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Anti-Nowhere League



Genres: Pop / Rock, Punk / New Wave
Descriptive "tags": punk Powered by AudioScrobbler
Decades Active: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Leading lights in the early 80s UK punk scene, along with contemporaries G.B.H. and the Exploited, this quartet from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, flaunted their talents in biker leather, chains, and hardcore obscenity. Led by Animal (Nick Karmer; vocals) and Magoo (guitar), their catalogue of sexual outrage veered from the satirical to the genuinely offensive, with a string of four-letter words, rabid misogyny and the glorification of bestiality. Their most memorable moment was a thrashy rerun of Ralph McTell's "Streets Of London", which replaced the song's folksy sentiments with the barbed, snarling rhetoric of the gutter. Thousands of copies of the single were seized and destroyed by the police as the b-side, "So What", was deemed obscene. This action, however, could not prevent the band reaching number 1 in the UK Independent singles charts, a feat accomplished a further three times in 1982 with "I Hate People", "Woman" and "For You". As their punkish appeal...

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