Glen Matlock’s Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photo File is published by Foruli Codex on 10 March, priced £20. The erstwhile Sex Pistol, Rich Kid, Philistine, and more has never been unsteady, that’s for sure. But if you put a three-legged one there, it stays there. Rock musician quote of the year: If you put a four-legged table on rough ground, it’s wobbly. They are important to the narrative, so I gave them some placement,’ says Vella. FROM THE PISTOLS TO PALESTINE: Glen Matlock. ‘I just loved the fact that here we had a world famous punk band touring the USA, South America, Japan… and like any tourist Matlock kept pamphlets and cigarette packets, even roasted chestnut bags. Vella has composed montages of ephemera collected by the magpie-like Matlock and photographed them as still life.
The book is a photographic account of the tour through Matlock’s eyes, something Vella has tried to distill in the ‘scrap book cum visual memoir’. In many cases they were overlayed, creating a mechanical moiré, which in many cases became the background to the pages.’ Glen Matlock’s Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photo File The most candid account of the Sex Pistols you will ever read, this new updated edition marks the 30th anniversary of the bands first recordings.
They were then re-photographed and further physically distressed. ‘The prints were then distressed using wet and dry paper, to take away the strength of lines in places. Glen Matlock, John Lydon and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols onstage in Las Vegas in 2008. Glen Matlock I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol (Paperback) I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol (Paperback) Glen Matlock I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol (Hardback) I Was A. I hand-drew various shapes and lines which I printed on to porcelain coated paper. Vella says, ‘My creative process is very hands-on, I don’t just sit at a computer creating digital art.