The current once-only tour grew out of two London performances of Penis Envy (1981), its third album, focused on feminist issues and was sung by Eve Libertine (Bronwyn Lloyd Jones) and Joy De Vivre. With the Slits, Crass was one of the few early punk bands in which women played a major role: Jeremy Ratter) also produced tape collages and Gee Vaucher's political street stencils - decades before Banksy - and engaged in other direct-action tactics. The Feeding of the 5,000), blasted Jesus for allowing the Holocaust, alluded to the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen and contained such nuggets as: "The cross is the mast of our oppression."Ĭrass (whose other leading member was performance artist Penny Rimbaud, a.k.a. "Punk is dead," the band declared on that disc, referring to the decay of the genre into "another cheap product," but punk has continued, most vigorously in the left-leaning, anti-war, anarchistic mode that Crass pioneered.ĭespite its name, Crass promoted a literate, focused and even poetic assault on authority.Īsylum, the first song on that debut disc (which bore the biblical title Crass was never as famous as the Clash or the Sex Pistols, but its music has shown staying power that few might have guessed when the band issued its first record in 1978.
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