Public Image Ltd have announced details of their first album in eight years and a handful of UK tour dates. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 14 April. Find a full list of the band’s UK tour dates at the bottom of this article.

Set for release on Friday 11 August, the new album is titled End Of World and is dedicated to the memory of John Lydon’s late wife Nora Forster, who died last week at the age of 80. The album features ‘Hawaii’, which was written as a ‘love letter’ to Forster and which gained public prominence when the band used the song in a bid to represent Ireland at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. They lost out to Dublin-based act Wild Youth. Lydon, who was Forster’s carer in the latter part of her life, said of the song, ‘It is dedicated to everyone going through tough times on the journey of life, with the person they care for the most.’

Listen to ‘Hawaii’ below. 

To mark the news of the new album, the band have also released the new track ‘Penge’. Listen below. 

Tracklisting for End Of World: 

1. ‘Penge’
2. ‘End Of The World”
3. ‘Car Chase’
4. ‘Being Stupid Again’
5. ‘Walls’
6. ‘Pretty Awful’
7. ‘Strange’
8. ‘Down On The Clown’
9. ‘Dirty Murky Delight’
10. ‘The Do That’
11. ‘LFCF’
12. ‘North West Passage’
13. ‘Hawaii’

Public Image Ltd’s 2023 UK tour dates: 
Monday 11 September – Patti Pavilion, Swansea
Tuesday 12 September – Dreamland, Margate
Wednesday 13 September – Engine Shed, Lincoln
Friday 15 September – King George’s Hall, Blackburn
Saturday 16 September – Tivoli, Buckley
Monday 18 September – Fire Station, Sunderland
Tuesday 19 September – Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen
Thursday 21 September – O2 Academy, Edinburgh
Friday 22 September – O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 23 September – Picture Dome, Holmfirth
Monday 25 September – HMV Empire, Coventry
Tuesday 26 September – Chalk, Brighton
Thursday 28 September – O2 Academy, Bristol
Friday 29 September – Foundry, Torquay
Saturday 30 September – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

Tickets for Public Image Ltd’s UK tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 14 April.