At the 2012 Download Festival, the band appeared on the Pepsi Max stage hours before Metallica filled the main stage as headliners. The headliners Cockney Rejects need no introduction to any punk fan, as they are 40-year veterans of the scene. Imagine this: you secure an interview with your favourite punk singer of all time, prepare some awesome questions that span the near-forty year history of the band, and within minutes you realise he has just written a book about his life and is – quite fairly – reluctant to spill all the beans!

I read Viva La Rock Magazine recently, and I saw your name splattered all over these gig festival line-ups celebrating the 40th anniversary and everything. It’s got a very simple ending to it, but really I think it’s that punk rock music stopped me from a life of crime, if you know what I mean? They released an album and three well-received EPs in their early 80s heyday, before splitting in 1985, but reformed a couple of years ago and recently released a new 10in EP. Nick: I always think looking back at it now, that underneath… see, when we first wrote the songs and sat down, we always used a live guitar.MLA style: "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. The same year, the Anti-Nowhere League undertook a twenty nine date UK tour, and PJ left the band after the Glasgow gig in October 2006. The album included the two songs omitted from the Kings and Queens album, as well as "Landlord", taken from the Out Of Control album.

They’ve just taken it and polished it into a typical American – ‘awesome, awesome, man,’ [adopts cheesy American accent] thing. He was rushed to hospital, where he underwent surgery twice to remove the glass from his face and neck.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. ROCK: I was lucky enough to see you perform So What, with Metallica, at Wembley in ’92, when you came on and did the encore there – that was cool. He was just flying the flag of… I always thought that Motorhead were sort of like the punk side of metal, and that Anti-Nowhere League were the metal side of punk. Then we sort of parted ways, Lemmy and I, it was only later on – a few years ago – when we toured with Motorhead, we actually sat down and sort of reminisced about the old days going up to London, you know, going playing with the band.