Eve Libertine (born Bronwyn Lloyd Jones; 1949) is an English singer. She was one of the vocalists who worked with English

anarcho-punk Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, hardcor ...

band

Crass Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk s ...

. Her works with the band include the single "Reality Asylum", as well as performing most of the vocals on the group's third album, ''

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'' (1981), the lyrics of which have a heavy

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content. After the dissolution of Crass in 1984, Libertine worked with her son Nemo Jones, a guitarist. She trained as a classical singer and has performed as part of

Crass Agenda Last Amendment, formerly known as The Crass Collective and Crass Agenda, is the working title of a series of collaborations by ex-members of the anarcho-punk band Crass and others. Although Crass had formally split up in 1984, Penny Rimbaud, G ...

(renamed

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as of 2005) and with

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, Matt Black,

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, and

Kate Shortt Kate Shortt is a British pianist, cello player, songwriter and comedian. Since training as a professional musician at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has performed her cabaret style sets at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as the Hack ...

. Libertine held her first exhibition of artwork, entitled ''Head On'', at the 96 Gillespie gallery,

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, London, in September 2005. She has designed album sleeves for Christine Tobin and Partisans. Bracketpress released a limited edition set of cards with her artwork to raise funds for Butterfield Green Community Orchard in north London. In June 2010 ''Listen, Little Man!'' premiered in Brussel. Drawing on the writings and research of

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, it is a semi-improvised performance for voice and signal generators with a back projected, scrolling graphic score. On 19 November 2011 she made a guest appearance at fellow Crass bandmate

Steve Ignorant Steve Ignorant (born Steven Williams in 1957) is a singer and artist. Career Steve Ignorant was born in Stoke-on-Trent but grew up in Dagenham, East London. He later lived at Dial House, which since 1967 has been a self-sustaining anarchist- ...

's "The Last Supper" where they were joined on stage by Penny Rimbaud.

Discography

(Nb, see also full Crass discography Crass#Discography)

With Crass

* "Reality Asylum" (

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, 1979) * '' The Feeding of the Five Thousand (Second Sitting)'' (Crass Records, 1980. Libertine performs vocals on "Asylum". This track is absent from the original 1978 release of this album on

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due to the allegedly

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content of the lyrics. It is replaced with two minutes of silence entitled "The Sound of Free Speech") * ''

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'' (Crass Records, 1979. Libertine performs vocals on "Darling" and "Demo(n)crats" as well as tracks on the live section of the album) * "

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Nightmare" (Crass Records, 1981) * "Bloody Revolutions" (Crass Records, 1980. Joint released with the

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' "Persons Unknown") * ''

'' (Crass Records, 1981. Libertine performs lead vocals on all tracks apart from "Health Surface" and "Our Wedding") * ''

Christ the Album Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

'' (Crass Records, 1982. Libertine performs backing vocals as well as tracks on the live section of the album) * "The Immortal Death" and "Don't Tell Me You Care" (Crass Records, 1982. 'B' side of the anti-

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single "How Does it Feel to be the Mother of 1000 Dead?") * ''

Yes Sir, I Will ''Yes Sir, I Will'' was the fifth and penultimate album released in March 1983 by anarcho-punk band Crass. The album is a virulent attack on then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher and her government in the aftermath of the ...

'' (Crass Records, 1983) * ''

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'' (Crass Records, 1986) * "The Unelected President" (2003 remix of "Major General Despair" from ''Christ the Album'' with Libertine on vocals)

Post-Crass

* '' Acts of Love'' (Crass Records, 1985, 50 short poems from 1973 by Penny Rimbaud set to

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compositions) * ''

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'' (Red Herring Records, 1989, performs multilayered vocals on an experimental concept album written and composed by A-Soma) * ''Skating The Side of Violence'' (Red Herring Records, 1992, with Nemo Jones) * ''The Death of Imagination - A Musical Drama'' (Red Herring Records, performing writing by Penny Rimbaud with music by A-Soma and Sarah Barton) * ''Savage Utopia'' (

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, 2004, with Crass Agenda) * ''In the Beginning Was the WORD'' - DVD, Live Crass Agenda performance recorded at the Progress Bar, Tufnell Park, London, 18 November 2004 (Gallery gallery Productions @ Le Chaos Factory, 2006)

As guest vocalist

* ''Hex'' -

(Crass Records, Libertine performs 'additional vocals' on "

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Song") * ''Nick Nack Paddy Whack'' -

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(Crass Records, 1986, Libertine performs vocals on one song, "Pills and Ills") * ''Merzbild Schwet'' - Nurse With Wound (United Dairies, 1980, Libertine contributes 'Spoken Word Fragments' to "Dadax") * ''Nothing Comes To Mind'' - A-Soma & The Unlightened (Organon, 1999, Libertine performs additional vocals on "Vortex of Blades", "Canals of Mars" and "Draps Bruts")

References

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