{"id":1123,"date":"2020-02-21T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advertizer.co.uk\/insight\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T11:32:27","slug":"glen-matlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advertizer.co.uk\/insight\/glen-matlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Matlock Q&A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Punk Legend Glen Matlock and his friends Earl Slick, Jim Lowe (Bass) & Chris Musto (drums) are back on the road. The band of longtime friends play songs from Glen\u2019s solo career and and rocka billy versions of Sex Pistols classics. Glen was the youngest member of The Sex Pistols at only 16 and he wrote many of their hits from God Save The Queen, he also played for many years in Iggy Pop’s band. Slick was Bowie\u2019s guitarist. We caught up with Glen ahead of their gig at The Bungalow in Paisley to ask him a few questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You were incredibly young to be so involved with the punk scene. Can you tell us what it was like to be there, in the thick of it, as a 16 year old boy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well I guess it was my late 16s when I first met Steve and Paul and we started giving it a go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas an exciting time as by then we had already forged a bit of a name for\nourselves. We found ourselves hanging out at the very epicentre of hip London\ncourtesy of Malcolm McLarens\u2019 Teddy Boy shop whose doors every prime mover of\nthe nascent punk scene stepped through. It was a buzz to the bit of grit in the\noyster that the pearl grew around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a buzz to be the bit of grit in the oyster that the pearl grew around. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paisley has a bit of a punk legacy \u2013 many of the punks being refused gigs in Glasgow and ended up coming through to Paisley instead. Did you ever make it up here in the 70s? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I hear. Never played there with the Pistols although we did play a college in Dundee in \u201876 where we were bottled off because the crowd had heard we liked that kind of thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Might have played there with the Rich Kids but my brain is a little rusty on that, but we have played there in more recent years and have always dug the crowds unbridled enthusiasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We found ourselves hanging out at the very epicentre of hip London courtesy of Malcolm McLarens\u2019 Teddy Boy shop whose doors every prime mover of the nascent punk scene stepped through. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many people know that you and John Lydon didn\u2019t see eye to eye and you left The Sex Pistols on acrimonious terms. Did it feel different when you reformed? What are relations like now? <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have had no need to speak since we walked offstage at what is probably the band\u2019s last ever gig in Vitoria in the Basque Country in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to think we have mutual begrudging respect but then I\u2019m not always right. I do like John\u2019s quote though that says that while the band are not the best of friends, we are also not the worst of enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pretty Vacant, God Save the Queen… both became hits after you left. You\u2019re quoted as saying that leaving cost you millions. Does that sting still?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of things.  One is, that you do get a chance to clawback over the years. Also, letting go and moving on is a higher priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Iggy Pop as wild as he looks?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pretty\nmuch but he is also a highly intelligent and erudite gentleman. You just don\u2019t\nalways know which one is going to turn up on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you meet Earl Slick? How does your partnership work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a session with some mutual chums in the States.I think we hit off in Jack Lmon, Walter Matheu kind of way and have been rock and roll sparring partners on and off since. Don\u2019t tell him but I think he is pretty nifty on the guitar and brings out the best in the toe tapping tunes I come up with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there a song you wish you\u2019d written?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenty\nbut I wouldn\u2019t have minded being credited with What Kind of Fool am I? by\nAnthony Newley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which song are you most proud of writing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018On Something\u2019 on an album by me of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Glen Matlock Band Featuring Earl Slick will be playing The Bungalow in Paisley on 6th March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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