If you’re in a band at my kind of age, everybody’s kind of doing stuff. But, yeah, over here it was released as Glen Matlock and the Philistines, and this new one is Glen Matlock and the Philistines, even though it’s different people playing on it. I’m just trying to keep the other guys in the band happy, and I thought maybe we could evolve into a band, but…some people were available and some people weren’t. But… ( Sighs) …I dunno, it’s just that getting records out in this day and age is hard work. And I thought, “If I call my band the Philistines, and if we have, like, three or four albums that do alright, then I can do a best-of album and call it The Complete and Utter Philistines.” ( Laughs)īE: You were talking about putting your name out in front, but the copy of On Something that I’ve got is only credited to the Philistines.
It’s somebody who’s got no saving graces whatsoever. And the word “philistine” has a slightly different connotation over here. See, all I’ve ever wanted was to be in a band called the Philistines, but if you’ve been in the Sex Pistols, everybody wants to put your name on it, and to get some sort of a record out at my stage in the game… ( Trails off) But I don’t want to be the main guy in the band. GM: Well, good! And it’s where I got the name of the band: the Philistines. So it just kind of happened, and…it was a drag, because I thought that record could have stood on its own a lot more.īE: I loved the single, “ My Little Philistine.” As a result of that track, I was literally hooked from the moment I put on the record. But when I made that record, I hadn’t even met up with Paul and Steve and John. So when that overlapped, it looked like I was just trying to cash in. And then the Pistols tour sort of came about, and everybody thought it would be a good idea to put it out as the Pistols tour. GM: He did! He said, “What are you up to?” I said, “I’ve got a bunch of songs and I want to do something with them.” And he said, “Well, we’ll put that out.” So I thought, “Oh, great!” That was in ’95, and, really, the record should’ve come out in late ’95 or the beginning of ’96, but then it got held up a bit. How did you end up on that label? Did Alan McGee just approach you one day and pitch the idea? Or that’s what I’m banking on, anyway!īE: That first solo album came out on Creation Records. And, hopefully, the more living you do, the more you’ve got to talk about. But it’s no different now than how it always used to be years ago.
As you go through life, things affect you in different ways, and you pick up on this and you pick up on that, and sometimes you get a song out of it. Whether or not it works quite like that, I don’t know, but that’s normally what I try and do. Once you’ve got more than an album’s worth of songs floating around in your head, unfinished or unreleased or what have you, your psyche becomes unmanageable, you know? And you just have to clear everything out…and, hopefully, by clearing everything out, you make a good record at the same time.
Not with a great deal of success, I must admit… ( Laughs) …but I write songs all the time, and you’ve got to have some kind of outlet. GM: Well, I’ve actually been doing it for awhile, to be honest. That’s our claim to fame: that we got Duran Duran going!" I think we were the bridgehead between punk and what came after it. We saw Duran Duran in the front row when we was in Birmingham, checking us out. "When I was with the Rich Kids, there were loads of bands that came after us. Though you might find it fair to say that Matlock isn’t necessarily the most prolific songwriter – he started releasing albums under his own name in 1994, and he’s only just put out his fourth, Born Running – but he’s still got a hell of a way with a hook. In addition to his work with the Sex Pistols, Matlock also spent time as a member of The Rich Kids (along with Midge Ure and Rusty Egan of Visage) and wrote and played with Iggy Pop, but he’s had a bit of a solo career going as well. In the end, at least the man’s got his Bollocks royalties to keep him warm at night, but for those who aren’t aware of his further contributions to music, now’s the perfect time to start your education. Interviews Home / Music Home / Bullz-Eye HomeĪlthough he wrote the music for 10 out of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, Glen Matlock has been forced to spend a great deal of his career as the answer to the trivia question, “Who played bass for the Sex Pistols prior to Sid Vicious joining to the band?” It’s a bit ridiculous, really…but, then, so is the story that Matlock was kicked out of the band because he liked the Beatles.
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