In 1977, alongside Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud co-founded seminal anarchist punk band Crass, who disbanded in 1984. Up until 2000, he devoted himself almost entirely to writing, returning to the public platform in 2001 as a performance poet working alongside a wide variety of jazz musicians. In 2003, together with Crass vocalist Eve Libertine, he founded what was at first known as 'The Crass Collective', then 'The Crass Agenda', then 'The Last Amendment’ and finally 'L’Académie des Vanités' –a loose collective of jazz musicians, artists and filmmakers who shared Rimbaud's lifelong interest in progressive, improvisational art. Rimbaud, a veteran of avant-garde performance art groups such as EXIT and Ceres Confusion, not only co-founded Stonehenge Free Festival, but he also founded and, along with Gee Vaucher, to this day runs the legendary anarchist/pacifist open house Dial House in Essex

Love is untouched by our affections, but what of our affectations? We are always the last to know.
So, the New World Dystopia is setting its sights on a return to the ruinous Old World Normal which in the first place led to the New World Dystopia now setting its sights on the ruinous Old World Normal. The dance goes on; book your ticket for the ma
On the other hand, for all our human strengths and weaknesses, the symbiosis, being as is, remains unmoved and intact. Our differences merely compound our sameness, so where the battle?
To be or not to be? The ego is ever dependent on the tension of opposites, yet there is no I twixt the hammer and the anvil, no middle way, nor even traction. Swallows migrate. The Sphinx rests content.