"You're nothing but a fanny to me right now," John Lydon tells Red Symons.

Public Image Ltd will perform in Melbourne in April as part of the band's first Australian tour in 20 years.

Speaking to Red Symons ahead of the tour, front man John Lydon called Red 'a fanny'.

"Shut your f---ing mouth, you ----hole," says John Lydon.

"You're nothing but a fanny to me right now."

John Lydon said he had a more interesting career than Red.

"I'm Johnny, you know, I'm a lad, I'm a man about town, a man about the world," says the former Sex Pistols frontman.

"You've got your career and I've got mine, I think mine's a little bit more interesting than yours, Mr DJ," says John Lydon.

"Shut it," he says.

John Lydon speaks to Red Symons on 774 ABC Melbourne Breakfast.