- When in 1977 Steve Ignorant and myself were mucking about making unpleasant noises in the music-room of Dial House (the open house community which I had founded in 1968), we had little care for any future beyond where our next pack of tobacco might come from. For certain, neither of us would in our wildest dreams have imagined that over a quarter of a century later we would be embroiled in a battle over the whose, whats and wheres of what very soon was to become Crass.