Unfortunately, the band, like a bad smell, just followed me a bit – I still got into a bit of trouble in the band. 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 just Nick in my book, and you’ll read in there that I really didn’t like ‘Animal’, right from the first. 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.

Because, obviously, we came in when punk music came back in with its second wave – should we say – of 1980, with The Exploited and GBH and all this, the aggressive, grungy side of punk. I still love all of the guys I used to ride with – most of them are dead now, I think most of them are – but it was a fact, for me personally, I needed to sort myself out. refused to sanction the release of these two songs because of fear of litigation, so Nick (Animal) eventually relented and let the album be released with the two disputed songs omitted.Nick: We do play on the skinhead festivals, but I think they are not as rowdy, should we say, as the other ones.

I don’t think it achieves anything, it’s just a voice for kids growing up… and an old bloke who moans. Nick: Because we got signed to Cleopatra Records in California, they want to put the book out [in the US], but my manager is still waiting until the legal teams are finished pawing over it, I think, and then we’re going to approach people. The headliners Cockney Rejects need no introduction to any punk fan, as they are 40-year veterans of the scene. 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? Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).The only difficult side of it is, there’s so many lyrics – and my brain isn’t as big as it used to be. When I came back from Canada – I lived in the Rocky Mountains [there] for a bit and actually I was living a bit hippyish, but [when I got back] I actually found me a lot more [things to do] in life than getting into too much trouble.

However, there was a belated 'farewell' show at the Victoria Hall in Tunbridge Wells, in 1989, which was recorded and can be heard on their live album, Live Animals. The band first played at the 1980 Chaos Show at St Mark's Hall, Royal Tunbridge Wells on 31 March 1980.saw the band record and release a collection of classic reggae covers under the title League Style, Loosen Up Vol I. 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. Expect a set full of hard-hitting, heart-on-the-sleeve anthems like Looking For Glory, No Regrets and One More Drink from the four-piece, who include Cock Sparrer’s Daryl Smith on guitar. And don’t forget So What, the obscenity-laden B-side which saw their single Streets Of London banned, and was covered by Metallica!