{"id":47868,"date":"2019-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/anti-nowhere-league-we-are-the-league\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:10:54","slug":"anti-nowhere-league-we-are-the-league","status":"publish","type":"feature","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/anti-nowhere-league-we-are-the-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Nowhere League: We Are the League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/antinowhereleague_wearedvd_250.jpg\" title=\"antinowhereleague_wearedvd_250\" alt=\"antinowhereleague_wearedvd_250\" \/>If you are unfamiliar with the Anti-Nowhere League, where the hell have you been hiding? Only one of the most controversial punk bands of the second wave, they are best known for the track \u201cSo What,\u201d which people found so horrible and shocking, they tried to have it banned. Metallica covered it in the \u201890s and made it a classic; they even performed it live on some MTV European awards show in 1998 and it was great. This film covers the band members\u2019 less than upright childhoods before convening together because they found something in punk rock that they were unable to find elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Interviewing all four original members is a great way to get the full story. By not relying on too many other talking heads other than members of the Damned and their manager, you\u2019re able to get the full uncluttered story of a band with many ups and downs. Though they didn\u2019t release as much material as some of their counterparts, they still continue to play shows featuring singer Animal and younger guys backing him up. Without a doubt, the most appealing aspect of the film, besides the censorship debacle surrounding \u201cSo What,\u201d is the recording of the band\u2019s second album <i>The Perfect Crime<\/i> in 1987. By this point, punk was pass\u00e9 and the band was trying to sell some records. So they made a New Wave punk disc and had matching hair and outfits. This was definitely an embarrassing time in the band\u2019s career, and it\u2019s all captured on video. <\/p>\n<p>    Overall, this is a better than average documentary look at one of the more underrated British punk bands. As a bonus, it comes with a previously unreleased live show from 1982 newly remastered, so that\u2019s definitely a plus. More than anything, watching this film makes you want to dig deeper into the band\u2019s catalogue and discover just what it is that made them so interesting in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are unfamiliar with the Anti-Nowhere League, where the hell have you been hiding? Only one of the most controversial punk bands of the second wave, they are best known for the track \u201cSo What,\u201d which people found so horrible and shocking, they tried to have it banned. Metallica covered it in the \u201890s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":48868,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"feature_type":[11243],"class_list":["post-47868","feature","type-feature","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","feature_type-film-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature\/47868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/feature"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature\/47868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47868"},{"taxonomy":"feature_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature_type?post=47868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}