Do you know where this symbol is from?

Nate Silvers · 19 Jun 2012 at 14:54

The only thing I can tell you is that it's a tattoo on someone from the late 80s maybe early 90s.

paradigm · 19 Jun 2012 at 14:55

http://www.pilofficial.com/info.html ????

DcD · 19 Jun 2012 at 14:56

Tin Eye says no. I've never seen it before.

Marky · 19 Jun 2012 at 14:56

Think it's a band...

Public Image Ltd (also known as PiL)

InKursion · 19 Jun 2012 at 14:57

PiL are the post-punk band that formed after the Sex Pistols disbanded.

Basically it's a tattoo that post-punkers will have as a badge of inclusion.

Feek · 19 Jun 2012 at 15:33

It is Public Image Ltd. Recognised it at once, as will other members of the older generation. I'd be surprised if 4T5 didn't twig straight away as well.

PapaLazaru · 19 Jun 2012 at 15:40

Saw them at Reading Festival in 1992.

Nate Silvers · 19 Jun 2012 at 15:47

Haha that's funny, I never knew my Dad liked punk bands, I like Sex Pistols and love punk. I'm gonna check out this band. I hate tattoos though.

Thanks guys.

Freakbro · 19 Jun 2012 at 15:59

Rise was their best known song, which is excellent

Snograt · 19 Jun 2012 at 16:26

Finding out your dad used to be a punk - awesome

ots3go · 19 Jun 2012 at 16:32

Shall be seeing these chaps at Rebellion this year, looking forward to it.

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Nate Silvers · 19 Jun 2012 at 18:35

Snograt said:
Finding out your dad used to be a punk - awesome

Haha yeah though my girlfriend doesn't think so she is saying I don't like punk but I listen to Leftovercrack, Operation Ivy, Only Ones, Toy Dolls and Mad Capsule Market (early) to name a few. She said I shouldn't say I like punk like my Dad liked it :/

Even if he was more into punk than me I still like it, how many other dads liked punk?

They are still going too after all this time, nice. I'm gonna wear a t shirt with Johnny Rotten on it when I go see my Nanna to see what she says haha.

SexyGreyFox · 19 Jun 2012 at 18:38

They even paid Steve Vai to play on an album with them but they were bloody awful.

dirtychinchilla · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:09

If that is their best song...I can't see what they ever had going for them.

ElliorR · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:22

dirtychinchilla said:
If that is their best song...I can't see what they ever had going for them.

Each to their own and all that.

I thought they were brilliant. Some school friends and I went to see them in our home town in 1983 when we were 16.

InKursion · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:34

Nate Silvers said:
Haha yeah though my girlfriend doesn't think so she is saying I don't like punk but I listen to Leftovercrack, Operation Ivy, Only Ones, Toy Dolls and Mad Capsule Market (early) to name a few. She said I shouldn't say I like punk like my Dad liked it :/

Even if he was more into punk than me I still like it, how many other dads liked punk?

They are still going too after all this time, nice. I'm gonna wear a t shirt with Johnny Rotten on it when I go see my Nanna to see what she says haha.

PiL were not punk, though, so don't consider your dad a punk just because John Lydon was the front-man. PiL marked a massive departure FROM punk music, i.e. the Sex Pistols phase that had come before. PiL are more musically in common with Joy Division than they are with the Sex Pistols. That's why a lot less people liked them (see above): their music was more avant-garde, experimental, weird, and a bit hit and miss. Punk was three chords played fast and sloppy with distortion. Post-punk was a different genre altogether, really.

Edrof · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:37

Oh Hi John Lydon, those butter adverts are so punk.

Snograt · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:42

Punk was never about music or talent, more about meaning, exuberance and general stick-it-to-the-man attitude.

That being said, I hated punk.

ThriceNightly · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:43

hello hello hello

IRLeetly · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:44

Edrof said:
Oh Hi John Lydon, those butter adverts are so punk.

Supporting farmers is punk though.....