Sex Pistols lost their bottle in Dundee
Punk legend Glen Matlock admitted he bottled his first visit to Scotland – after the Sex Pistols were showered in a hail of glass during a gig.
The infamous concert at Dundee Technical College in 1976 saw the bassist – with bandmates Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones and Paul Cook – run for cover.
Glen, who is currently on tour and plays Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree tonight, said: “I played Scotland with the Sex Pistols in 1976 and we played at a teacher training college in Dundee.
“We got bottled off. There weren’t many people there but they must have drunk a lot cause there were lots of bottles.
“We had to go off stage. The door was just behind the drum riser and it was going ‘bang, bang, bang’ from the sound of the bottles for 15 minutes.
“Eventually they ran out of ammo so we went to the bar to get a drink.
“These two blokes there said to us, ‘ Why didn’t you come out and play more songs?’ and we said, ‘ You were throwing bottles at us!’
“They replied, ‘But we read you liked that’.”
Glen, who will soon been touring Australia and New Zealand, has already played Paisley and Edinburgh last week, and says he’s always ready to rock.
He said: “I just need Silk Cut and some coffee. It keeps me on my toes.
“Then I strap on my guitar and off I go.”