FYI ... Crass fans

[Sir Belchalot]

Ivan (& Trevor & Maggie) at Centro Iberico

Old Assassins of Hope stuff here:

http://nuzzprowlinwolf.blogspot.com/2007/09/two-faces-of-assassins.html

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Hmmm...you may find the discussion regarding this show on the Southern records Crass forum entertaining.

this ain't Crass. It's steve with sundry backing musicians (what they gonna do bout the songs on feeding Eve and Joy sung )

Feeding was a brilliant record and Crass were great live but personally i think id rather fork out the extra £7 and see the Pistols.

that said, i'll probably end up going if I can blag it tho i'll be careful to spray myself with anti-lice spray beforehand as i reckon it'll be full of smellies, stink-bombs and crust-buckets.

Ironic innit? I just checked the tickets website and 2 tickets for both nights comes to the best part of £70 This from a band that pioneered the "Pay no more than....." for singles and albums. I think i'll stick with my memories rather than contributing to their pension fund, tbh.

 

[twistedAM]

anybody else got Jeff Lewis's 12 Crass Songs album??
the accompanying cartoon is great

 

[Griff]

Ivan (& Trevor & Maggie) at Centro Iberico

Old Assassins of Hope stuff here:

http://nuzzprowlinwolf.blogspot.com/2007/09/two-faces-of-assassins.html

Cheers for that, never seen anything on the net about them before.

 

[rollinder]

Ironic innit? I just checked the tickets website and 2 tickets for both nights comes to the best part of £70 This from a band that pioneered the "Pay no more than....." for singles and albums. I think i'll stick with my memories rather than contributing to their pension fund, tbh.

Does Active Distrobution have a point?

http://www.activedistribution.org/images/Feeding%20Egos%20Aka.jpg

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Does Active Distrobution have a point?

http://www.activedistribution.org/images/Feeding%20Egos%20Aka.jpg

You could be right, cos i think that they do.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Don't say they won't do it, cause they already do....

 

[Griff]

I read this, and wonder if I'd recognise chico enrico, dash_two and Sir Belchalot.

Especially when Deafie gets mentioned. Did you know Dan & Tarquin (James) from Wanstead too?

 

[chico enrico]

Ironic innit? I just checked the tickets website and 2 tickets for both nights comes to the best part of £70 This from a band that pioneered the "Pay no more than....." for singles and albums. I think i'll stick with my memories rather than contributing to their pension fund, tbh.

to be fair, apart from steve, all the rest of crass have denounced this event and arent having anything to do with it.

to the best of my knowledge it's mortarhate who are behind it and they were always pretty known for being rip-off merchants.

still, each to their own i say, if folk wanna pay for this glorified anarcho-punk karaoke show let 'em.

 

[dash_two]

The name Dan rings a bill. Do you remember Larry Peterson from Wanstead or thereabouts, Griff? He was funny as fuck.

 

[Griff]

Hmmm! Not too sure about a Larry, but as Mike, Leon, Ivan and Dan all lived in Snaresbrook/Wanstead & me and Deafie lived in Leytonstone, it's possible I could have known of him.

Trying to record their demo at the Allan Gordon rehearsal rooms in Leyton was a funny old day.

 

[kalidarkone]

I thought about going to this for the nostalgia but the I went to see The Subhumans earlier this year and hated the music..so I dont think I will bother...if they were in Bris then maybe....but not worth the trek to London....IMO

 

[Sir Belchalot]

I read this, and wonder if I'd recognise chico enrico, dash_two and Sir Belchalot.

Especially when Deafie gets mentioned. Did you know Dan & Tarquin (James) from Wanstead too?

Can't place Dan's face but remember the name.
Remember Tarquin well, wonder if he still wears a beret & long mac

Old photo of me with my niece & a rather bizarre hairstyle:

Played a gig at someone's house in Leytonstone with my band, The Turdburglars in 1981/2 ish. Might have been with the Assassins as well.

 

[Griff]

Remember Tarquin well, wonder if he still wears a beret & long mac

We were sitting in a pub in Wanstead the evening he got his dick pierced and he decided to get it out to show us.

I remember strumming along with Pete Fender at probably the same house in Leytonstone around 82.

 

[In Bloom]

Weren't Crass the ones who had that speil inside one of their album covers about how they wouldn't support the strikes at Wapping because the workers helped to print the Sun? Or was that some other shit anarcho-punk band?

 

[Griff]

The name Dan rings a bill. Do you remember Larry Peterson from Wanstead or thereabouts, Griff? He was funny as fuck.

Thinking about this tonight, and do you mean Lenny? A right stocky bastard with a jaw like a Raving Bonkers robot, who was like the staggering punk who you'd always see with a bottle of cider around the Green Man roundabout. Lenny 'The Dog'

He was a top bloke and me and him were screaming 'Tube Disasters' down the mike at that gig in Leytonstone.

I was only 15 at the time.

 

[BEARBOT]

"the day the country died"

is a very amusing/insightful doc on the anarcho punk scene, features all sorts of bands from well known like crass and zounds to tiny ones from cumbria..i recently saw a free screening at pogo cafe in hackney..seek this out folks if you cant afford/or dont want to support the steve ignorant thing..

there is a book recently been published on this inspiring movement too, forgot the name..will try jon actives site cos i want to splash out on it

 

[chico enrico]

Can't place Dan's face but remember the name.
Remember Tarquin well, wonder if he still wears a beret & long mac

Old photo of me with my niece & a rather bizarre hairstyle:

Played a gig at someone's house in Leytonstone with my band, The Turdburglars in 1981/2 ish. Might have been with the Assassins as well.

haha...the turdburglars!! remember them well from KYPP. trust you've seen al's KYPP myspace??

 

[chico enrico]

Weren't Crass the ones who had that speil inside one of their album covers about how they wouldn't support the strikes at Wapping because the workers helped to print the Sun? Or was that some other shit anarcho-punk band?

some other shit anarchopunk band. there were a lot of em about.

to give crass their due they were always well in support of the miners/printers.

 

[chico enrico]

The name Dan rings a bill. Do you remember Larry Peterson from Wanstead or thereabouts, Griff? He was funny as fuck.

yea. a total character. ive been trying to track larry down for years. have sent you a pM.

 

[d15083d13nt]

is a very amusing/insightful doc on the anarcho punk scene, features all sorts of bands from well known like crass and zounds to tiny ones from cumbria..i recently saw a free screening at pogo cafe in hackney..seek this out folks if you cant afford/or dont want to support the steve ignorant thing..

there is a book recently been published on this inspiring movement too, forgot the name..will try jon actives site cos i want to splash out on it

Apparently the film 'day the country died' is a disappointment compared to the book of the same name.

 

[BEARBOT]

well i enjoyed the film, havent read the book yet, wish i could get it ina library

 

[Herbsman.]

There were two of them in the Brum library. It looks like someone nicked the one in the lending library - I just checked the catalogue and it say's they've had it out since March.

Thieving fuckers.

The other one's in the reference library...

 

[chico enrico]

personally i was pretty disapppinted in the book.

seemed to concentrate just on the bands and their releases etc rather than the larger 'movement' (anarchy centres, squattiung coops, zines, DIY distros) etc.

plus some errors in the features on a few of the bands i was in which could easily have been avoided simply by sending the contributors a copy of their feature to proof read.

BTW lance of Max R+R, plus another guy in germany and an irish guy are also doing books on the anarcho punk scene which will apparently concentrate more on the wider aspects of the scene so lookin forward to them.

'day the country died' is still a great read tho and essential reading for anyone into all dat stuff

 

[Herbsman.]

lance of Max R+R, plus another guy in germany and an irish guy are also doing books on the anarcho punk scene which will apparently concentrate more on the wider aspects of the scene so lookin forward to them.

sweet - do post details when they're released, won't you?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There were two of them in the Brum library. It looks like someone nicked the one in the lending library - I just checked the catalogue and it say's they've had it out since March.

Might have been renewed a large number of times of course. You could ask.

 

[Herbsman.]

Might have been renewed a large number of times of course. You could ask.

The reason I know they've had it since march is because the catalogue says 'due date: March 2007'. Which means it's well overdue. Also, I reserved it months ago, and the library's policy is 'items in demand will not be renewed'.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

OK. In that case you really ought to chase it up: the library should be able to send a reminder at very least. Or buy a new one.

 

[Herbsman.]

Ok, I'll bring it up next time I'm in and ask them for a request form for a new one...

 

[chico enrico]

and get them to order copies of 'anti-fascist' by Martin Lux and 'camden Parasites' by daniel Lux while you're at it.

(the anti-fascist one has the full account of the battle at Crass's 1979 Conway hall gig that's quoted from in the Crass book)