Glen Matlock & The Philistines

Up early. Driver arriving at 8am to take me to Heathrow. I am off to Istanbul with Glen Matlock and the Philistines for a few days. Met The Philistines at Terminal 2, Heathrow, Ray McVay was late... Anyway, made it onto the plane. As we were boarding, Glen Matlock and myself were upgraded..leaving the rest of the boys in their normal seats. Sorry lads and a Big Thankyou to Malcolm. Arrived in Istanbul, fist things first, we had to buy a Visa before passport control. Then off we went through passport control, well all of us except Ray. He was quizzed and questioned by a rather interesting and susspicious Passport Official. Mind you, Ray's passport photo does look Charles Manson. Finaly he was passed through.. We got our bags and were met by representatives of the promotors. We were then taken to our hotel. Slung our bags in our rooms and then headed off to meet up with more people from the promoters who took us out for dinner near the fish marklet in old Istanbul. Really nice people and very entertaining. Glen was spotted by loads of people wherever we went. We had a photgrapher from one of the national papers turn up at our table. He took a shot of us all and told us it should be in Thursdays edition. We then left the restaraunt late and walked round to a bar to watch a live band. As soon as the band came off stage, on went 'God Save The Queen' by the Sex Pistols and written by Glen. Watching one member of our touring party, Simon "Its in the bag & "its a done deal" (he knows what I mean), pogoing was entertainment enough, but, it was also his birthday and he was by now well pissed. So, all in all quite funny. Glen and I had had enough and both were very tired, so, we decided to head off ahead and walk back to the hotel. As we did, nearly all of the team came with us.