Steve Ignorant’s Slice Of Life acoustic band announced their 2017 Tour

WINDSWEPT AND INTERESTING

Starting at the 100 Club in London on the 7^th April they will tour across the UK and Ireland.

After the success of their previous albums ‘Love And A Lamp-post’ and ‘Live At The Forum 2015’ they will release their new EP ‘Just Another’ on Harbinger Sound (home to Sleaford Mods, Mark Wynn, Chaos UK and many alternative others) at the beginning of April.

After 40 years the righteous anger still burns with Ignorant. The legendary Crass frontman is accompanied by Carol Hodge (piano), Pete Wilson (guitar), and Pete Rawlinson (bass).

Steve Ignorant’s

Slice Of Life

 “Years ago I read a book called

Brighton Rock, for days the

atmosphere of that story stayed

with me and I’ve always wanted to

create an album that would have

that same effect on people.” —–

——————– Steve Ignorant

Having cut his punk teeth in Crass, Steve Ignorant’s latest project – Slice Of Life – allows for the more contemplative side of his song-writing to reveal itself. Like musical depictions of a British kitchen-sink drama, the songs on the debut album Love and a Lamp-post (Overground Records, 2014) and Live At The Forum 2015 (Overground Records, 2015) provide vivid vignettes of the everyday. Both personal and universal, Slice of Life present ruminations from the bar stool honed on the late-night walk home. Musically, the band is built on an acoustic arrangement of piano, guitar and bass. Having shed the punk noise that defined Crass, Slice of Life retain the emotional impact and compassion that has long distinguished Steve’s work.

Last year, Slice of Life were writing new songs and touring extensively all over the UK and Europe. They have supported kindred-spirits Sleaford Mods to capacity crowds at venues such as London’s Forum and performed at the Rebellion, Wickerman and Something Else A Bit North festivals. In so doing, the band have won over many new fans and rekindled the interest of many an older punk rocker.

For 40 years Steve has been shouting down a microphone and there is plenty more to shout about, because of that he and the band will release their new EP Just Another (Harbinger Sound, 2017) and start their WINDSWEPT AND INTERESTING TOUR on 7^th April at The 100 Club, London.

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Steve Ignorant is a singer/songwriter and co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass with Penny Rimbaud in 1977. After Crass, he sang with Conflict, Schwartzenegger and Stratford Mercenaries. In 2007 he performed Crass’ entire Feeding of the 5000 album live at the Shepherds Bush Empire and throughout 2010-2011 presented The Last Supper, touring/celebrating the songs of Crass around the globe.

In 2013 Steve and Paranoid Visions decided to work together and has since recorded two albums. “When …?” and “Now And Then” both albums are a hybrid of styles, all with a nod to early 80s anarcho-punk. They now perform live on special occasions.

Steve has taken part in many Conferences/Literary Festivals: Louder Than Words in Manchester, Rock Fest in Quebec, KISMIF in Porto, Rebellion in Blackpool and Primavera sound Fest in Barcelona to name but a few.

Carol Hodge provided the female vocals in Steve’s Last Supper band from January 2011. Previous projects Wrecks and Bad Taste Barbies. Carol also plays piano and sings solo as Carol Hodge (FKA Crystal Grenade).

Pete Wilson joined The Last Supper band when he took over on bass in 2011. He has played guitar and bass in several bands, including Wrecks, Andy T and Lies, All Lies.

Peter Rawlinson currently plays solo as Little Hero and plays guitar in garage/psych band Three Dimensional Tanx who released their 3rd album last year. Before Slice of Life he played with Pete Wilson in Lies, All Lies.

Press Quotes

“Crass has a huge legacy and their importance can’t be overstated, but Steve was always just an ordinary, if intelligent, punk who happened to become the singer. He didn’t ask to be cast as some sort of ‘Voice of a Generation’. This album is his chance to move on and he has succeeded in making an interesting album full of honesty and gritty charm.”

– Louder Than War

“Talking of Crass, Steve Ignorant is here with his Slice of Life acoustic band. He may be 57 but the righteous anger still burns within Ignorant. Between songs, Ignorant is an engaging raconteur, with tales from his childhood, through Crass up to today and the Sea Palling volunteer lifeboat crew. Behind Ignorant, Carol Hodge, Pete Wilson and Pete Rawlinson play music from the great Love And A Lamppost album and beyond. This may be gentler on the ear than Crass, Schwartzeneggar, Paranoid Visions or pretty much anything else Ignorant has done but it is no less intense or cathartic. (10/10)”                                                                                                       -Outline Online

“Folk-flecked, contemplative and primarily acoustic in design, their debut, Love And A Lamp-post, is a radical stylistic about-turn. Long-term fans expecting hobnailed punk anthems and Ignorant’s trademark rancid bark will instead be challenged by accessibly melodic, piano-framed outings.”

– Record Collector

“His instantly recognisable vocal is much more sedate, considered and subtle than anything he has done before. This is coupled with purely acoustic instruments – guitar, lots of piano, upright bass and, in one case, trumpet. The result is intimate, low-key, personal, deceptively easy listening in fact but, maybe it’s Ignorant’s vocal, it’s also totally addictive.”

– Scanner Zine