this week in 1976

April 23rd The Sex Pistols play the Nashville Rooms for the second time , this time supporting the 101ers again. This gig is infamous for the violence involving Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren and the rest of the Sex Pistols. It was reported in the NME by Neil Tennant, at the time a journalist and later to be one of the Pet Shop Boys

Johnny Rotten maintains that it was blown out of all proportion , just "fisticuffs and handbags really".
A vinyl bootleg of this gig exists titled "Nashville" which features the full set and comes in a Bash Street Kids style cartoon cover.

April 24th The first big Sex Pistols article appears in Sounds music paper.( The cover date was the 24th but the paper came out on the previous thursday just before the Nashville gig.) The majority of the two page spread is taken up with John Inghams interview and first impressions of the Pistols at the El Paradise strip club gig at the beginning of the month . In it he sums up the well known history of how the band started out and compares them to the New York scene. Johnny Rotten claims that they have nothing what so ever to do with the Americans and comes out with a few inflammatory remarks summing up the bands outlook." I'm against people who just complain about Top of the Pops and don't do anything. I want people to go out and start something , or else I'm just wasting my time."
Interestingly no mention of punk rock is made in this article because at this time no-one had managed to pin the Pistols down with a genre and no-one had used the punk tag yet.