Psychic TV
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subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
Throbbing Gristle described as a "rock band"!
They were a rock band - or at least they were by the time they packed in. Listening to TG24, the early gigs they're experimenting with sound and noise. The later gigs they're just turning up and running through their repertoire of "songs", which get to be very boring very quickly.
subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
Simon silverdollarcircle
Well-known member
I love coil with a mad passion. That's made me prejudiced against psychic tv cos of the schism.
I think some dissensians were involved with TOPY? Eden, may be? Fascinated to know what it was really like
I think some dissensians were involved with TOPY? Eden, may be? Fascinated to know what it was really like
Simon silverdollarcircle
Well-known member
When we're allowed outside again I'll buy you a beer and you can tell me all about it
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
When you have the time we'd all like to hear about it
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
whats not interesting to you will no doubt be really cool to us!
Simon silverdollarcircle
Well-known member
Mistersloane told me he was an official member of Coil once. Only for a day, but that's still pretty
Is mistersloane the infamous Otto Avery ?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Is mistersloane the infamous Otto Avery ?
That's not his real name but he may have used a stage name so who knows?
For me, a lot of it was bound up with v different stuff than "industrial culture", which is maybe lost when you read about this stuff from a distance. I was never into the music (was more into rap, house music and "rare groove" at the time) Meeting people from TOPY was an outgrowth of my interest in fanzines and mail art really. It did prove a catalyst for exploring lots of other stuff though, a lot of which is still with me in mutated form. It also gave some grounding to my early interest in drugs and altered states - I built a dream machine out of card which I put on top of my family's old record player in our front room, for instance, started meditating, keeping a dream diary, tons of other stuff.
Never met Gen but he provides vivid confirmation of something I've known for a long time - that commitment to alternative ideas and ideologies means pretty much nothing if the person is damaged underneath all this. It can in fact do the opposite - provide clever justifications for just being an utter cunt. (Being involved in any political grouping for more than 10 seconds should bring this home if you got any brains at all - Wilhelm Reich nailed it way back).
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pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
was watching an awkward nardwuar vs gen interview yesterday and nard asked gen if sleazy's parents knew the queen. gen said yes, lord and lady christopherson were actually good friends with her and would go for tea and chat over dinner and whatnot. at one dinner the queen asked lady c. what young peter was doing these days and she said 'he's working with an artist called genesis p. orridge.' the queen, slightly rattled, turned to the head of MI5 and said 'we know all about this person, don't we.' who then said 'you should get your son away from this person, lady christopherson.'
*shrug*
kind of funny to think of the queen being aware of gen
*shrug*
kind of funny to think of the queen being aware of gen
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Love it. The idea that anyone could constitute a bad influence on Sleazy is pretty hilarious.
jenks
thread death
Sounds like classic Gen self-aggrandisement. He also claimed that people were trying to get hold of him teh night Ian Curtis. He loved to insert himself into the story.