Matlock plays a London residency with five nights at the Boisdale Club in Canary Wharf, London, from 30 July to 3 August. Here are a couple of songs myself and Earl Slick put down in a basement tapes meets the odd couple kind of vibe when Earl got stuck in lockdown in London with me in 2020. In my live show I do a bit of everything to keep everybody including myself happy. (ORANGE SOLD OUT, BLACK HALF SOLD OUT) From Glen: Hi guys, gals and pop pickers. He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on the Sex Pistols' only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. I didn’t set out to write a Sex Pistols album and fail miserably. Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician, best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
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They are acoustic versions of a couple of songs from my new forthcoming full band album. It’s quite personal, but there are some tongue-in-cheek funny bits in it. From Glen: Hi guys, gals and pop pickers.
“When it comes to music, I like some actual music in the music!” says Matlock of the album. (Credit: Alamy) Before too long, the band were making waves across the British live scene, and whilst on the road, they would go on to influence everybody from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Joy Division. Matlock went on to work with an extraordinary array of musicians including Iggy Pop, the Dammed, Primal Scream, Mick Jones, Midge Ure, Gary Kemp, Ronnie Wood and such punkn contemporaries as Rusty Egan, Mike Peters, Tom Robinson and Kirk Brandon. Matlock was only 16 when he joined the Pistols, and co-wrote such iconic punk songs of theirs as ‘Pretty Vacant,’ ‘Anarchy In The UK’ and ‘God Save The Queen.’ By the release of their seminal Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols album, he had been replaced in acrimonious circumstances by Sid Vicious. I think Bowie would have been proud of that song. Glen Matlock & The Philistines T.R.O.U.B.L.E. I said let’s go with it and he built it up. “The sustained sound in the background behind the guitar riff was Earl, it’s pretty off the wall. The basic chord structure is like ‘Spanish Harlem’ or ‘Stand By Me,’ juxtaposed with Earl’s Ebow guitar which is like something from Bowie’s ‘Heroes.’ I think ‘Speak Too Soon’ is my favourite song on the album.
In the words of Lennon, I’m writing for the kids that have grown up with me. “It’s well known I like the Faces and a bit of Bob Dylan, and it’s all incorporated in there somewhere.