A capacity audience turned out for an angry man in Bexhill who has no love for hot sweaty nuns and priests, politicians, or some of the former members of the Sex Pistols.

John Lydon promoting his autobiography Anger Is An Energy My Life Uncensored staged at the De La Warr Pavilion by City Books may on the outset just sound like the angry man’s rant in the pub - but a man you would be happy to have a pint with.

Lydon, in conversation with Alexis Petridis, gave a passionate and intelligent insight into his life from his childhood, his recovery from meningitis and how that affected his relationship with his parents, through the Pistols era and his friendship with Sid Vicious who clearly still deeply misses.

He touched briefly on his television appearance on I’m A Celebrity..., his reasons for doing it - which lead to his great love of the natural world and his subsequent nature programmes - and his advertisements for butter, the proceeds of which funded an album of his great musical love Public Image Ltd.

An entertaining evening concluded with a Q&A session with the audience from the once reviled Johnny Rotten to the now revered John Lydon, he is in his own words: “A work in progress”.