formed in Brighton

Poison Girls formed in Brighton in 1976, before moving to Burleigh House in Essex , near to Dial House , the home of fellow anarchist band Crass , with whom they worked closely for a number of years, playing over 100 gigs with the band. In 1979 they contributed to the revival of the peace movement by playing a number of benefit gigs with Crass and paying for the production of the first CND badges since CND’s heyday. Again in 1979, and again with Crass, they proved influential to the establishment of the short lived Wapping Autonomy Centre by contributing the track Persons Unknown to a split single with Crass (who contributed Bloody Revolutions ) and raising over £10,000. Their song Bully Boys , an attack on violent machismo led to the band being attacked by members of the National Front .