Penny Rimbaud circa 1977

Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England), better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Northwood is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Hillingdon. ... Middlesex as a traditional county before 1888. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... EXIT were a performance art group during the mid 1970s. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Crass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Steve Ignorant performing with Crass at the Autonomy Centre, East London, December 1981 Steve Ignorant is a singer and artist. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

Rimbaud (so named as a tribute to poet Arthur Rimbaud) set up the anarchist/pacifist Dial House community in 1967 with Gee Vaucher, and, together with his friend Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), helped to instigate the free festival movement at Windsor and later Stonehenge during the early 1970s. As documented in Rimbaud's essay Last of the Hippies [1] and his autobiography Shibboleth, Russell was arrested and incarcerated in a mental institution after having been found in possession of a small amount of LSD. He was later released, but appeared to have been seriously mentally damaged by his experiences, especially the side effects of prescription drugs that he had been administered, and subsequently committed suicide. Rimbaud has claimed that it was his anger over unanswered questions surrounding his friend's death that fueled and inspired him to form Crass. Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born on October 20, 1854, in Charleville and died on November 10, 1891 in Marseille. ... Pacifism is opposition to the use of force to settle disagreements, specifically the taking up of arms in war. ... Dial House is a sixteenth-century farm cottage nestling deep in the countryside in Essex, England, fringing Epping Forest. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gee Vaucher, born Dagenham, East London, 1945. ... Free festivals are music, arts or cultural festivals for which no admission is charged. ... Windsor (IPA: usually , but also ) is a small town in Berkshire on the south-western outskirts of London, south of the River Thames. ... Stonehenge Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salisbury. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ... A prescription drug is a medication that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. ... The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...

Penny Rimbaud (seated) and Gee Vaucher, 2002

Although Crass disbanded in 1984, Rimbaud continued to write and perform both as a solo artist and as a part of the Crass Collective alongside other ex members of the band as well as other artists and musicians. His works include the originally self-published Reality Asylum [2], a vitriolic attack on the myths behind Christianity which has appeared as a 2 minute track on Crass' 1978 debut album The Feeding of the 5000 (although initially the track was removed due to workers at the Irish pressing plant where the record was manufactured threatening to strike due to its allegedly 'blasphemous' content), as a longer single [3] and as a 45 minute spoken word monologue; Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will [4]; The Death of Imagination (a 'musical drama in 4 parts'); The Diamond Signature (published by AK Press) and Oh America, a response to the events of September 11 2001 and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it [5]. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crass Agenda is the working title of a series of collaborations by ex-members of the anarchist punk band Crass and others. ... Self-publishing is the publishing of books or other media by those who have written them. ... Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The Feeding of the 5000 is the first album by Crass, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). ... Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God or the gods, and by extension any display of gross irreverence towards any person or thing deemed worthy of exalted esteem. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, also Leader of the Opposition from 1975, and the only woman to date to hold those positions. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Falklands War or the Malvinas War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), was an armed conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, also known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas, between March and June of 1982. ... Yes Sir, I Will, released by Crass in 1983 (see 1983 in music), was the bands final official album. ... AK Press is an independent, collectively owned and operated publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical and anarchist literature. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... The war on terrorism or war on terror (abbreviated in U.S. policy circles as GWOT for Global War on Terror) is an effort by the governments of the United States and its principal allies to destroy groups deemed to be terrorist (primarily radical Islamist organizations such as al-Qaeda...

Since 2003 he has worked as part of Crass Agenda, performing live and releasing material including Savage Utopia, a collaboration with Coldcut's Matt Black and other jazz musicians, and How?, a reworking of Allen Ginsberg's beat poem Howl. He has also completed the philosophical work "This Crippled Flesh" which is expected to be a rumination on Politics, Punk and pigs! 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crass Agenda is the working title of a series of collaborations by ex-members of the anarchist punk band Crass and others. ... Coldcut is a duo made up of English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan Moore. ... Matt Black (real name Matthew Cohen) is a British DJ and one half of Coldcut (along with Jonathan Moore). ... Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco. ... The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: This is... Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books Howl is a poem by Allen Ginsberg that was first performed in 1955 in the Six Gallery in San Francisco. ...

References

• A Series Of Shock Slogans And Mindless Token Tantrums (Exitstencil Press, 1982) (originally issued as a pamphlet with the LP Christ The Album, much of the text is now published online at [6])
• Shibboleth- My Revolting Life (Penny Rimbaud, 1999, AK Press)
• The Diamond Signature (Penny Rimbaud, 1999, AK Press)

External links

• Rimbaud's website
• Interview with Penny Rimbaud
• The Pig's Head Controversy
• Extract from Fierce dancing by C.J.Stone, Rimbaud talking about Wally Hope