Anti-Nowhere League

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Anti-Nowhere League
At an appearance in 2007
At an appearance in 2007
General information
origin Tunbridge Wells , Kent , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Genre (s) Punk rock , hardcore punk
founding 1980, 1992
resolution 1987
Website http://www.antinowhereleague.com/
Founding members
Nick "Animal" Kulmer
Chris "Magoo" Exall
Tony "Bones" Shaw
Chris "Baggy Elvy" Elvy
Current occupation
singing
 Nick "Animal" Kulmer
Tom "Tommy H" Hunt
Shady
Sam "Carnage" Carne
former members
Drums
 Djahanshah "PJ" Aghssa
bass
 Clive "Winston" Blake
guitar
 Mark "Gilly" Graham
bass
 Michael Bettel
Drums
 Jonathan "JB" Birch
guitar
 Beef
bass
 Jon Jon ("JJ Kaos")
bass
 Danny
guitar
 Now
guitar
 Johnny Skullknuckles
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
We Are ... The League
  UK 24 05/22/1982 (11 weeks)
Live in Yugoslavia
  UK 88 05/11/1983 (1 week)
Singles
Streets of London
  UK 48 01/23/1982 (5 weeks)
I Hate ... People
  UK 46 03/20/1982 (3 weeks)
Woman
  UK 72 07/03/1982 (2 weeks)
On the wasteland
  UK 89 01/26/1985 (1 week)

The Anti-Nowhere League (ANL) is a British punk band that was formed in Tunbridge Wells ( Kent ) in 1980 . After a break between 1987 and 1992, the group is active again today.

Band history

First phase (1979–1987)

The first line-up were the singer Nick Kulmer ("Animal"), the guitarist Chris Exall ("Magoo"), Tony Shaw ("Bones") on drums and Chris Elvy ("Baggy Elvy") on bass , who had been there for a short time was later replaced by Clive Blake ("Winston"). Soon Djahanshah Aghssa , better known as PJ or Persian John, became the new drummer. The band then managed to take part in the Apocalypse Tour , which also featured The Exploited , Chron Gen and Anti-Pasti . They also performed with discharge . This led to the signing of a record deal with WXYZ Records, the record label of John Curd .

This was followed by a short tour of northern England, where they played again as the opening act for The Damned . In November 1981, the band released their first single, a cover version of Ralph McTell's Streets of London , which recorded an initial success for the group at number 48 in the UK charts. A video was shot for this, which showed the band in the hard rock and rocker outfit they still have today: leather jackets and necklaces. However, it was the B-side that caused controversy. So What , later made popular by the cover version of Metallica , used an obscene language. The single was therefore temporarily confiscated by the Metropolitan Police . This brought the band increased attention.

In 1982 another single called I Hate People was released , which also made it to the charts. The debut album We Are ... The League was released in May 1982 and reached number 24 in the UK charts. The band then toured the UK with Chron Gen, The Defects and Chelsea and then toured the United States with the UK Subs . On another tour through Yugoslavia , the live album Live in Yugoslavia was recorded, with which they reached number 88 in the British charts. Then came with Mark Gilham ("Gilly") a second guitarist in the band. In 1984 PJ left the band. Initially replaced by Michael Bettell, Jonathan Birch ("JB") joined the band in 1986.

In 1987 her second studio album The Perfect Crime was released on the heavy metal label GWR. Due to their previous experiences with the record companies, which they said they would have withdrawn, the band was ready to make many compromises, so that the album turned out to be much more pop-oriented. So the album ultimately flopped. The band broke up at the end of the year, but gave a farewell concert in their hometown in 1989 and released their last single, Fuck Around the Clock . Kulmen and Exall subsequently opened a nightclub together.

Second phase: Reunion (since 1995)

In 1991 Metallica's single Sad but True was released , which contained a cover version of the song So What as the B-side . In 1992 Nick Kulmer was allowed to sing the song with the band at the sold out Wembley Stadium . The song is now one of the standards in Metallica's set lists and made the band popular outside of the punk scene. Stimulated by the unexpected success of the Metallica cover version, a reunion took place in which, in addition to Kulmer, Chris “Magoo” Exall also took part. The rest of the line-up was new. The band began touring again around 1992. First of all, the Extended Play Pig Iron was created , which was released on the German label Impact Records . In 1997 the German independent label also released the tribute album So What! - A tribute to the Anti-Nowhere League , on which metal bands like Sodom and Benediction , but also punk bands like Daily Terror , Toxoplasma and Die Kassierer covered the group. As a bonus, the album included the brand new song Burn 'em All .

In 1998 the comeback album Scum followed on the German label Knock Out Records . A quasi-continuation of the successful live album from 1983 was released there: The band is going on tour in Yugoslavia again and recording Return to Yugoslavia there. Afterwards the line-up became very unstable, Nick Kulmer remained the only constant in the band for the next few years. This was followed by the studio albums Out of Control (2000), Kings & Queens (2005), The Road to Rampton (2007), We Are… The League… Uncut (2014) and The Cage (2016).

Music genre

As a band from the second generation of punk, Anti-Nowhere League attached great importance to shock moments at the beginning of their career. Although their Ralph McTell cover was very close to the original and got by without profanity, they shocked with the B-side of the single, which had very obscene language. Her debut album was created in this spirit. The second album The Perfect Crime, on the other hand, is more commercially oriented and should therefore have a large part in the decline of the band. The later albums are again in the spirit of the debut and differ little from each other.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1982: We Are… The League (WXYZ Records)
  • 1987: The Perfect Crime (GWR Records)
  • 1997: Scum ( Knock Out Records )
  • 2000: Out of Control (Receiver Records)
  • 2005: Kings & Queens ( Captain Oi! )
  • 2007: The Road to Rampton (Nowhere Records)
  • 2014: We Are… The League… Uncut (Cleopatra Records)
  • 2016: The Cage (Cleopatra Records)

Live albums

  • 1983: Live In Yugoslavia (ID Records)
  • 1989: Live and Loud (Link Records)
  • 1994: Live Animals (Step-1 Music)
  • 1996: The Horse Is Dead: Live! SO WHAT? (Receiver Records Limited)
  • 1998: Return to Yugoslavia (Knock Out Records)
  • 2007: Secret Radio Recordings (Dream Catcher)

Compilations

  • 1985: Long Live the League (Dojo Limited)
  • 1991: Best of the Anti-Nowhere League (Streetlink)
  • 1995: Complete Singles Collection (Anagram Records)
  • 1999: Anthology (Eagle Records)
  • 2000: So What (Harry May Record Company)
  • 2001: Punk Singles & Rarities 1981–1984 (Captain Oi!)
  • 2001: Animal! The Very Best Of The Anti-Nowhere League 1981-1998 (Anagram Records)
  • 2002: I Hate People… Long Live the League (Harry May Record Company)
  • 2006: So What? (Early Demos & Live Abuse) (2CD, Castle Music)
  • 2006: Pig Iron (The Album) (Nowhere Records)
  • 2008: The Punk Rock Anthology (2CD, Anagram Records)
  • 2016: Long Live the League (2CD, Westworld Recordings)

Singles and EPs

  • 1981: Streets of London (WXYZ Records)
  • 1982: For You (WXYZ Records)
  • 1982: I Hate People (WXYZ Records)
  • 1982: Woman (WXYZ Records)
  • 1984: Out on the Wasteland (ABC)
  • 1987: Crime (GWR Records)
  • 1989: Fuck Around the Clock (Link Records)
  • 1996: Pig Iron (Impact Records)
  • 2011: This Is War (7``, Papagájův Hlasatel Records)
  • 2014: Anti-Nowhere League / The Damn Garrison (Split-7``, Rebel Sound)

Video albums

  • 2008: Hell for Leather (Dream Catcher)

Tribute albums

  • 1997: So What! - A tribute to the Anti-Nowhere League (Impact Records)

literature

  • Ian Glasper: Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984 . PM Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-60486-748-0 , pp. 348-354 .
  • Glenn Law: Anti-Nowhere League . In: Peter Buckley (Ed.): The Rough Guide to Rock . Rough Guides, 2003, ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0 , pp. 34 .

Web links

Commons : Anti-Nowhere League  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK . Retrieved May 21, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Artist Biography by Mark Deming at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 21, 2017.
  3. ^ Glenn Law: Anti-Nowhere League . In: Peter Buckley (Ed.): The Rough Guide to Rock . Rough Guides, 2003, ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0 , pp. 34 .
  4. ↑ a b Nejc Jakopin: Interview with ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE . In: Ox-Fanzine . 23 (II 1996) - ( ox-fanzine.de ).
  5. ↑ Various - So What?! A Tribute To Anti-Nowhere League on Discogs . Retrieved May 21, 2017
  6. ↑ King & Queens at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 21, 2017.