Eve Libertine

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Eve Libertine (real name Bronwyn Lloyd Jones) is a British singer.

She was one of the two female vocalists (along with Joy De Vivre) that worked with the influential British anarcho-punk band Crass. Her works with the band include the controversial single "Reality Asylum", as well as performing most of the vocals on the group's third album, Penis Envy (1981), the lyrics of which have a heavy anarcha-feminist content.

After the dissolution of Crass in 1984, Libertine worked with her guitarist son Nemo Jones, as well as performance artist A-Soma. She also trained as a classical singer, and has recently performed as part of Crass Agenda (renamed Last Amendment as of 2005) along with Penny Rimbaud, Matt Black (of Coldcut), Christine Tobin, Julian Seigal, Ingrid Laubrock, Nabil Shaban, Kate Shortt and others.

Her most recent major work is the 2004 Crass Agenda recording of Penny Rimbaud's Savage Utopia. This is a jazz and breakbeats based composition intended as a critique of consumerism and post '9:11' American culture, on which she performs vocals along with A Soma and Christine Tobin.

Libertine held her first exhibition of artwork, entitled Head On, at the 96 Gillespie gallery, Finsbury Park, London in September 2005 [1].

She currently lives in Stoke Newington, north London.

1 Discography

[edit] Discography

(Nb, see also full Crass discography [2])

[edit] With Crass

"Reality Asylum" (Crass Records, 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 Small Wonder Records due to the alledgedly blasphemous content of the lyrics. It is replaced with two minutes of silence entitled "The Sound of Free Speech")
Stations of the Crass (Crass Records, 1979. Libertine performs vocals on "Darling" and "Demo(n)crats" as well as tracks on the live section of the album)
"Nagasaki Nightmare" (Crass Records, 1981)
"Bloody Revolutions" (Crass Records, 1980. Joint released with the Poison Girls' "Persons Unknown")
Penis Envy (Crass Records, 1981. Libertine performs lead voacls on all tracks apart from "Health Surface" and "Our Wedding")
Christ the Album (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-Falklands War single "How Does it Feel to be the Mother of 1000 Dead?" [3])
Yes Sir, I Will (Crass Records, 1983)
Ten Notes on a Summers Day (Crass Records, 1986)
"The Unelected President" (2003 remix of "Major General Despair" from Christ the Album with Libertine on vocals [4])

[edit] Post-Crass

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Acts of Love (Crass Records, 1985, 50 short poems by Penny Rimbaud set to classical music compositions)
Last One Out Turns Off the Lights (Red Herring Records, 1989, with 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 work by Penny Rimbaud)
Savage Utopia (Babel Label, 2004, with Crass Agenda)
In the Beginning Was the WORD - DVD, Live Crass Agenda performance recorded at the Progress Bar, Tufnell Park, London, 18th November 2004 (Gallery Productions, 2006)

[edit] As guest vocalist

Hex - Poison Girls (Crass Records, Libertine peforms 'additional vocals' on "Bremen Song")
Nick Nack Paddy Whack - Hit Parade (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")