Sex Pistols @ Ogden
Sex Pistols x Starcrawler
10.09.2026
Starcrawler
Starcrawler is as modern punk as you can get. The name alone sets high expectations and you wouldn’t expect it to be a group of mid to late twenty-year-olds to embody classic punk as noteworthily as they do. Hailing all the way from LA, the 4 piece, was elated to be performing alongside Sex Pistols at the Ogden.
With high octane, crunchy, distorted energetic guitar riffs sounding like they should be scoring action thriller cinema, with wailing punk vocals from Arrow de Wilde (vocals and also punk as fuck name) that carry with effortless punctuation from high tempo drum fills. While walking around they even elicited a “Fuck yeah this is awesome” from an older punk gentlemen in the upper balcony of the Ogden. A short and sweet thirty that left everyone itching for more, a cliff hanger almost, and an ally-oop in a sense.
This LA based band absolutely showed up giving everyone a taste of what modern day punks looks and sounds like, the perfect opener to be billed alongside a longtime punk legend like Sex Pistols.
Sex Pistols
First and foremost, it is incredibly surreal to have the opportunity and chance to shoot a band as iconic and noteworthy as Sex Pistols, the band returning to a touring run for their 50th anniversary, with three of their original members Steve Jones (guitar), Paul Cook (drums), Glen Matlock (bass), alongside Frank Carter filling in for vocals for this tour. There is sometimes trepidation with there being a replacement vocalist, a lot of a bands’ sonic identity can stem and originate from the vocalist, however Frank continuously brought a level of energy that would extinguish any doubts of him being able to handle the mantle of being the vocalist on this tour.
By the end of the third song, Carter had leapt into the crowd, practically touring the entirety of the Ogden, making his way through the pits and even all the way up to the ADA section, continuously encouraging moshing and crowd participation, making the Ogden feel like a communal punk venue for folks of all ages. At one point during the latter half of the set, Carter even had a member of the crowd ejected for making negative comments when Carter asked for there to be a femme only mosh pit, wishing to create a safe space for feminine fans at a punk show for just a singular song. There is a clip online that has been circulating from the event as well. Which going as far as having someone ejected for heckling that wish, is in my opinion, incredible, empowering, awesome, and punk as fuck. On the topic of the crowd, the crowd as a whole was very diverse, not having one specific demographic, seeing punks with their “battle jackets” both young and old in and out of the pit.
With Carter at the helm, there was quite the large stage presence (for the moments he was on stage at least), utilizing the entirety, pacing around, jumping, encouraging a level of liveliness you wouldn’t think a band that's been established for 50 years would have at a show.
