PiL Bring The Fire Back To Europe In 2026

Location: B90, Gdańsk 
Date: 12/05/2026
Organizer: Live Nation Poland

The great cultural prankster of British music is back on the road. Public Image Ltd are rolling through Europe in May and June 2026 with a full 23 date run that cuts across the continent like a high voltage cable, buzzing with old tension and new purpose. And in the middle of that route, right where things tend to get loud and sweaty, sits Gdańsk. More precisely, B90.

PiL have always lived in contradiction. Formed in the ashes of The Sex Pistols, the band was John Lydon reinventing himself after the cultural detonation of “Never Mind The Bollocks“. Instead of chasing punk nostalgia, he birthed something stranger and deeper. “Metal Box”, “The Flowers Of Romance”, “Album”, records that still sound like they arrived from a world that never quite existed but probably should have.

Lydon never traded in comfort. He traded in confrontation, honesty, and the kind of artistic stubbornness that kept PiL alive through shifting lineups, hostile eras, and scenes that didn’t know what to do with them. That’s exactly why the band matters now. They aged, but never softened.

The 2026 trek starts in Brussels on 3 May and lands in Cologne on 8 June, covering Rotterdam grit, Berlin steel, Mediterranean sweat, and Eastern European concrete charm. For the first time, PiL hit Hungary and Luxembourg. Spain waits for confirmation. Poland gets four stops, which says a lot about how the band’s sound fits this region’s industrial heartbeat.

And then comes 12 May 2026.

B90 is a venue built on rust, oil, and noise. It is the kind of place where guitars sound meaner and voices echo a little longer. When PiL walk on that stage, it will not be a nostalgia trip. It will be a collision. Lydon’s raw rasp scraping at the walls while the bass churns like machinery under strain. It is a room that rewards authenticity and punishes pretence. PiL thrive in those conditions.

Expect a setlist that jumps between eras. Expect “Public Image” to hit like a threat, “This Is Not A Love Song” to turn into a communal yell, and the newer material to prove the band are not a museum piece, but a living, mutating organism. Lydon these days is less snarl, more scar tissue, but that only sharpens his delivery.

With Poznan, Warsaw, and Krakow following right after, Poland essentially gets a PiL micro tour. But B90 is the one that feels dangerous in the best possible way. A band born out of post punk’s cold fury playing a club carved out of shipyard iron. It’s poetic in its own jagged way.

The Dates In Full
Saturday 2 May Southampton
Sunday 3 May Brussels
Tuesday 5 May Antwerp
Wednesday 6 May Nijmegen
Thursday 7 May Amsterdam
Saturday 9 May Hamburg
Monday 11 May Berlin
Tuesday 12 May Gdansk, B90
Wednesday 13 May Poznan
Friday 15 May Warsaw
Saturday 16 May Krakow
Tuesday 19 May Zagreb
Wednesday 20 May Budapest
Friday 22 May Prague
Saturday 23 May Vienna
Tuesday 26 May Milan
Wednesday 27 May Montpellier
Friday 29 May Spain TBC
Saturday 30 May Spain TBC
Wednesday 3 June Rennes
Thursday 4 June Paris
Friday 5 June Lyon
Sunday 7 June Kayl
Monday 8 June Cologne

If there is one band you don’t watch from the back of the room, it is PiL. Especially not at B90. This is a show built for sweat, friction, and the beautiful chaos that happens when a legendary outsider band meets a venue that understands the value of being loud on purpose.