Sounds, erm, pleasant. Never had a single bit of trouble in there, and its 50p pool table is a joy to behold.
No..this was a good few years ago Crass were a left wing punk band...who used right wing imagery like swastikas in a questioning fashion..this led to an audience composed of left and right which appealed to their anarchist tendencies.
Erm, bollocks. Crass were a wholly anarchist band - no "tendencies" about them and to say having fascists in the audience would have "appealed" to them is just, erm, crass. The only place Crass and their ilk wanted fascists was in a shallow grave (albeit they wanted someone else to put them there as they were Cambridge/art school pacifists). The right-wing skins that did attend Crass gigs generally did so either to smash them up ("fucking commie pacifists") or because they were too thick to understand that Crass had a go at the student Trots because they hated the authoritarian Left as much as the authoritarian Right.
[Early morning edit] - you are right about the logo though, which was deliberately designed as "an amalgamation of several "icons of authority" including the Christian Cross, the swastika and the Union Flag combined with a two headed snake consuming itself (to symbolise the idea that power will eventually destroy itself)" (from the Wikipedia). ie it was supposed to be provocative in a bollocky-art-school kind of way. And, from memory, it was also designed to be easy(-ish) to produce spraypaint stencils for but disctinctive enough that their graffiti would be recognised as a part of a campaign. Kind of an early "tag".
Big A Little A is a triumph (as is Bloody Revolutions) - most of the rest of it is a demonstration of why it is important to learn a few chords after all and why atonal singing never really caught on. But the clip of Tim Eggar (and who remembers him now, except as an adjunct to Crass?) trying to justify prosecuting Sheep Farming is still one of the funniest burstings of pomposity I've heard. Sounds like a "Not the Nine O'Clock News" sketch - Jesus I'm irredeemably stuck in the eighties aren't I?
Conflict, now there was a band who couldn't play for shit but who really could start a decent ruck. And no ambiguity about their message, no art school collages, just good honest hopelessly naive anarchist politics, redeemed by a decent smattering of rioting. Stop me before I start talking about Flux of Pink Indians, someone ..... or The Ex - even then, I thought they were crap.
