'wreckers of civilization'

Throbbing Gristle

Founded: 1975-09-03
Terminated: 1981-06-23

Members:

Genesis P-Orridge
Chris Carter
Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson
Cosey Fanni Tutti

Genesis and Cosey had worked with performance art as 'COUM Transmissions'
before entering the musical scene in 1976.
As a group, they experimented with music and its methods, just to see what
could be done with it, just as with performance art. Provocation and the
unexpected was their trademark, and the result was quite enormous.
For their performance (musical and art) at the I.C.A. , the public reaction
(or rather the press's reaction) was that of shock. Members of the
parliament
expressed their outraged views in the press, calling Throbbing Gristle 'sick
people', 'wreckers of civilization' and worse. This gave Throbbing Gristle a
lot of
publicity, and enabled them to get more gigs.
The band used synthesizers, guitars, lots of pedaleffects, bass guitar, tape
cut ups, cornet, and presented a very varied, but mostly noisy,
soundpicture. They
used digital samplers before any Fairlights were built, and Chris built a
lot of other electronic equipment to form the very special sound of TG.
Most of the songs were made directly, unrehearsed on stage and was rarely
remixed when the records were made. Even the studio material is mostly
'live'.
The music range from ambient synth, to really harsh guitar-bashing, to
'nice' pop tunes, but they all have the pure energy of enthusiasm and
experimentation.
The last recordings are dated 1981, and that's when TG ceased to exist as a
group.

Genesis has been involved in the group 'Psychic TV' ever since the break-up
of TG. He now lives in the U.S.A, since he got exiled from Great Britain.

Chris has made music in his own name, 'Cris Carter', but also together with
Cosey as 'Cris & Cosey' and 'CTI'.

Peter was a part of 'Psychic TV' in the beginning, but is now involved in
the band 'Coil'.

Cosey has made a few records on her own, as 'Cosey Fanni Tutti', but also
together with Chris in 'Chris & Cosey' and 'CTI'.

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>From: "furtherfield" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "furtherfield" <[email protected]>
>To: "Ivan Pope" <[email protected]>, "Terrence Kosick"
><[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: grassroots
>Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:15:28 +0100
>
>Hi Ivan,
>
>Oh yes, Leather Nun. I prefer their 12 inch b side fist…..r! A classic
>deviant dance romp.
>
>marc
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > Good to hear from you (or see your text).
> > > Those ol' throbber kittens. My most favorite song of theirs is…
> > >
> > > Something came over me…but I don't know what it was :-)
> > >
> > Oh yes, oh yes Third and Final Annual Report, I spent a year or so
>crashing
> > out to that, it induced such spooked dreams. Later I became a great fan
>of
> > The Leather Nun, as sort of Swedish Throbbing Gristle tribute band :). I
> > used their '48 hours to live' in my foundation graduation show on an
>endless
> > loop. 'Sitting resting in a chair, getting a sun tan, 48 hours to live'.
> > Drove everyone scatty. Lovely. Oh, memories. Cheers, Ivan
> >
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