Here We Go!
Time for another look at something from the collection.
This time it’s the Anarchy In Sweden ’77 EP — three tracks, one apiece from three different Swedish shows.
🧷 Basic Specs
- Title: Anarchy In Sweden ’77
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: 7″ single (33 1/3rpm)
- Released: January 2024
- Label / catalogue no.: Not On Label
- Sleeve: picture sleeve
45rpm is the standard for a 7″, but this one’s an EP — extended play — so it runs at 33 1/3rpm to fit more onto each side.
🧷 Track Listing
A1：EMI
B1：I Wanna Be Me
B2：Seventeen
🧷 Pressing & Variant Details
✔️ Matrix numbers
- Side A: Sweep 77-A
- Side B: Sweep 77-B
✔️ Sleeve
Photos of the band. Front: Johnny and Sid. Back: Steve and Paul. No insert included.
✔️ Labels
White labels both sides, stamped text.
Side A: just “SEX PISTOLZ” and “SIDE ONE”.
Side B: the band name, “SIDE TWO”, and “SVERIGE 77”.
🧷 A collector’s notes
✔️ The tracks
EMI：
Live at Club Zebra, Kristinehamn, 19th July 1977. At the time this EP came out, this was the headline attraction: a previously unreleased recording, and both the sound and the performance hold up well. Various LPs from the same show turned up later.
I Wanna Be Me：
Live at Diskotek Stranden, Halmstad, 15th July 1977. Already out elsewhere, but the sound and the playing here are just as good.
Seventeen：
Live at Glädjehuset, Stockholm, 28th July 1977. Also already out elsewhere, though the sound’s rougher than the other two. Still, it’s far more listenable than most bootlegs. The pitch’s still running slightly fast, as ever. I do wonder whether the version put out for the 35th anniversary sits at the correct pitch.
✔️ The labels
The label text doesn’t match the sleeve.
SEX PISTOLZ
On the habit of swapping “s” for “z” in bootleg pressings — this crops up across English-language slang and subculture more broadly, and it’s a familiar trick in punk and rock bootlegs too. The swap is said to lend an African, German or Polish feel, or perhaps something more scientific-sounding. There’s a similar story behind the word “jazz” — the spelling “jass” is supposed to have given way to “jazz” simply because it looked sharper.
SVERIGE 77
“Sverige” is Swedish for “Sweden” — the name Swedes themselves use for their own country. Why the label alone is in Swedish, I couldn’t say…
✔️ Pressing numbers?
When I bought this, the shop had it listed as “limited to 200 copies.” That’s probably in the right ballpark, but I’ve found nothing to back it up. A blue variant with an insert came out around the same time, apparently pressed in a run of 25 — according to Discogs. Still digging on this one.
🧷 Next timeUp
next: the “10th Anniversary Album” (2140009). See you then!
byebye👋
For collectors interested in Japanese editions
If you are drawn to the design and information found on Japanese releases, particularly obi strips, you may want to take a look at my Never Mind The Bollocks Japanese CD OBI Gallery.
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It is intended as an entry point for those interested in Japanese obi strips.
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