Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller watch Sex Pistols and Frank Carter’s blistering ‘secret’ 100 Club show

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Sex Pistols returned to the 100 Club last night (Friday March 21), almost 50 years after their legendary 1976 residency at the venue, for an incendiary secret warm-up show for Monday’s Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall.

Check out photos, footage and the setlist below.The punk icons reformed last year with Carter, of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Gallows, replacing John Lydon as frontman.

They played three small gigs at Bush Hall in the capital before embarking on an autumn UK tour and announcing a headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.Last week, they ‘secretly’ teased a gig at the iconic 100 Club as a warm-up for the RAH show as “a mystery group who will be known as The SPOTS”.

This was a name adopted by the original Sex Pistols – an acronym for “Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly”. They used the pseudonym to book shows in 1977, when it was likely that police would have shut down Sex Pistols gigs as the band faced intense media scrutiny.With tickets sold out swiftly via ballot, the night came for the gig.