Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison

This is the sound of punk rock in its most literal cage.

Recorded in 1976 at Chelmsford Top Security Prison, the album captures the Sex Pistols before they became a global phenomenon, performing for an audience that was literally captive.

The atmosphere is thick with a manufactured sense of danger, thanks to the controversial decision by soundman Dave Goodman to overdub the recording with sounds of breaking glass and rioting inmates. It creates a surreal, hyper-realist document of punk's confrontational ethos.