision Song Contest entry. Rather than a lowest-common-denominator cheese fest, it’s a devastating textured ballad about Lydon’s spouse’s descent into Alzheimer’s.
Watch the efficiency beneath.