The Enemy blast 'quiet' IOW crowd

The Enemy's Tom Clarke has criticised the Isle of Wight crowd for enjoying the Sex Pistols "quietly".

Clarke said he was dismayed by the polite nature of the audience during the punk band's headline slot at the festival.

Writing on his band's MySpace, the frontman complained about a man who told him and drummer Liam Watts to stop singing during 'God Save The Queen'.

"I wasn't alive in '76, and this geezer was," said Clarke. "He probably saw the '60s, when people thought music could genuinely change world politics, and he saw the punk movement tear away from romantic pop slop and say 'F*** the rules, f*** the system and let's go and be individual and have a good time'.

"This geezer lived through some of the most important decades of music [and] politics society has ever seen and somehow, [he] inexplicably managed to miss the point completely."

Clarke also criticised the festival's security for preventing crowd members from dancing.

"In my humble view this country, and our freedom to have a laff, is being strangled by red tape," commented the singer. "Health and safety madness. Dancing is not dangerous. Never was.

"If we can't have fun at a Sex Pistols gig, where are we all meant to go to let off some steam?"