Penny Rimbaud Livres

First published in 1982 as part of The Crass' Christ: The Album', The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centred on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution. Wally Hope was a visionary and a freethinker who helped to create the Stonehenge Free Festival. Wally was arrested after having been found with a small amount of LSD. He was later released, and subsequently died. The official verdict was suicide, but Rimbaud uncovered strong evidence that he was murdered.'

"An enor-mous-ly ambitious and sonorous work of the eye-magination." —Lawrence FerlinghettiThe Diamond Signature is what Penny Rimbaud considers his most important work. It formed the basis for the band CRASS, who revolutionized both punk rock and politics in a blistering seven year career, which found them reviled by the mainstream, and revered by hundreds of thousands in the underground they helped to create."The first draft of The Diamond Signature was completed in 1974 and since then has been revised countless times. I have always regarded it as an organic work that could be added to or taken away from at will—several sections of it were adapted for us by CRASS, the anarchist punk band with whom I was drummer and lyricist, other sections have been liberally scattered through subsequent novels."—From the preface.Penny Rimbaud was a cofounder of the Stonehenge Free Festivals, and the main protagonist in the legendary anarchist punk band CRASS. He is the author of A Series Of Shock Slogans And Mindless Token Tantrums and the spoken word CDs Christ's Reality Asylum and The Death Of The Imagination.

RE/Search has been fortunate to have had several visits from Penny Rimbaud and fellow-CRASS founder, Gee Vaucher over the past decade. They come to the United States and to San Francisco full of ideas, creative impulses, energy and the know-how to reach their audience. On many occasions there have been lengthy conversations with Penny Rimbaud, who is equaled only by V. Vale in his enthusiasm and knowledge of things non-mainstream. The book distills some of these conversations into a small, pithy volume, easier to carry than an iPhone, and readable from the bus to the bathtub.

Die britischen Crass waren eine der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Bands der europäischen Punk- und Hardcore-Bewegung. Ihre vom Geist des Anarchismus geprägten Texte und ihr Kampf gegen musikalischen Mainstream, Sexismus, Tierversuche sowie die reaktionäre Politik der 1980er-Jahre trugen maßgeblich zur Politisierung der Szene bei. Auch das collagenhafte Schwarzweiß-Layout ihrer Schallplatten war für die gesamte Bewegung stilbildend. Crass-Schlagzeuger Penny Rimbaud gibt in seiner spannenden Autobiographie Einblick in den vom Ideal der absoluten Selbstverwaltung geprägten Alltag dieser Ausnahmeband und in die bewegten Entstehungsjahre von Punk in Großbritannien. Doch “Shibboleth” ist mehr als nur eine Bandgeschichte. Es handelt in poetischer, romanhafter Sprache vom Lebensweg eines Menschen, der sich nie hat anpassen wollen, für den Rebellion gegen bestehende Verhältnisse noch immer zur höchsten Form menschlichen Glücks gehört.