Posted in Penny Rimbaud, Press on January 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
PENNY RIMBAUD IS interviewed in the online edition of Crack magazine.
Dave Reed travelled to Dial House to talk with Rimbaud about his life history, the work of Crass, and Rimbaud’s views on aspects of the current political and cultural scenes (with the latter subject eliciting some predictably provocative responses).
Davy Reed. 2019. ‘Penny Rimbaud: Freedom Fighting’, Crack, 12 January. https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/penny-rimbaud-freedom-fighting/
Posted in Events, Gee Vaucher, Penny Rimbaud on September 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Penny Rimbaud
What Passing Bells… The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Music by Liam Noble and Kate Shortt
Visuals by Gee Vaucher
11 October 2018 | 20:00
Corsica Studios
Units 4/5, Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
Tickets £12.00 advance
A NIGHT OF WORDS, MUSIC & VISUALS AT CORSICA STUDIOS
We are honoured to be able to announce that for our inaugural show, we have a performance by PENNY RIMBAUD.
Co-founder of the original Anarchist project CRASS, he is a musician, an activist, an artist, writer, a humanitarian and a philosopher, tackling subjects of injustice, exploitation, sexism and intolerance,and intent on promoting the notion of PEACE
As we approach 100 years since the end of “The Great War”, what better way to mark this crucial point in time than to join forces and acknowledge the effects of WAR and celebrate the end of one. Penny will be reciting – What Passing Bells… The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, Accompanied by Liam Noble on Piano Kate Shortt on Cello. Visuals to be provided by the outstanding Gee Vaucher in what promises, be a truly intense performance.
Posted in Penny Rimbaud, Press, Releases on November 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
WITH THE RELEASE of What Passing Bells: The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, Penny Rimbaud discusses the project (and life, the universe and everything else) with Noisey’s Jamie Thomson. Of his work on the Wilfred Owen project he says:
I wouldn’t have done it if it was just a horror story. Because certainly, equally, his poetry is more powerful than any I know of describing the horror and the misery in the trenches, but at the same time there’s this sort of strange, deep love of the people who he was there with, which is the very love that he went back. I mean, he was hospitalised and actually could very easily not have gone back, but he did go back. He went back not because he believed in the war, but that he did believe in his men and loved his men.
Jamie Thomson. 2017. ‘War all the time: a conversation with Crass’ Penny Rimbaud’, Noisey, 10 November https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/ne394x/a-conversation-with-crass-penny-rimbaud
Posted in Crass, Gee Vaucher, Penny Rimbaud on October 26, 2017| 1 Comment »
EXITSTENCIL PRESS ARE planning to republish all issues of International Anthem (the ‘nihilist newspaper for the living’ first produced by Gee Vaucher in 1977) in book format. Three issues were produced between 1977 and 1980.
In the pipeline – A publication that brings together the five International Anthems (published and unpublished) made between 1978-1982, into one book. This will hopefully be available towards the end of the year. International Anthem was created by Gee Vaucher as a vehicle for her own work and that of friends including, Eve Libertine, Penny Rimbaud, Dave King.
Posted in Crass, Penny Rimbaud on October 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
PENNY RIMBAUD APPEARED ON BBC Radio 6 this weekend discussing the lyrics of punk with British poet Murray Lachlan Young and punk magazine editor Kirsty Allison.
The playlist featured a wide array of punk artists, and includes the Crass tracks ‘Punk is Dead’, ‘End Result’, ‘Fight War Not Wars’, ‘Bloody Revolutions’, ‘Yes Sir I Will’ [extract] Jeffrey Lewis’ cover version of ‘Where Next Columbus?’ and Penny Rimbaud, Kate Short and Liam Noble performing ‘Anthem For The Doomed Youth’ from the forthcoming What Passing Bells: The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
British poet Murray Lachlan Young takes a lyrical look at the world of punk.
He’s joined in the studio by Penny Rimbaud who co-founded the Anarcho-punk band Crass in 1977.
Punk poet, DIY club runner and punk magazine editor Kirsty Allison will also join in the discussion.
Punk lyrics with Murray Lachlan Young was first broadcast on 22 October, and in the UK is available on the BBC iPlayer until 21 November 2017.
Posted in Events, Penny Rimbaud, Releases on October 4, 2017| 4 Comments »
AHEAD OF THE release of Penny Rimbaud’s What Passing Bells, a reading of the war poems of Wilfred Owen set to an original musical soundtrack, on the One Little Indian label in November, Patrick Clarke of The Quietus discusses Rimbaud’s views on Owen’s poetry; the process of developing the studio recording; and his perspectives on politics and culture, both contemporary and historic.
In a new short documentary, Noisey invites Rimbaud to reflect further on the power of Owen’s words and the relationship between his own personal and political history and his musical and philosophical worldview.
Posted in Penny Rimbaud, Press on October 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »
IN THIS MONTH’S edition of Wire magazine, Penny Rimbaud is invited to identify and comment on a series of recordings from an ‘invisible jukebox’ compiled by Phil England.
Phil England [testing Penny Rimbaud]. 2017. ‘Invisible Jukebox’. Wire, No 404, October, pp.24-27.
Each month we play a musician or group a series of records which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. This month it’s the turn of Penny Rimbaud. Will the veteran anarchist find The Wire‘s mystery collection crass?
Rich Cross. 2017. 'Fifteen shades of grey', in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), And All Around Was Darkness, Itchy Monkey Press, pp.218-227. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7.
Rich Cross. 2016. '"Stop the City showed another possibility": Mobilisation and Movement in Anarcho-Punk', in Matt Worley and Mike Dines (eds.), The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music - 1979-1984, Minor Compositions: Colchester / New York / Port Watson. ISBN 978-1-57027-318-6 [ Free eBook download | Print copy available to buy from Minor Compositions ]
Rich Cross. 2016. '"Why do you think that they are laughing?", in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), 'Some of Us Scream Some of Us Shout': Myths, Folklore and Epic Tales of the Anarcho, (Itchy Monkey Press) [ Buy from Active Distribution or Situation Press ]
AK Press – Revolution by the Book
