Why is this article coming after the tour?

I hear the sound of wind blowing.

Boring.

All of the previous comments are entirely idiotic.

Long Live CRASS!

The previous comments are moronic.

Long Live CRASS!

No mention is made in this article of Jeffrey Lewis whose cover album "12 crass songs" alerted the younger generations who weren't around to experience punk first hand to what they'd missed (and made the lyrics comprehensible)

I'm sorry I missed this show, and the opportunity to show respect to my elders.

HELLO, THE SHOW IS TOMORROW.

There's a protest show happening outside the "crass" show in SF. Protest is too strong a word, there's a real punk show going on outside the "reunion."

I am oddly pissed off by this whole thing. Crass INTENTIONALLY set a time limit (1980-1984) to prevent this kind of thing. Also, penis envy and yes sir i will are hands down the two most essential Crass records and there's no way they can pull it off without Eve Libertine. It's questionable whether or not they should even try.

I shouldn't care because, well I don't care. It just rubs me the wrong way when I'm on the internet, but in the real world I'm too busy to even have this kind of cash grab register. Why I share these things in comment threads, who knows. Like my opinion of Crass is important at all. Or yours. We should all get better hobbies. All 9 of us.

A protest show? Really? Seems damn disrespectful to do to someone who basically created your "scene." This tour has the full support of Penny Rimbaud, Eve and the rest of Crass. You punks really got to find better things to do with your time. Can't you just go to the show and enjoy some great music? Life's too short, which you'll all realize when you're Steve's age. Protest something worth protesting, not an artist that you should respect.

For the record, my comment was directed @1.

no one addresses the fact that Steve Ignorant ever really stopped playing Crass' songs. from Conflict right up to Stratford Mercenaries, they always threw about a half dozen Crass tunes into sets. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I am saying the moral outrage that some people are expressing seemed fairly absent for the past 25 years or so. if the guy wants to do these songs on "one last tour" well...I guess it shouldn't be that surprising or viewed as a bigger betrayal than at any other point after Crass' demise.

@ 10: Fuck punk heroes.

@ 13: I'm sure many would agree to it!

Chris Estey is heading a Q&A session with Steve Ignorant at the Comet from 6-7:30 today. Should be interesting.

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dangerousgift should change his/her name to 'douchebag'. Or 'wankmaster'. or maybe just 'poseur'. I'll be having a great fucking time tonight, enjoying some good old fashioned fuck-the-system punk rock.

To everyone who came out to the Q&A: Thank you so much. Such a wonderful time with Steve and so much great energy. Especially appreciated the awesome questions in addition to my own. To those who saw the show, yes, that really happened. Steve Ignorant let us hear CRASS songs kick the fucking shit out of the system in an awe-inspiring avalanche of rock and roll. The band spit-honed all the best elements of the original group: the unsparing East London pounce, the Punch and Judy satirical power, the near-jazz bass woven through straight-ahead blitzkrieg bunker bop. Also adding behind them a sweetly sentimental still show of the Dial House where it began and raged. One of the best shows I've ever seen. My bones are still rattling! Much love to all who came out and enjoyed it with us; I'm sure you're still in thrall as well.

Calling Crass hippies because they made interesting music, were anti-machismo and lived communally is idiotic, and shows a real ignorance of the history of punk.

@17, and everyone else - VIDEO OF THE Q&A, coming soon!

The Q&A and the show was just incredible. I knew Chris would make the Q&A epic but I had my doubts about the band live. They killed it. I was in elementary school in the hay day of Crass and seeing them last night was perfect. Unbelievable.

@19 Thanks, Kelly O! You're a RAWKGODDEZZ and brilliant at the camera eye! (I adore you.) And B2P, oh hell yeah. I got "schooled" myself last night. Spot on arguably best show I've seen since Joe Strummer at the Showbox.

Have to agree Etsey. Great job on the interview. The show brought back so many emotions, being amongst my old punk rock friends (that are now a bunch of tired old-timers), seeing a band that literally changed my whole way of thinking at the tender age of 16 and realising how completely unique and powerful they were, meeting Steve and finding he's just as genuine and real as I'd imagined him to be, seeing the young kids in the pit and remembering when that was me flailing around. And Dangerous Gift, I feel sorry for you...but it must be really rewarding to know that you're so "punk"...or haven't you heard - PUNK IS DEAD and it's uninspired, pathetic, passionless poseurs like you that killed it. Oh, and totally agree Etsey, that Joe Strummer gig was amazing too.