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

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band

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. 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 anarcha-feminist 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 (renamed

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as of 2005) and with

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, Matt Black,

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, and Kate Shortt. 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

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. 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

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'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") * '' 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) * "

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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'' (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?") * ''

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'' (Crass Records, 1983) * '' Ten Notes on a Summer's Day'' (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) * '' Last One Out Turns Off the Lights'' (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'' - 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") * ''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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