December 19th Unable to find any more venues from the original list the Pistols return to Manchester for another gig at the Electric Circus. Again the location of the venue in a rough part of town led to a lot of trouble for those who attended the gig. Peter Hook (Joy Division and later New Order) remembers local youths throwing bottles at the punks from the top of the nearby flats. The first and only issue of 'Anarchy in the UK' fanzine is on sale featuring photos of the London scene and pro-situationist sloganeering by McLaren, Westwood, and the rest of the Sex team.
December 20th A spur of the moment gig takes place at Cleethorpes to replace the original Birmingham date which has been cancelled.
December 21st and 22nd The tour finally ends with two nights at the Woods Centre in Plymouth. This is in sharp contrast to the planned finale which was to have seen the bands play at the Roxy in Harlesden , London where most of the rehearsals had taken place and where a large 'home' crowd were expected. Despite the Damned having second bill on the ticket they had been thrown off the tour earlier in the month and the Clash had taken their place. The Clash had got better and better as the tour went on while the Pistols had seemed tense and lacking the spark of earlier gigs. The Sex Pistols single 'Anarchy in the UK' reached 27 in the charts but the bands arrived back in London broke and tired. Joe Strummer remembers getting off the tour bus and walking off cold and miserable with no where in particular to go.
December 21st was also the first night of the Roxy Club which was opened by Generation X with their new line up which had split off from Chelsea and the new version of Siouxsie and the Banshees. The club was funded by Andy Czezowski who took on the small rundown premises in Neal Street, Covent Garden and installed Don Letts as the club's DJ. He had previously been involved in ACME Atractions clothes shop near to Malcolm McLaren's shop on the Kings Road .Letts filled the time between bands with a selection of reggae and version dubs because at the time there were still only two or three 'Punk' records to play.In many ways he is responsible for cementing the bond between reggae and punk which characterised the original scene. Sniffin Glue advertised free membership in the December issue and soon the Roxy became the focus of the rapidly growing scene. As a regular hang-out many people turned up whether a band was on or not and it allowed a place for bands to be formed and ideas to be knocked about. In the increasingly hostile atmoshere towards punk, the Roxy also provided one of the only venues for newly formed bands to play in.

December 25th The Sex Pistols, The Clash and the Damned attend a Xmas party at the home of Jonh Ingham the Sounds journalist. Also present are many of the bands entourage including Sid Vicious. Johnny Thunders band the Heartbreakers arrived and proceed to shoot up heroin and introduce the English musicians to this new and destructive habit. Nancy Spungen had come over to England earlier in the month looking for Jerry Nolan of the Heartbreakers. Sid managed to avoid smack at first but when Nancy latched on to him he took it up with enthusiasm. The party was a dead loss because by this time most of the bands and their managers were deeply distrustful of each other and were putting ambition ahead of any sense of unity. The unfortunate fact was that after Punk had hit the headlines , a lot of its possibilities had been destroyed. Lots of the more intellectual and artistic aims of the movement were ignored by the media who chose to dwell on the gratuitous and sensational aspects which sold copy . As bands formed up and down the country many chose simply to copy what had gone before rather than create new and original work. Fanzines appeared up and down the country which in many cases proved to be truer reflection of the punk spirit than the music itself.

December 26th The Ramones are stuck in London having come over early for some gigs in the New Year. At this time London was virtually a ghost town over the holiday period so they spend a lot of time in their hotel and write the song 'I Wanna be Sedated'

December 29th In Manchester, Pete Shelley produces the first issue of his shortlived fanzine Plaything which folds when his brother loses the use of a photocopier after issue 2
January 01st The Roxy heralds the new year with a gig headlined by the Clash including Joe Strummer wearing his now famous 1977 shirt. Generally the feeling was that the punk movement was ready to take on the establishment in the new year. This opinion was strengthened by the input from reggae bands like Culture whose 'Two Sevens Clash' track claimed to prophesise big changes in society. McLaren and Westwoods shop was also refitted and Sex was transformed into its most famous incarnation, Seditionaries . As Malcolm was now working exclusively with the Pistols, Vivienne Westwood was left to design new clothing and run the shop throughout it's most infamous period.