Scarborough - Coast

Holidays In The Sun: Sex Pistols, Scarborough & The Seaside - Scarborough Library

Date:
Sat 2 May 2026 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM

About Holidays In The Sun: Sex Pistols, Scarborough & The Seaside - Scarborough Library

This exhibition by Ian Trowell explores the coming together of the UKs inaugural punk band the Sex Pistols and the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. The band played a handful of dates in Yorkshire to mark their first venture outside of the relative safety net of London where they had a growing following. The gig at Scarborough Penthouse was their second date, falling on Thursday 20thMay 1976. The band were relatively unknown and punk was yet to be named as a dangerous new subculture. The exhibition revisits the time by contrasting the everydayness of Scarborough and the extraordinariness of the Sex Pistols.

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Saturday 2 May 10:00am Free Book Now
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