| rdfs:comment | - Throbbing Gristle were an English jazz funk band known for their tuneful melodies, soulful lyrics and rigid time feel. Remembered as one of the most virtuosic and technically proficient bands to ever come out of the United Kingdom their legacy has had lasting impact on most jazz groups of the late 20th century.
- Peel played tracks from the artists in the 1970's and '80's, including their previous group COUM Transmissions. On his 12 December 1979 show, Peel recalled meeting the bandleader in an earlier era: "That Genesis P. Orridge, always a man well ahead of his time, in fact. I remember him gobbing on me back in 1968." Genesis P-Orridge, in an interview with Nardwuar on YouTube, also described how he spat on Peel when he first met him, although his date of recollection was the early '70's:
- Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. Established in 1975, the band is widely viewed, along with contemporaries Cabaret Voltaire, as having created the industrial music genre.[4] The band consisted of Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Megson; bass guitar, violin, vocals, vibraphone), Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Newby; guitars, cornet, vocals), Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (tapes, found sounds, horns, piano, vibraphone, synthesizer) and Chris Carter (synthesizers, tapes, electronics).
- Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975 in London) are a British experimental music and Industrial Music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The founding members of Throbbing Gristle were Chris Carter, Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Christopherson (sometimes known as Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson). The band have just finished recording their first studio album in almost 25 years. Titled Part Two, it is set to be released by Mute on March 20th 2006. The group's name is British (Hull) slang for an erect penis.
- Widely recognized as the Ur Example of the genre, Throbbing Gristle was an avant-garde Industrial band from England, originally active from 1975 to 1981. They reunited in 2004, only to disband again in 2010 after the death of Peter Christopherson. Though they are oft overlooked these days, the group was notorious in the 70s for their transgressive, gruesome live shows and extremely dark lyrical content, which covered (among other things) serial killers, cynical political/social commentary, and feelings of angry helplessness that followed the 1960s; this effectively set the tone for future industrial bands, whose subject matter rarely strayed far from these themes. They also founded Industrial Records, the label which gave the Industrial genre its name, and published many of its earlier exp
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| abstract | - Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. Established in 1975, the band is widely viewed, along with contemporaries Cabaret Voltaire, as having created the industrial music genre.[4] The band consisted of Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Megson; bass guitar, violin, vocals, vibraphone), Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Newby; guitars, cornet, vocals), Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (tapes, found sounds, horns, piano, vibraphone, synthesizer) and Chris Carter (synthesizers, tapes, electronics). The group disbanded in 1981, but the individual members went on to participate in other projects, and reformed in 2004 for a second stint before disbanding again in 2010 after the death of Peter Christopherson.
- Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975 in London) are a British experimental music and Industrial Music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The founding members of Throbbing Gristle were Chris Carter, Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Christopherson (sometimes known as Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson). Their confrontational live performances and use of often disturbing imagery, including pornography and photographs of Nazi concentration camps, gave the group a notorious reputation. However the group always maintained that their mission was to challenge and explore the darker and obsessive sides of the human condition rather than to make attractive music. Throbbing Gristle pioneered the use of pre-recorded samples, and made extensive use of special effects to produce a distinctive, highly distorted background, usually accompanied by lyrics or spoken-word performances by Genesis P-Orridge. In 1977 they released their debut recording, 2nd Annual Report. Although pressed in a limited initial run of 786 copies on the band's own Industrial Records label, it was later re-released due to high demand. Throbbing Gristle broke up in 1981, with founders Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson going on to form Psychic TV, whilst Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter continued to record together under the name of Chris and Cosey. Christopherson later went on to become half of the band Coil with fellow Psychic TV member John Balance. Throbbing Gristle was noted for its live performances, which were often experimental and quite different from their pre-recorded work. In addition to studio albums, a large number of recordings of live shows were released, of varying sound quality. A concise history of Throbbing Gristle and Coum Transmissions can be found in Simon Ford's book Wreckers of Civlisation (ISBN 1901033600). A 24 CD boxed set, TG24, documenting many live Throbbing Gristle performances was released in December 2002. A follow-up to this boxset chronicling the last 10 performances was released as TG+ in January of 2004. These releases accumulated recordings that had originally been released on cassette-only boxed sets and individually released vinyl albums of official and bootleg status. Long out of circulation, the new releases sparked a renewed interest in the band. Throbbing Gristle was scheduled to play a live show in May 2004 at the RE~TG festival, but the festival was cancelled due to rising costs and scheduling complications. They decided to play anyway and set up a show at The Astoria in London on Sunday May 16th 2004, which was the same day they were to play at RE~TG. The show was free but open only to those who had tickets to RE~TG, whether they had gotten a refund or transferred the ticket to Throbbing Gristle's final reunion show at All Tomorrow's Parties, in April 2005. The show was filmed by the band, and is supposed to come out as a DVD in 2006. It was Throbbing Gristle's first live performance in nearly twenty-three years to day. The band have just finished recording their first studio album in almost 25 years. Titled Part Two, it is set to be released by Mute on March 20th 2006. The group's name is British (Hull) slang for an erect penis.
- Throbbing Gristle were an English jazz funk band known for their tuneful melodies, soulful lyrics and rigid time feel. Remembered as one of the most virtuosic and technically proficient bands to ever come out of the United Kingdom their legacy has had lasting impact on most jazz groups of the late 20th century.
- Widely recognized as the Ur Example of the genre, Throbbing Gristle was an avant-garde Industrial band from England, originally active from 1975 to 1981. They reunited in 2004, only to disband again in 2010 after the death of Peter Christopherson. Though they are oft overlooked these days, the group was notorious in the 70s for their transgressive, gruesome live shows and extremely dark lyrical content, which covered (among other things) serial killers, cynical political/social commentary, and feelings of angry helplessness that followed the 1960s; this effectively set the tone for future industrial bands, whose subject matter rarely strayed far from these themes. They also founded Industrial Records, the label which gave the Industrial genre its name, and published many of its earlier exponents. Band members included:
* Genesis P-Orridge (bass, violin, vocals, vibraphone)
* Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitars, cornet, vocals)
* Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (tapes, found sounds, horns, vibraphone, synthesizer; also a member of the Hipgnosis studio; also also one half of the duo Coil)
* Chris Carter (synthesizers, tapes, electronics)
- Peel played tracks from the artists in the 1970's and '80's, including their previous group COUM Transmissions. On his 12 December 1979 show, Peel recalled meeting the bandleader in an earlier era: "That Genesis P. Orridge, always a man well ahead of his time, in fact. I remember him gobbing on me back in 1968." Genesis P-Orridge, in an interview with Nardwuar on YouTube, also described how he spat on Peel when he first met him, although his date of recollection was the early '70's: "Yes, we did that, he wrote about that, yes the first time we met him, yeah that was long before punk too, that was '72'- '71' John Peel came into Hull in Yorkshire where we were at the time and we thought how do we get him to talk to us without just saying we like what you do, so we went up to him and said we like what you do, we spat on him, and said don't worry that's the way we show our love. So he nicknamed us as Goz Rock, because Goz means spit in England." [1] Peel admitted on his 10 December 1983 (BFBS) show that he wasn't a big fan of the group's material except for the 20 Jazz Funk Greats album, from which he played a track for a listener.
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