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Jeremy John Ratter (born 8th June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England) is better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud. He 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.Rimbaud (so named as a tribute to poet Arthur Rimbaud) set up the anarchist/ pacifist Dial HouseDial House is a sixteenth-century farm cottage nestling deep in the countryside in Essex, England, fringing Epping Forest. Since 1967 the place has been an anarchist- pacifist open house, the base of operations for a number of cultural, artistic and polit community in 1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio with Gee VaucherGee Vaucher born Dagenham, East London, 1945. Gee Vaucher (standing) pictured with Penny Rimbaud, 2003 Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was seminal to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change, in th, and, together with his friend Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope ), helped to instigate the free festival movement at WindsorWindsor (usually pronounced 'winzer', but the d may be included) is a small town in Berkshire on the south-western outskirts of London, south of the River Thames. It is the location of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British royal fa and later StonehengeStonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument located near Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salisbury. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones, known as megaliths. There is during the early 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends. 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 LSDD-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide commonly called acid LSD or LSD-25 is a powerful semisynthetic hallucinogen and psychedelic entheogen. A typical dose of LSD is only 100 micrograms, a tiny amount equal to one-tenth the weight of a grain of sand. LSD causes of. 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.
Although Crass disbanded in 1984, Rimbaud continues 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].
Since 2003 he has worked as part of Crass Agenda, 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.
