This is very much worth a read... "bands are essentially social experiments, and solo artists are just boring old humans who can sing and write music."
Joe Banks
I have managed to get a big picture of Crass into the Financial Times magazine which is probably a first? Here is my Experts in a Dying Field-adjacent essay on bands as "utopian projects" www.ft.com/content/c902...
‘An interest in music can be helpful if you’re in a band but it is, actually, beside the point’
