Love Songs – Freedom, 26 June 2004

Crass, Love Songs (Hebden Bridge: Pomona, 2004). Pay no more than £9.99. http://www.pomonauk.com.
“In attempts to moderate us, they ask why we don’t write love songs.
What is it that we sing then?
Our love of life is total, everything we do is an expression of that.
Everything that we write is a love song.”
Crass, Yes Sir, I Will.
In [...]

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A Compelling Call to Action – Freedom, 29 June 2002

Six original members of the anarchist punk band Crass, in collaboration with other artists, presented an evening of musical, spoken-word and video performance at the National Film Theatre (NFT) on Saturday 15th June — in celebration of the culture and politics of anarcho-punk.
For the uninitiated, the event was a visceral demonstration of the passion with [...]

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The other history of punk – Freedom, 27 April 2007

George Berger. 2006. The Story of Crass, (London: Omnibus Press) ISBN 1-84609-402-X. £14.95. Ian Glasper. 2006. The Day The Country Died: A History of Anarcho-Punk 1980-1984, (London: Cherry Red) ISBN 1-901447-7-07. £14.99.
Since the anarchist punk band Crass brought to an end the group’s cultural-political assault on the Thatcherite state in the summer of 1984, the [...]

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Freedom review published 27 April 2007 edition

The review of The Day the Country Died; and The Story of Crass; has now been published in the 27 April 2007 edition of the British anarchist journal Freedom.

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Anarcho-punk book review submitted to Freedom

I’ve just sent in a joint review of George Berger’s The Story of Crass and Ian Glasper’s The Day the Country Died to the anarchist paper Freedom that I’ve been working on over the past few weeks. It’s a generally very positive appraisal of both works, which tries to identify the strength of both books; [...]

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