EXITSTENCIL PRESS HAVE just released two new print works reflecting different elements of the unpublished Crass archive.
A ‘special edition’ of the unreleased fifth issue of International Anthem, and a booklet combining the never-before-published Jon Savage interview with the band (originally intended to inform the section of England’s Dreaming discussing Crass) and a reproduction of the rarely seen Life Amongst the Little People, are both now available from the Exitstencil Press site.
International Anthem, Number 5
Special Edition published for Gee Vaucher’s NYC exhibition at White Columns 2024. First originated in 1983 during the Falklands War, but never printed. Size 270mm x 345mm
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International Anthem. Number five [special edition]. London: Exitstencil Press, 2004. https://www.exitstencilpress.com/product-page/international-anthem-5
Four Years After & Counting
In 1991, a book by Jon Savage, was published in Britain called ‘England’s Dreaming’: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock’ which took a broad look at punk in 70’s London.
In 1989, Jon travelled to Dial House, the home of Crass, to interview them for inclusion in the book. However, when presented with the final manuscript, the publishers, Faber and Faber, rejected the section devoted to Crass, replacing it with a one-liner which read ‘Crass deserve a book of their own’. And so it goes.
Never having been published before, Jon has now, in 2024, kindly allowed Crass to present the interview as a wee ‘book of their own’, 35 years later.
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Four Years After and Counting – Jon Savage, The Crass Interview 04.05.89. Transcript: Marc Issue Robinson & Penny Rimbaud / Life Amongst the Little People – photos of a silkscreen book created at Dial House 1978. Special Edition published for Gee Vaucher’s NYC Exhibition at White Columns 2024. London: Exitstencil Press, 2024. https://www.exitstencilpress.com/product-page/four-years-after-and-counting
The Hippies Now Wear Black 