Glen Matlock is a bass guitarist and songwriter from Paddington, London. He is best known as an original member of the Sex Pistols and as the band’s bass player. Born in 1956, he also performs in several other groups, including Rich Kids, Frank Black & The Stax Pistols, Glen Matlock & the Philistines, Dead Men Walking, Vicious White Kids, Bette Bright and The Illuminations, The Spectres, The Hot Club and Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter.

With the Sex Pistols, Matlock is credited with writing or co-writing some of the group’s best-known songs, including Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant. He remains associated with that band’s early history while also continuing to work under his own name and with his other projects, including The Philistines.

In his own work with Glen Matlock & the Philistines, he presents a louder, harder-edged rock sound. The group is part of his wider career as a performer across punk and related rock projects.