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BECAUSE "ANIMAL" OF ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE WAS "MATEY'S" WITH LEMMY -- READ ON TO FIND OUT MORE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Nick "Animal" Culmer of UK punk rock band ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE performing live in the early '80s, plus Lemmy Kilmister of MOTÖRHEAD performing live at Reading Rock Festival 1982 (with Dee Snyder of TWISTED SISTER in the background).

100% ROCK: "In the very early days, the punk and the metal crowds were quite hostile, weren’t they? They rarely mingled together. But you guys managed to straddle both camps really well. Perhaps only like Lemmy before you could do."

NICK "ANIMAL" CULMER: "It’s funny, I was matey's with Lemmy – we used to hang out a lot in London, in my early days. 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. He used to have a boat on the Thames, and we used to spend many happy evenings doing illegal things. We used to go out on the town, we go out and see THE DAMNED play. It’s all in the book…

Lemmy and I fell out because we – it’s in the book – but in the mid-‘80s, when punk music got sort of stale and Lemmy was still doing MOTÖRHEAD, we went out, and he looked at me and said, "what the fuck’s happened to the ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE, you’ve all gone fucking pansies or something." Which was entirely right – too many drugs and too much confusion going on, and yeah, he was right. And in my book it says that I should’ve took his advice, that he was right, I just fell out with him [over it]. I was a bit of an arsehole. Obviously he was on the same sort of movement we were in those days, in 1980. He was just flying the flag of… I always thought that MOTÖRHEAD were sort of like the punk side of metal, and that ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE were the metal side of punk."

100% ROCK: "Yeah, definitely."

NICK: "We had some little thing between us, which was very similar but very different. I mean Lemmy never rode a motorcycle. We used to laugh at him. He never rode. We all used to ride and stuff like that. He had a good sense of humour, he was a good guy. Then we sort of parted ways, Lemmy and I, it was only later on – a few years ago – when we toured with MOTÖRHEAD, we actually sat down and sort of reminisced about the old days going up to London, you know, going playing with the band. We had a little bit of a heart to heart. It was quite good really, because we did fall out. When you get older, you think, "how fucking stupid was that?" We were silly. Unfortunately, he’s not with us anymore. Sad day, sad day."