We Don't Serve Your Kind 'Ere: The real autobiography of Nick Animal Culmer

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I always say that bands are allowed to make one mistake, and that was our mistake – of losing track of where we were going.

Certainly when you get later on in life, you think, ‘fuck me, that was what it was all about,’ – I think it’s a good vehicle for that. What started out as Durham Punk Festival in 2005 moved to Newcastle in 2013, and after a year at the O2 Academy, it has now found a home from home at Northumbria University.

Nick: It’s funny because we’re doing Punk Rock Bowling this year, and they put us in this smaller venue, than we’ve done it before in Vegas, and as soon as they put it out it sold out. Thankfully, Animal (real name Nick Culmer) has recovered enough to be able to perform, and played his comeback gig last weekend. 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.

Once you get in a band and start playing the local venues, [then] it just keeps them off the streets. Nick: I’ve just finished my book – it’s being dredged through by the legal team at the moment – they’re obviously scared in this day and age to put anything out which is going to be… you know… upsetting people. I'M JUST A REGULAR GAL; SCOT HITCHED TO TRUMP TREASURER TRIES TO REBOOT IMAGE Obnoxious actress who married a millionaire US politician and caused.For me personally, punk music was a vehicle to get out of the road I was going – back to prison, if you know what I mean. This year’s second headliners are clockwork punks The Adicts, from Ipswich, who haven’t played the all-dayer in quite a few years. It’s the basic [thing] of how we’re born into a cage we’re made into, and we live in it until we die, sort of thing.

Hopefully they’ll bring their whole show – more theatre than punk rock – as they wheel out classics like Joker In The Pack, Smart Alex and Viva La Revolution. They’re nothing like DBD, and now he’s concentrating his efforts on this band, who have an EP out on STP Records. I knew I was looking for something, and then obviously when I first came back from Canada, and went to the clubhouse and they were playing all the punk rock music on the jukebox in the clubhouse – it did affect me. A. in a small club, The Roxy I think it was – that fucking night was just insane, just from start to finish, but that’s another story. ROCK: Well, I tell you what, I’ll drop a few questions that you’ll probably cover in your book and I’ll hope to read about them shortly.At the 2012 Download Festival, the band appeared on the Pepsi Max stage hours before Metallica filled the main stage as headliners. Me, in my bike days, listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd, going along to see Genesis and that, it never made me think, ‘cor, fuck me, I want to be in a band.