The International Swingers - Fly By Night

GLEN MATLOCK, CLEM BURKE, JAMES STEVENSON & GARY TWINN

Who haven’t these guys played with ?

Glen, founding member of the Sex Pistols, wrote ‘Pretty Vacant’ and ‘God Save The Queen’ the two songs that turned the music industry upside down and inside out. Formed The Rich Kids with Midge Ure, Steve New and Rusty Egan, played bass on Iggy Pop’s Soldier album and The Damned’s Not of This World album and is now Playing with Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Mick Huchnall in The Faces.

Clem, founding member of Blondie and still with the band today but has found plenty of time to play or recorded with the absolute legends of the music industry. Imagine having Pete Townsend, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, Nancy Sinatra on your CV and a few others like ‘The Romantics’,’The Tourist’ Eurythmics’, ‘The Fleshtones’, ‘The GO-Go’s’, Hugh Cornwell Band and is known as Elvis Ramones when he plays with ‘The Ramones

James is the teenage wonder kid from London who joined his first punk band as a teenager in 1977. Chelsea was the band and their punk legacy was the song ‘Right To Work’. After Chelsea James went on to play with a host of UK artists including Kym Wilde, Generation X, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Cult and The Alarm. When not playing in bands James spends time writing music for TV including the UK hit show Hollywood Men, writes for the UK Guitar and Bass magazine and is also a vintage guitar expert and collector, last count was around 30 vintage guitars.

Gary’s first recording sessions was a song called ‘I Like it Both Ways’ which resulted with his Australian band Supernaut having a top 5 single and Album the song was banned by many radio stations across Australia because of the songs contents and title. Gary moved to London in 1980 and formed bands like HoneyDrippers, Twenty Flight Rockers, Speedtwinn and Dead Horse and played with the likes of Rat Scabies, Glen Matlock, Mark Laff and Derwood Andrews.

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