Argy Bargy are a streetpunk band from Watford whose NEC appearance is just one of a handful of gigs they’re playing this year. Whereas, maybe in the Led Zeppelin days, and the Yes days, you wouldn’t have got to put a record out as easily. On 26 October, the band joined Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69 and The Damned for the academy in the UK 2006: 30th Anniversary of Punk gig at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. However, after the 25 October show, Mark joined that year on lead guitar, and 1993–1995 was spent playing gigs in the small venues the band had started out in.

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? Of course everybody is moaning at me saying, ‘fuck me, I’m traveling to see The League,’ but I think in their madness these people do these things, because I think that’s where we’re at our best – when we’re right in the sweaty pit, when we’re right in people’s faces and it’s fucking crazy. Then I think you would see the songs – I think you’d see the songs underneath all the bollocks which is around them. Editorial media includes use as a visual reference to support your article, story, critique or educational text.The band first played at the 1980 Chaos Show at St Mark's Hall, Royal Tunbridge Wells on 31 March 1980. They’ve just taken it and polished it into a typical American – ‘awesome, awesome, man,’ [adopts cheesy American accent] thing.

And don’t forget So What, the obscenity-laden B-side which saw their single Streets Of London banned, and was covered by Metallica! 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. 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 Motorhead, 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. 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.In 2011, the band recorded the "This Is War" single, and accompanying video, which was followed by a tour with the UK Subs supporting Motörhead on a number of UK dates. You rode with bike gangs, skipped the country and lived off the grid in the Canadian mountains, spent a couple years in jail. 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. Once you get in a band and start playing the local venues, [then] it just keeps them off the streets.

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. I always say that bands are allowed to make one mistake, and that was our mistake – of losing track of where we were going.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In 2006, the band set up their own independent record label, Nowhere Records; with Pig Iron - The Album being the first release in August 2006.

I’ll just side-step a little – I did read a couple of years ago in a couple of interviews you mentioned writing a book – you’ve said that’s done now. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The album included the two songs omitted from the Kings and Queens album, as well as "Landlord", taken from the Out Of Control album. After touring Germany and the Netherlands in early May 2010, the band and Johhny Skullknuckles parted company and Tommy H (Tom Hunt) was drafted in on guitar. I know people will tell me what they think, but I’ll be surprised if anybody doesn’t think this is our finest hour.When I came back [from Canada] and started with the band, it did stop me from going back on the dark side, as they say, and getting into too much trouble. And like Lemmy said, ‘your album’s shit,’ and I got a little upset with him and said, ‘well your fucking album’s shit. Their Mums used to bring them along in their Lamborghini’s and Junior would get out of the car and put their little punk wig on and go in there. November 1981 saw the release of their first single, a cover version of Ralph McTell's " Streets of London". 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.