Club Velocity presents
An evening with Steve Ignorant in conversation with Jonny Wah Wah
21 July 2018, 20:30
The Rising Sun Arts Centre, 30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST
Seated show
The evening will start at 8.30pm (so please do not be late). It will be an in-depth conversation with Steve.Johnny will be asking questions about his upbringing, music that influenced him, life in Crass, everything inbetween and right up to what he is currently doing with Slice Of Life.
There will be sections where songs that influenced, mean a lot to Steve and along with some songs by the man himself, will be played over the PA as part of the evening. A Question and Answer section to finish the evening.
Steve Ignorant is a singer and artist. He co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass with Penny Rimbaud in 1977.After Crass stopped performing in 1984, he has worked with other groups including Conflict, Schwartzeneggar, Stratford Mercenaries and Current 93 as well as being an occasional solo performer.He is also a sculptor, and has worked as a traditional Punch and Judy performer using the name Professor Ignorant.
On 24th and 25th November 2007 he performed Crass’s entire The Feeding of the 5000 live at Shepherds Bush Empire, in London, backed by guest musicians. In 2010 Ignorant announced plans to do a tour called “The Last Supper”, performing Crass songs from the period 1977-1982 with largely the same band that performed with him at Shepherd’s Bush, including Gizz Butt, Bob Butler and Spike Smith.[11] In August 2010 Ignorant and Rimbaud took to the stage together to be interviewed by John Robb on the literacy stage at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool where they informed the large crowd that Rimbaud has now given him his blessing to perform Crass material live. On 19 November 2011, Ignorant performed “The Last Supper” at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire where he was joined on stage by Rimbaud and Eve Libertine This was the last time Crass songs were performed live by him.
In 2010 Southern Records published The Rest Is Propaganda, Ignorant’s autobiography co-written with Steve Pottinger
He moved to the Norfolk coast in 2007 where he volunteers as a lifeboatman.
In recent times he has been performing as the front person of Steve Ignorant’s Slice Of Life
