Crass

“Crass were the missing link between counterculture hippies and punk’s angry rhetoric" Emerging from Dial House - the bohemian commune set up on the outskirts of Epping Forest by Rimbaud and Gee Voucher in the late 60s – there was never any clear division between the band and the house. In essence, they were its musical wing. The constantly rotating cast of artists, filmmakers, writers and drifters that inhabited it ensured people of all backgrounds lived and worked together, Crass being the end result of a wilful subversion of class expectations. “Pay no more than…” cops the phrase on the cover of every Crass record and every release on its label. Insisting on a fair maximum price was a staunch tenet of the band. The introduction of this 'pay no more than' ethos to punk was important because it communicated in a simplistic way that records could be produced and sold for much less than the prices charted at high street record shops. other punk bands followed Crass's example and the '