Your Country Needs You

In November 2002 several former members arranged Your Country Needs You, a concert of “voices in opposition to war”, as the Crass Collective . At Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank , Your Country Needs You included Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and performances by Goldblade , Fun-Da-Mental , Ian MacKaye and Pete Wright’s post-Crass project, Judas 2. In October 2003 the Crass Collective changed their name to Crass Agenda , with Rimbaud, Libertine and Vaucher working with Matt Black of Coldcut and jazz musicians such as Julian Siegel and Kate Shortt . In 2004 Crass Agenda spearheaded a campaign to save the Vortex Jazz Club in Stoke Newington , north London (where they regularly played). In June 2005 Crass Agenda was declared to be “no more”, changing its name to the “more pertinent” Last Amendment. After a five-year hiatus, Last Amendment performed at the Vortex in June 2012. Rimbaud has also performed and recorded with Japanther and the Charlatans . A “new” Crass track (a remix of 1982’s “Major General Despair” with new lyrics), “The Unelected President”, is available.