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.

P-Orridge's musical career began in 1979 when she met musician and artist, Genesis P-Orridge, while working at a Tesco supermarket in Hackney, East London.

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.

To complement her interest in new age Goddess worship, in 1996 Paula P-Orridge / Alaura O ' Dell established an independent, niche travel company, Sacred Journeys for Womyn.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

* 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 ).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.