Radio Gonzo

I first met Steve Ignorant in person during the autumn of 1982 when I was a student nurse at the now defunct Royal Western Counties Hospital for the Mentally Handicapped, in South Devon. The story of how I managed to blag the authorities to let me take a group of mentally handicapped children and young adults to see a performance by Crass (I told the powers that be that they were going to see a youth orchestra) has been told on many occasions, most notably in Steve's autobiography The Rest is Propaganda, and I won't repeat it here. Some weeks later I went to visit Crass at their legendary open house in Essex. I met Steve again, and we talked briefly about the state of the nation, his plans for the future, and whether Margaret Thatcher was going to start World War III. Fast forward thirty something years and through a series of coincidences I find myself working with him for the first time. He has released two CD/DVD packs celebrating firstly his 2007 show at The Shepherds Bush Empire where he and a pi