Cover sleeve for the long-playing record 'Acts of Love' by Penny Rimbaud of Crass. Colour offset lithograph. Design by Gee Vaucher. Published by Crass Records, Great Britain, 1984.

Cover sleeve for the long-playing record 'Acts of Love', subtitled 'Fifty Songs To My Other Self'.
The album is a recording of 50 poems by Penny Rimbaud of the anarchist punk band Crass, set to classical music composed and arranged by Penny Rimbaud and Paul Ellis, and performed by Steve Ignorant and Eve Libertine. The record was accompanied by a book of 50 paintings by Gee Vaucher (See E.3280-1991).

Given by Gee Vaucher

The album was engineered at Southern Studios, from October 1983 to October 1984, and cut at Utopia Studios in October 1984. It is dedicated “In loving memory of Wally Hope.”

'The final album released under the moniker Crass was Acts Of Love, in 1985.Although attributed to Crass, it would be more accurate to see it as a Penny Rimbaud record with contributions from other Crass people. It consisted of fifty short poems set to quirky discordant music that owed more – much more – to free jazz than punk rock.

Penny Rimbaud:“I remember when we were recording Acts Of Love – Andy coming into the studio and saying he’d like to do something like that himself, meaning he understood that I was trying to make a per- sonal expression within the framework of where we were. I think that was a seed for him. He was a painter before he got involved with the band, and I think that’s how he saw he might be able to express himself, which is what he’s done.”

Gee Vaucher: “For me, Acts Of Love was the starting point anyway – the poems and the original illustrations were done a long time before Crass.They were part of the inspiration, part of the source of going on to say what we did. For me, it’s a return to those roots – not going back- wards, but the source of inspiration within oneself. It’s a very natural extension of what we’ve done with Crass.

“It seemed to be going in the direction of causes.Young people would get caught up in causes and the whole barbaric nature of the cause that they were trying to confront.What we’ve tried to do is remind people of why they were putting themselves in a very dangerous position socially and personally, by making a beautiful record really.”', (see references).

E.3280-1991 is a copy of the book of 50 paintings by Gee Vaucher that accompanied the album.

E.3284-1991