DIRT (Death Is Reality Today) were an English

anarcho-punk Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, hardcor ...

band from

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, England. Initially formed in 1980 (with a core line-up of Gary Buckley, Deno, Fox, Lou and Vomit), the band frequently played with fellow

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, before releasing their first EP, ''Object, Refuse, Reject, Abuse'' on the

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label. Their second release, ''Never Mind Dirt, Here's the Bollocks'', also on the Crass label, was a live LP released in 1983. The band went into a brief hiatus after 1982 when they took to the road again (Gary and Deno recruiting new members Stuart, Paul and Richard) and recorded the ''Just An Error'' album, after which they split in 1986. Gary and Deno reconvened the band again in 1992 and began touring extensively which resulted in the ''Drunks in Rusty Transits'' album after which the band was dissolved. Singer Gxist (Gary) later formed

Stratford Mercenaries Stratford Mercenaries were an English punk rock band that was formed in late 1995 by Gary "Gazzer" Buckley from the punk band Dirt and Ed "Eddafed" Addley from the punk band Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys. The band was joined by Steve Ignorant ...

with

Steve Ignorant Steve Ignorant (born Steven Williams in 1957) is a singer and artist. Career Steve Ignorant was born in Stoke-on-Trent but grew up in Dagenham, East London. He later lived at Dial House, which since 1967 has been a self-sustaining anarchist- ...

of Crass and Ed "Eddafed" Addley from Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys. The original bass player, Vomit (Vincent Learoyd), went on to form Earth Culture, a neo-pagan band before writing the novel ''The Laila Mythology'' in 2013, collaborating on the book trailer with founder Crass member

Penny Rimbaud Penny Lapsang Rimbaud (born Jeremy John Ratter, 1943) is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and in 1972 was co-founder of the Stonehenge Free Fes ...

Discography

Chart placings shown are from the

UK Indie Chart The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom. Originally published in January 1980, and widely known as the indie chart, the rele ...

EPs

*''Object Refuse Reject Abuse'' (7", 1982) (No. 4) *''Feast or Famine'' (MC, 1993) *''Scent of The Kill'' (7", 1994) *''Beast or Burden?'' (7", 1994)

LPs

*''Never Mind Dirt Here's The Bollocks'' (1983) (No. 4) *''Just an Error'' (1985) *''Drunks in Rusty Transits'' (1995)

Compilations

*''Black & White'' (2xLP/2xCD, 1995)

References

External links

Dirt website
Anarcho-punk groups British crust and d-beat groups English punk rock groups 1980 establishments in England 1986 disestablishments in England Musical groups established in 1980 Musical groups reestablished in 1992 Musical groups disestablished in 1995 {{UK-rock-band-stub