Watch: Crass ‘There is No Authority but Yourself’

Crass? Yeah, that band of crusty Anarcho-punks that lived in a commune, graffitied the London Underground, conned that teen-girl magazine into carrying one of their songs as a cover mount flexi-disc, released a fake tape of a Thatcher/Regan phone conversation to the press, got Rough Trade employees to slot their records inside the sleeves of other bands at their distro warehouse, financed a Anarchist centre in London, squatted at the Zig-Zag Club, promised to break up in 1984 and did so at a tiny miners benefit gig in Aberdare, Wales.

Crass lived for seven furious years, a constant thorn in the side of Thatcher’s government, gave themselves a shelf life and died on cue. What better subject for a documentary? Too late, the Dutch made one in 2006.

Watch ‘There is No Authority but Yourself’ in its entirety below, and get Penny Rimbaud, Steve Ignorant and co’s autobiographical history of the band, their views on David Beckham’s Gaulitier designed ‘Crass’ t-shirt and how through their Thatchergate tape, they managed to leak top secret information on the sinking of the HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War and their subsequent courting by the KGB.