Penny Rimbaud

Penny Rimbaud
Penny Rimbaud in Girlfriend in a Kimono, (2005)
Background information
Birth name	Jeremy John Ratter
Born	(1943-06-08) 8 June 1943 (age 81) South West London, United Kingdom
Genres	Anarcho-punk, spoken word
Occupation(s)	Writer, poet, philosopher, performance artist, musician
Instrument(s)	Drums, vocals
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	Small Wonder, Crass, Exitstencilisms
Website	web.archive.org/web/20220122172914/http://onoffyesno.com/ (archived)

Penny Lapsang Rimbaud (born Jeremy John Ratter, 1943) is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and in 1972 was co-founder of the Stonehenge Free Festival, together with Phil Russell aka Wally Hope. In 1977 with Steve Ignorant, he co-founded the seminal anarchist punk band Crass and served as its drummer. Crass disbanded in 1984. Until 2000 Rimbaud devoted himself almost entirely to writing, returning to the public platform in 2001 as a performance poet working with Australian saxophonist Louise Elliott and a wide variety of jazz musicians under the umbrella of Last Amendment.