[from Britain] I liked punk in high school
before I listened to punk – it was the ethic of punk that mattered to me but I
didn’t find out until I was trained at the Rockboy School of Punk that there’s
a lot of punk music that does NOT have that ethic I like – Crass is a band that
has that ethic – their politics and passion are spot on – rather than Crass
themselves, this was actually “Steve Ignorant’s Crass Songs – The Last Supper
Tour” or the lead singer touring on his own and doing Crass songs - this show
was great except I couldn’t understand a single word the extremely British, or
maybe cockney British, vocalist was singing – not a word – the crowd was pretty
deliriously happy though (and not noticeably punk which was interesting – it
was a motley crowd) and I did enjoy watching the mosh pit manager manage the
moshers – it also occurred to me that he wasn’t really singing but was doing
spoken word and practically could be attributed with being one of the first
hardcore rappers which is more evidence for the punkness of Wu-Tang - ha – “Do
they owe us a living? Of course they do! Of course they do!” (Photo courtesy of
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