Public Image Ltd review – Lydon’s unrefined invective still engrossing

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
John Lydon, punk’s eternal provocateur, comes on like a commedia dell’arte performer trying to ruin a perfectly good funk-pop band
Venues are bulldozed to make way for more forests of empty gold-brick investment flats. The co-writer of All About That Bass trousers a mere £3,700 for 178m Pandora streams. Clean Bandit hire Cortana as their new manager. Principle, it appears, is for the past. Like it or not, we live in a sellout society –