Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Crass: There Is No Authority But Yourself

Great post from DangerousMinds
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For your viewing pleasure…here’s an exciting find that has yet to materialize on YouTube: Crass: There Is No Authority But Yourself.  Director Alexander Oey‘s hour-long look at the relentlessly uncompromising anarchist punk band came out in ‘06, and features some great, talking head footage of Crass members Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher.

While The Feeding of the 5000 came out way back in ‘78, Rimbaud and Vaucher still remain true to the “Crass ideal.”  They continue to practice a sustainable, anti-corporate lifestyle at Dial House, a “safe haven for those individuals of principle who still live by the old punk slogan ‘Do it yourself.’

I remember a time when the procuring of a new Crass single was a matter of great urgency.  Watch below to find out why.


 

Previously on Dangerous Minds: The Unexpected Crass-Beatles Nexus Point

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for posting that, it was wonderful. Very informative and enlightening about a band that was really, like most British punk bands of that era, off the radar here in the Midwest.

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