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

His explanation was that everything is recorded, and if it is recorded, then it can be edited ( P-Orridge, 2003 ).

COUM was composed of P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

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.

P-Orridge and Larry Thrasher of Psychic TV jammed with Skinny Puppy during this period, a recording of which was eventually released as Puppy Gristle in a limited edition in 2002.

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.

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 ).

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.

It was at this point that P-Orridge became interested in acid house and techno.

Studio time was booked and Genesis P-Orridge, Fred Giannelli and Matthew Best went in to Brilliant Studios in San Francisco to record demos.

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.

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

In January 2006, the new PTV album was announced by P-Orridge on his website.

The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet ( né David Michael Bunting, renamed ' Tibet ' by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group ).

The founder of COUM Transmissions was Neil Andrew Megson ( 1950 –), a Mancunian by birth who later became known as Genesis P-Orridge.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

However, the petition had contained their phallic logo, and the police charged P-Orridge and fellow COUM member Haydn Nobb of publishing an obscene advert, although the charges were later dropped.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

On 4 November 2009, Genesis P-Orridge announced via his website, " Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is retiring from touring in any and all bands including TG to concentrate on art, writing and music.

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.

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.

In the House of Commons, Scottish Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn demanded an explanation from Arts Minister Harold Lever and proclaimed P-Orridge and Tutti as " wreckers of civilisation ".

* Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976-Media frenzy, Prostitution-style / Excerpts from John A. Walker's Art and Outrage about the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ( 1976 ).

In 1984, Petros ( with Adam Parfrey ) created EXIT, () a New York-based journal featuring contributions from Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, J. G. Thirlwell ( Foetus ), Genesis P-Orridge, H. R. Giger, Michael Andros, Boyd Rice, Robert R. Votta, Mark David Chapman, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Marilyn Manson, Richard Ramirez, Michael Moynihan, James Mason, and Sal Canzonieri-writer / artist / editor.

Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle had a cassette library including recordings by the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kraftwerk, Charles Manson, and William S. Burroughs.

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.

There have been numerous members and collaborators alongside Andrew M. McKenzie, including Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Chris Watson, the ( semi ) fictitious Dr. Edward Moolenbeek, Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, Adi Newton of Clock DVA, Z ' EV, Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder, David Tibet ( of Current 93 ), Genesis P-Orridge, Annie Sprinkle, Jónsi Birgisson ( of Sigur Rós ), Michael Gira ( of Swans and Angels of Light ), Chloe Vevrier, Erla Þórarinsdóttir, Blixa Bargeld, Netochka Nezvanova, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, John Lacey of COUM Transmissions, and Autechre among many others.

* UBU. com, Genesis P-Orridge on the origins of Throbbing Gristle: interview by Tony Oursler on UbuWeb

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.

P-Orridge and Mo Edley performed a DJ set and were interviewed on New York's station WNYU on 5 September 2006.

TOPY continued to grow and evolve throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century while Genesis P-Orridge moved on to other projects such as The Process, as well as a similar project to TOPY called Topi.

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.

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.

Founded in Hull, Yorkshire by Genesis P-Orridge, other prominent members included Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter " Sleazy " Christopherson and Chris Carter, who together went on to found the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle in 1976.

This caught the attention of the Yorkshire Post, who featured an article on P-Orridge and COUM Transmissions on 11 February.

Toward the end of COUM, performances would often consist of only P-Orridge, Cosey and Sleazy, the core group who went on to form 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.