Penny Rimbaud “Crass were not important”

Posted on February 8, 2008February 9, 2008 by AL Puppy

I may have misquoted the man, but you can check the details on this 5 minute You Tube clip

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=-QnWpywIy3s

V.Vale of RE:Search / San Francisco interviews Penny Rimbaud 19 January 2008

16 comments

sean
February 8, 2008 at 2:20 pm

I think he said that crass were not important to him,as in not the defining factor/moment of his life.I once dropped a table on his foot,something Ive always been proud of…
Nic
February 8, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Were they not important because he was already an old fart before they began?
😉
Tony Puppy
February 8, 2008 at 11:22 pm

There’s a lot of interesting Crass stuff on You Tube – links to the right of this one.
Penguin
February 9, 2008 at 12:10 am

I have Crass last ever ‘press’ interview at Dial House circa 1984 on a
P5-90 cini-tape here, need it converted. Will sort that at some point.
Tony Puppy
February 9, 2008 at 12:17 am

I have a carbon copy of the letter I wrote to Penny in 1983 asking him to write for Punk Lives.

Wanna see it?

Well it’s in the photo gallery now, in it’s own album – Tony Writes to Penny.

7 pages.
davecress
April 12, 2008 at 5:49 pm

just found ya site and been downloading some bands so thanx for that just finding my way but great work mate
dave from anarcho band cress
Penguin
April 12, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Welcome aboard Dave, you may like to search for the Crass practise / interview tapes I put up a while ago now. Use the search function.
Steve
April 12, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Penguin – is there any chance you could post at some point the 1984 interview you mentioned? I would LOVE to hear that…
Penguin
April 12, 2008 at 7:26 pm

Keep forgetting to transfer it from the old format. Will try to remember.
Steve
April 12, 2008 at 7:45 pm

Cheers!

If you’re doing requests, I’d love to hear some more Fuck Off stuff too!
Jim V
April 15, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Ask him yourself …Pogo Cafe hackney…
davecress
April 16, 2008 at 1:57 pm

cheers penguin ill check erm out
finally finished the book the day the country died great read and got me looking up all the old bands how i got put onto this site,i did ave the issue with crass?ants in it probally still got it somewhere
Nic
April 16, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Dave – the next book in Ian Glasper’s series (after ‘The Day the Country Died’) is currently being written: it’s on the Hardcore / Thrash scene of the mid-to-late 1980’s, and should be another interesting read…
Carl
April 17, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Both Ian Glasper’s book’s have been good reads, but the thing that struck me about them both was how few of the bands across the books I had any time for …

And as a consequence of the books, I have revisited the like’s of Flux and Crass to see if I missed the point all those years ago. I hadn’t. They were still crap. In terms of the “Day the country Died”..the more interesting bands are the ones that didn’t follow the Crass route and struck out on the own with a bit of colour and flair.
ganarchaicboy
May 17, 2009 at 2:23 am

I was there all the time and no one ever said hi. 🙂 How insignificant are we?
Birmingham 1980 Digbeth Civic Hall
Annie Anxiety
Flux of Pink Indians
numerous as well. Thats when life was real !!!
I still know it is.
there is no justice just us >>>
to yourself be true always .. PS punks not dead just havin a day off 🙂
Nic
May 17, 2009 at 11:43 am

I’ve still got my ticket and the poster for that Digbeth concert, ganarchaic…
🙂