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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

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

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.

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.

* Thee Psychick Bible is a culmination of all past copies of TOPY literature, as well as containing updates and personal additions by Genesis P-Orridge

" 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.

Paula P-Orridge ( born 23 February 1963, Westminster, London ), also known as Alaura O ' Dell, is an English musician.

P-Orridge also founded Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, a quasi-religious organization that produced video art.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

A retrospective of COUM Transmissions ( Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti who subsequently formed Throbbing Gristle ) entitled Prostitution features sanitary towels and explicit photographs.

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.

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

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

Disinformation: The Interviews ( 2002 ) features unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series such as Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Coleman, Paul Laffoley, Grant Morrison, Duncan Laurie, Peter Russell, Kembra Pfahler, Genesis P-Orridge and Howard Bloom.

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.

Since Genesis P-Orridge primarily wrote the lyrics instead of the music, he would assemble different groups of musicians together to create the music.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.