| “I
WENT for a drink with them down in
Tunbridge where they live. We were in
this pub and they just grabbed the barman
by the neck, pulled him over the bar and
said 'You're not closing at eleven
o'clock at you? We might want a few more
drinks'. He kept the place open until one
o'clock.” – Captain Sensible of
the Damned reminiscing about a night out
with the Anti-Nowhere League. “I HATE
people 'cos people hate me.”
– A line from an Anti-Nowhere League
song.
Chris:
“We had nothing else to do so we
started the band up about a year and a
half ago.”
Winston:
“We were in Tunbridge Wells and
pissed off with the area, there was
nothing happening, we were just bored and
it seemed like a laugh. We did a few
local gigs then a mini tour up North with
the Damned and took it from there.”
Chris:
“We saw them at the Bridgehouse and
bribed them to take us along, it just
escalated from there.”
Winston:
“NEMS (the agency) carne and saw us
at Wakefield and chucked us in at the
Lyceum, the first Apocalypse thing. We're
not used to doing interviews, we don't
know what to talk about or how to act
cool and say the right things really.
You'll probably write it up like all the
others saying how you got to the gig on
the train and had a pork pie on the
way.”
Chris:
“Or ‘he growled menacingly over
a cat, the cat winked at me and I left
the room’, ha ha ha, or 'we
exchanged snorts' he he he. You ask
questions and we'll answer.”
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