EXIT were a

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group during the mid-1970s. EXIT members

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and

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later founded

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punk rock band

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, adopting many of EXIT's experimental/multi media techniques into Crass' presentation. The group performed as part of the 1972 ICES festival at the Roundhouse. Rimbaud acknowledges that EXIT in turn had been involved with the

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Movement (of which

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was a member). He also states that Crass was more influenced by the

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than by any

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precedent.

Discography

*EXIT ''The Mystic Trumpeter - Live at the Roundhouse 1972, The ICES Tapes'' (Exit Stencil Music Cat No. EXMO2, CD and book, 2013)

References

Crass Theatre companies in the United Kingdom {{Theat-stub