Why CRASS Disbanded by STEVE IGNORANT

[@zacmitty7851]

as an 18 year old in 1983 I wrote to crass to ask them if I could come and live with them and I received a really nice letter back from Eve. I went to live in a squat in kentish town, turned vegan, pink mohawk etc things change in life but at 50 I bought their records again (having sold them for food in around 1988) and now at 58 they seem as relevant as ever. steve is right, I think, when he says that thy would have sound different of they were musicians. like john lydon, he's one of the few people I seem never to be able to disagree with. good on him.

[@bell6dandy564]

1997 I discovered Crass, still very much love thier music! I was 17 then. Recently my oldest daughter started listening to them, and it makes me so happy!

[@plejady]

What about the exploited?

[@jeffsims8270]

I believe I too discovered them in 96/97 as I was 15/16 (born in 81). I'm still very much a fan and continue to listen to em fairly regularly.😎✌️❤️☮️

[@Mr75044]

I've met quite a few from that era that told me crass changed their lives. I'm from brum met a gezza In Weston. From Leeds Told me Big A little a. Changed him forever. That was 2019....we both was still tuned in .. Fuck the shitstem .

[@garythompson4041]

Amazing geezer, down to earth, no bullshit.

[@michaelpayne5640]

I was at that last gig in Wales and remember after the gig Eve was talking informally with a bunch of people just sitting about. I didn’t hear the full conversation but they were talking about the idea of Crass breaking up. So I’m sure they, or at least she, was already thinking about it.

[@tribalenergydj8245]

I met up with crass and conflict way back when and we squatted the zig zag club... Great gigs, great band and genuine people... Obvs that version of anarchy was pure idealism... They all ended up owning property and relying on the money system like everyone else... But it was heart felt rebellion when we were kids... Steve seems like a decent guy as an adult

[@garyrigby21]

Saw Crass in Liverpool a few times in the early 80's

[@gutterdocmd]

So lucky! I have so many of their eps and lps. Cheers from Yankee land!

[@deanpd3402]

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

[@Somerset-In-The-Blood]

Looking forward to hearing Steve in Bristol next Thursday 😀

[@JohnSmith-ji6lu]

They were the sound track of my teenage years.

[@slaxxxer]

John Smith same here john x

[@lisabroome8725]

Likewise mate

[@davidgrahamscott]

Me too, lads! Hardcore was I.

[@punk80sfrance]

they are really little known in france, don't think they played here, buying the records was hard in the late 80s/90s. Internet changed everything, but i'm always a bit disappointed not to have seen them live (i discovered them in 87/88 when Carlton gave me a tape of STATIONS"

[@jonwykes348]

feeding the 5000 rewired my brain back in 80! i was 15

[@kevm7751]

Crass are as relevant, if not moreso, today, as they were in the late 70s early 80s. People need to wake up and see what's happening all around them.

[@leebritnell2405]

Agree.People are dumbed-down and seem resigned to perpetual Tory 'government '.

[@Colin-ro6lh]

Songs are but Steve sold out & is cashing in on Crass nowadays with his Crass covers band playing festivals etc & the other day they played a festival in usa to 40,000 people seriously

[@garylovell6017]

@@Colin-ro6lh It's really disgusting and ruining the Crass legacy. All that work they did to bring music out so cheaply for everyone and all the other bands they helped and he just wants to cash in on it. Makes it look as though it was all hypocritical. Shameful and sad.

[@IloveJillValentine1974]

I love Jill Valentine so much, she’s my muse and Couldn’t live without her.

[@punksnotdead4766]

So many great songs

[@skriptico]

Grande Steve!

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

Crass are great musically but they totally sold out to political correctness and always were too politically active to be liked by all punks. Steve sold out to being a p.c. punk. He's a poser. Real punks dont care about anything but having fun. This nonsense about PUNK being a real activist and protest movement needs to fucking end. It's for fun times and a bit of acting, satire, spoof, and comic relief. Keep the political correctness out of it. Enough is enough. All it's done is seriously ruin our livelihoods as Anarchists by creating all these fucked up, depressing, causes.

[@J0ck63]

Lol. Who told ya that. Yer yalkin shite man

[@paulm433]

Are you for real? Way to completely miss the point.