Steve put together a very great band for the last supper event. I went to this with very low expectations, but it turned out to be fantastic. Since most of us will never ever get to see the real band live, this was the closest any of us will get to that. How powerful the performance was! I understand the mantra of Crass and the whole year zero theory, which is why the real band will never pick up their instruments.
Originally the band was one big art project with a mantra that 1984 would be year zero for them. They had a belief that, by 1984, they would have had enough time and fans to convince them to start a pacifistic anarchist revolution. Obviously and unfortunately they were never able to achieve that goal. They gave themselves a short span of 8 years to do that. But what they really managed to do was to help plant the seeds for something bigger to come in the future.
However, Steve was trying to give a new generation that's fallen in love with the words and sounds of Crass a chance to experience some of the power that the band had. His whole opinion of the event was to have fun and experience what the band was like. Steve has been trying to convey what his experiences with the band was like. He remembers his experience with the band as having a great time. While other founding members like Penny Rimbaud remember it as being serious and having an agenda. While that may be true for the rest of them, the photos of the original band that were being shown on a video screen showed a more personal look at the band. They were all smiling and you could get the sense that they loved what they were doing, their fans and each other. You certainly got a sense that their punk scene was much stronger, tighter and had much more love and desire to do something different.
I really think that is the message that Steve Ignorant was trying to get at. Kinda like 'this is how we did it, we were serious but we had fun doing it, now its your turn to do it and hopefully you can do it better'. A sort of passing-of-the-torch to another generation. Anyways, I certainly had a blast and that show has a very special place in my heart. Steve was very thankful to everyone for allowing him to be able to present everyone with a chance for him to do the event. He also said that Penny Rimbaud sends his love.