December 2nd 2011  7.30pm   THE EAST QUAY

Two classic punk bands on one bill.

An infamous group of hardcore punk rock anarchists, Anti-Nowhere League, just back from their UK tour with Motorhead, have been living the punk lifestyle for decades. Lead singer Animal formed the band in 1980, and promptly got arrested at their very first gig. The history of the League is littered with brushes with the law, rock and roll misbehaviour and very loud music.

The release of their debut album, “We Are…The League”, saw all copies temporarily seized by the Obscene Publications Squad and they were banned from TV and Radio, including being thrown out of the Top Of The Pops studio when Animal brandished an axe. Their first single was a cover version of Ralph McTell’s ‘Streets of London’, featuring some interesting new lyrics, with the B side that was to become the group’s anthem, & now adopted by Metallica as part of their live set, ‘So What’.

With a line up now including the one and only Rat Scabies on drums, The Members are one of punk’s most underrated bands. They were the new wave’s great satirists and a part of a British pop tradition which dated back to Ray Davies of The Kinks, and stretches forward to Mike Skinner of The Streets. Best known for what was to become a punk classic, “Sound of the Suburbs”, they are one of the first of the era’s bands to embrace reggae and “few did so with as much love and style as the The Members” The Observer.

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Official band websites:

www.antinowhereleague.com

www.themembers.co.uk

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