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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

P-Orridge left it in 1991.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

William S. Burroughs taught the cut-up technique to musician Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for " altering reality ".

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

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 also credited 1960s rock such as The Doors, Pearls Before Swine, The Fugs, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa in a 1979 interview.

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

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

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

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

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