It is a stage where you can get on and do your stuff, and if they come along to The Anti-Nowhere League and go, ‘I can fucking do that better than you,’ then that’s what it’s all about. The intention [with forming the band] was literally to try and smarten me act up a little bit, but unfortunately, it backfired a bit.

For me personally, punk music was a vehicle to get out of the road I was going – back to prison, if you know what I mean.granarchy in the uk; Punk star Animal looks back on his wild times with the Anti-Nowhere League and tells how he dotes on Strictly star's tot. Nick: I’ve just finished my book – it’s being dredged through by the legal team at the moment – they’re obviously scared in this day and age to put anything out which is going to be… you know… upsetting people. refused to sanction the release of these two songs because of fear of litigation, so Nick (Animal) eventually relented and let the album be released with the two disputed songs omitted. ROCK: [laughter] Well I was going to ask what did you do to deserve it – but it just came from that song? I know people will tell me what they think, but I’ll be surprised if anybody doesn’t think this is our finest hour.

Nick: Because we got signed to Cleopatra Records in California, they want to put the book out [in the US], but my manager is still waiting until the legal teams are finished pawing over it, I think, and then we’re going to approach people. But then all of a sudden – wow – there was The Stranglers and The Clash… I thought, ‘wow, that did something for me. After a mini European tour in late spring 2009, they embarked on an American tour in June and July 2009, before appearing at the Punk Rebellion festival in Blackpool. And don’t forget So What, the obscenity-laden B-side which saw their single Streets Of London banned, and was covered by Metallica! I knew I was looking for something, and then obviously when I first came back from Canada, and went to the clubhouse and they were playing all the punk rock music on the jukebox in the clubhouse – it did affect me.He knew a lot of the [Hell’s] Angels and stuff in London, obviously a lot of the gangs I knew, we used to get on really well, Lemmy and I.

Whether I was looking for something to affect me, because as you said earlier about being in the bike gangs and stuff, I just… I was the youngest member of the bike gangs and my club name was Old Nick – being the devil – because I was the young pup of the gang. Nick: It’s funny because we’re doing Punk Rock Bowling this year, and they put us in this smaller venue, than we’ve done it before in Vegas, and as soon as they put it out it sold out. A. in a small club, The Roxy I think it was – that fucking night was just insane, just from start to finish, but that’s another story. This subreddit is temporarily private as part of a joint protest to Reddit's recent API changes, which breaks third-party apps and moderation tools, effectively forcing users to use the official Reddit app. I think there’s a lot of other people probably, possibly like me, who get far more out of the punk music scene in attitude than they actually realise.

Frontman and lead singer Nick Culmer, better known by his stage name Animal, of English punk group Anti-Nowhere League performs live on stage at The 1865 venue in Southampton. He was rushed to hospital, where he underwent surgery twice to remove the glass from his face and neck. I don’t diss the original guts of the song, I just diss the fact that I fucked them up in my own stupidity.

ROCK: You came to Australia, I think it was in 2006 you guys came out to Australia, but you just went down the East Coast? Autobiography written by Animal frontman of the Anti Nowhere League (aka Nick Culmer) in his own words.I think they keep the kids away, but I think they put us on just to… well, you go to festivals now and you’ve gotta have all different types of music going on.