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Crass: The Spirit of '76 is Alive and Well and Living in Ongar (in a Commune)

Profile by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 20 January 1979

"YES THAT'S right, punk is dead/it's just another cheap product for the consumer's head/bubblegum rock on plastic transistors/schoolboy sedition backed by bigtime promoters/CBS promote the ...

Ludus/Poison Girls/Crass: The Factory at the Russell Club, Manchester

Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, 3 February 1979

She's So Modern ...

Crass: The Feeding Of The Five Thousand (Small Wonder, Weeny 2) **

Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 24 March 1979

Obscene oaths do not the revolution make ...

Crass, Poison Girls, The Wall: Acklam Hall, London

Live Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 7 April 1979

A SPARSELY attended benefit for the Anarchist Black Cross Cienfuegos Press; a slow night — both the cause and its supporting groups (safely) out of ...

Crass are crass

Comment by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 2 February 1980

IT SEEMS, at the present at any rate, there's no escaping The Crass Phenomenon. The "alternative charts" (the accurate few at that!) see them emerging ...

Crass, Poison Girls, Annie Anxiety, Flux Of Pink Indians: 100 Club, London

Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 20 June 1981

Tea and Anarchy: Edwin Pouncey sees Crass in action ...

Crass, Poison Girls: 100 Club, London

Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 20 June 1981

JUST CRASS ...

Crass Words: The Aesthetics of Anarchy

Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, December 1981

A Report from the House of Crass ...

Crass: a Militant Tendency?

Interview by Hugh Fielder, Neil Perry, Sounds, 25 October 1986

Two years ago CRASS couldn't decide whether to blow up the country or grow cabbages — fortunately for the Tory Tyrants, they chose the latter. ...

Anarcho-Punk: Veg Wedge

Report by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 23 May 1987

With Crass, Poison Girls and Flux in either retirement or a state of change, and Conflict in trouble, the anarcho-punk movement is in tatters. STEVEN ...

Crass: Re-issues

Review by Martin Aston, Q, October 1990

IF ANY GROUP seem wholly inappropriate for CD repackaging, then Crass are it, being eight admitted non-musicians who used snarl-toothed punk music as a vehicle ...

Crass: Where Are They Now?

Profile by Martin Aston, Q, October 1990

CRASS WERE BRITAIN'S seminal anarcho-punk band, whose communal life and own Crass label epitomised the movement's DIY ethic. Handling everything from mail order, promoting gigs ...

Crass' Penny Rimbaud

Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 28 December 1996

THE SPIN Alternative Record Guide wrote that Crass were "probably the first rock band whose liner notes are not only indispensable, but often better reading ...

G Sus of Crass

Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 28 December 1996

THE SPIN Alternative Record Guide wrote that Crass were "probably the first rock band whose liner notes are not only indispensable, but often better reading ...

Shibboleth: My Revolting Life by Penny Rimbaud aka J.J. Ratter (AK Press £6.95)

Book Review by Nick Hasted, Independent on Sunday, 21 March 1999

Incoherent, angry, incompetent and Crass ...

see also Honey Bane

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