In 1992 Kim Cascone ( founder of Silent Records ) introduced P-Orridge to Larry Thrasher, co-founder of the mid 80's San Francisco experimental noise band Thessalonians.

In 1998 P-Orridge announced that he primarily wanted to move into spoken word, which is when Campagna left the band to pursue his own projects, and turned to focus on Thee Majesty with musical lineup of Larry Thrasher and Bryin Dall.

This eventually led P-Orridge and Thrasher to the create several offshoot groups Splinter Test and later Thee Majesty, which focused on the spoken word and sonic experiments.

Other notable releases upon which P-Orridge collaborated with Thrasher were the Electric Newspapers, a series of open source sample releases that blurred the sampling CD concept with a stream of consciousness listening experience.

Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and poet mystic Z ' EV, both pioneers of industrial music, cited Van Vliet along with Zappa among their influences.

Following the breakup of Throbbing Gristle, P-Orridge and Christopherson founded Psychic TV and signed to a major label.

The latter went on to form the short-lived Cash Pussies and, a few years later, Psychic TV along with Genesis P-Orridge.

Psychic TV was formed with the core membership of Genesis P-Orridge and Alex Fergusson in 1981.

Alexander Fergusson was a member of the punk outfit Alternative TV, upon whose 1978 album Vibing Up The Senile Man ( Part One ) P-Orridge had played percussion, and contributed the latter half of the name Psychic TV.

P-Orridge once claimed that " Psychic TV is a video group who does music unlike a music group which makes music videos ".

In 2005, the Voiceprint record label in England re-released several older Psychic TV and Genesis P-Orridge albums under the name Thee Majesty, and also a new album recorded with the band Cotton Ferox.

In the early 1990s a " rift " occurred within the network when Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, one of the few founding members still involved at that time, and probably the most famous public face of TOPY during the 1980s, announced his departure from the organization.

Sveinbjörn can be heard performing Ásatrú marriage rites for Genesis and Paula P-Orridge ( now Alaura O ' Dell ) on Psychic TV's LP Live in Reykjavik and on the double LP entitled Those who do not.

* Genesis P-Orridge ( Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle )

Following the disbanding of Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson went on to form Psychic TV, while Cosey and Chris Carter continued to record together under the moniker Chris and Cosey.

Trip Reset is a 1996 album credited to Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV featuring The Angels of Light.

The current conceptions of a " Pagan rock " genre lay with two musical strands: first with the idea of a modern music created by and for Neopagans as typified by the artist Gwydion Pendderwen, and secondly with the occult themes pursued by early industrial music pioneers Genesis P-Orridge ( Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV ) and John Balance ( Coil, Current 93 ).

Unlike the previous dabbling with occult and romantic pre-Christian themes pursued by rock bands in the 1960s and early 1970s ( as typified by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Donovan ), these new artists were earnest subscribers to Neopagan religion ( in the case of Pendderwen ), and ritual magick ( in the case of P-Orridge and Balance Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth ).

The singer-songwriter, performance artist and occultist Genesis P-Orridge – front vocalist for Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV – was born in Victoria Park on 22 February 1950, although soon moved to Essex where his father had gained a new job.

The band was formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and video director Peter Christopherson ( after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle ) with Alex Fergusson, musician and producer ( a key member of Alternative TV for whom P-Orridge had played percussion ).

" The group ended in 1981, with P-Orridge declaring " the mission is terminated.

Industrial Records intended the term industrial to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation, with previous music being more agricultural: P-Orridge stated that " there's an irony in the word ' industrial ' because there's the music industry.

During the Process era, a loose-knit art / philosophy collective also known as The Process was formed, with early contributions from Ogre and Genesis P-Orridge, among others.

Early rehearsals took place at Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records studio with Genesis P-Orridge on drums ; recordings from this period appeared, long afterwards, on the Industrial Sessions CD.

Cazazza was also photographed alongside COUM Transmissions / Throbbing Gristle members Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti for the " Gary Gilmore Memorial Society " postcard, in which the three artists posed blindfolded and tied to chairs with actual loaded guns pointed at them to depict Gilmore's execution.

This fire, which burned down the mansion, left P-Orridge in the intensive care unit at Cedar Sinai hospital with life-threatening injuries after he ( along with members of the band Love and Rockets ) jumped from their bedroom windows to escape the flames.

P-Orridge won the case, but was left with a metal plate and eight screws in his permanently disabled and reconstructed arm.

2005 saw the band return to the studio, recording their first album in over 10 years ( P-Orridge also spent 2005 working with Throbbing Gristle on their first album in over 25 years ).

In December, 2010, Genesis P-Orridge activated the One True Topi Tribe, a reactivation of sorts of the original Temple Ov Psychick Youth, this time with focus on creating an intentional artists community.

On 5 January 1971, Megson officially changed his name to Genesis P-Orridge by deed poll, combining his school nickname of " Genesis " with a misspelling of " porridge ", the foodstuff which he lived off as a student.

P-Orridge began to take an increasing interest in infantilism, founding a fictitious school of art, the L ' ecole de l ' art infantile, whose work culminated in a 1983 event known as the Baby's Coumpetition held at Oxford University's May Festival, which he had co-organised with Robin Klassnik and Opal L. Nations.

In July 2009, American record label Dais Records released the COUM Transmissions LP The Sound Of Porridge Bubbling in a limited edition of 500 copies, as was the case with Early Worm ( Genesis P-Orridge and friends, 1968 ) in 2008.

In 1976 she co-founded the group Throbbing Gristle with Chris Carter, Peter ' Sleazy ' Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge.

In October 2010 Throbbing Gristle began a European tour ; however, following the band's first tour date at the Hackney Dissenting Academy, London, on October 27 Throbbing Gristle's website announced that Genesis P-Orridge was no longer willing to perform with the band, and would return to his home in New York.

Results of this event sent P-Orridge on a two-year health sabbatical to recover, during which he was involved in a million dollar lawsuit against Rick Rubin, who owned the Houdini Mansion.

Genesis P-Orridge, the founder of COUM Transmissions, in Japan during the 1980s or 1990s.

Towards the end of this period Fergusson / P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album Allegory and Self: Thee Starlit Mire.

P-Orridge claimed initially that he was deported, although later admitted that he decided not to return to England from Kathmandu, where he and his family had been on holiday after selling an Austin Osman Spare painting to Chris Stein from Blondie for $ 10, 000 US dollars which financed the trip.

Shortly after moving to the US, P-Orridge underwent a divorce which traumatized him immensely.

The reason for the use of " TOPY cant ", such as the spelling of " thee " and " ov " in the network's name, derives from the writings of Genesis P-Orridge, which advocate a deconstruction of ' normal ' or consensus modes of communication in order to achieve a more integrated understanding of the Self.

" Yes COUM are fab and kinky " ( 1971 ), an example of the artwork which P-Orridge produced to advertise his artistic-musical group ; the primary image is of himself as a child.

Cazazza was also photographed alongside COUM Transmissions / Throbbing Gristle members Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti for the " Gary Gilmore Memorial Society " postcard, in which the three artists posed blindfolded and tied to chairs with actual loaded guns pointed at them to depict Gilmore's execution.