Has anybody read this new book about COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle?

oh, i guess it's not old.
i just saw it at the bookshop today for the first time, and they had it out onna table so i figgered...

oh, i guess it's not old.new.

i am a idiot

cosey <3 <3 <3

it's pretty good, esp. for descriptions of the COUM performances and interband drama.

maybe the library has it.

does the book have more pics like that of cosey?

are there boots of the COUM stuff available at all?

xpost on the book

It's awesome, very recommended, the early life histories about each band member before Coum even coalesces are really interesting, and the scope of the thing is really what makes it work.

Now if only someone would write a booklength study of a classic TG album . . .

Buy this book with Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) by Geeta Dayal today!

COUM was less musical than straight(?) performance art.

isn't her book not done?

you're her IM pal, why don't you ask her?

also, what bout COUM video boots?

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AWSM BOOK, SD OTM RE: COUM STUFF.

I work with this awesome dude who used to be on nodding terms with Gen when they were still doing performances in Hull. Some of the places they performed are unlikely, to say the least.

http://myspace.com/daisrecords

DR001 - Early Worm - LP
RELEASE DATE: Winter 2007/2008
Recorded in a roofspace attic during the summer of 1968 by Genesis P-Orridge and friends, and later pressed to a SINGLE vinyl record in 1969, this recording is probably the most documented (yet never heard) missing piece of musical history in the legacy of Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. We are proud to announce this as our first release, remastered and preserved in a limited vinyl pressing, with liner notes written by Genesis he/r-self.

it's a pretty good book, ian.

daaaaaaamn

http://www.cosey-fanni-tutti.com

yeah good book, buy

$30 is like 50p or something isn't it?

'RECTUM AS INNER SPACE' (16mm, colour). Film by Coum.

only place i ever see this is the MOCA/MOMA/LACMA bookstore

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i rather doubt that chris burden did that

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2568425363/

ahhahahah wau

!!!!!!!!!!

that is awesome

hamburger man

he takes some nice pics

his current TG set-up is 80% KAOS pads???

ableton + kaos pads

and the lame little kaos pads sans midi sync! I think they might use the gristleizer too: http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/gristleizer/

this is ok as a potted history, but the "and then this happened. and then this happened. and then this happened" structure plus university level dissertation analysis grated after a while. there was little character examination other than of gen, for example, chris carter's supposed on-stage self-mutilation during the early performances is barely hinted at, something that is interesting to me at least considering he appeared so reserved and so removed from the coum side of tg. was generally way too biased towards gen's point of view, even though the author makes it clear how unreliable his perspective was, and how often the other member's of the band disagreed with it. would've liked more anecdotes about beck road and the death factory, especially about monte cazazza. the story about them forcing their gypsy neighbours out was pretty funny. it was a cool book i 'spose as it made me want to listen to everything ever released by tg.

you know the noize board is over when people can't even be bothered to post to tg threads

time to make this the I Love Fitness board

dude, we talked about this years ago. anyway, still haven't read the book, want it badly, but not letting myself buy it until i finish drew's book. which is, most appropriately, my toilet reading. but i'm finding drew's really slow going.

i have a problem with density of ideas. like the other night i read one chapter of a book i got on sun ra, and there was one paragraph where he explained that he called it the ARKestra not just because of the reference to the biblical ark but also out of homage to birmingham, alabama, where southerners just pronounce "orchestra" as "aaaark estra", and that he'd gotten the idea after suggesting that chicago's birdland club - which was being sued by new york's birdland - just change their name to "budland", since it would be pronounced the same by chicago's blacks as "birdland".

and i had to put the book down and go ponder that paragraph for about two days. i swear, my brain is tiny and/or easily boggled by ideas.

My copy of this got severely nibbled (along with numerous albums) by my sister's rabbit (now deceased - rabbit not sister)

i've got a little tin
to put my dead bunny in

I noticed the other day that this is still in my amazon wishlist and it's out of print again

god damn, this thing is like $200 on Amazon. Anybody got a spare copy they wanna sell me?

wish i had one too. is that 'englands hidden reverse' book any good

yes, but also overpriced. can send u a pdf of that if u webmail me.

will do, thx!

England's Hidden Reverse has been updated a bit and is getting reissued soon.

damn it, I was hoping this was bumped due to a reprint

Seeing COUM's after cease to exist along with other films of the era in a few mins, + Chris & cosey Q&A. Psyched

Uh, what? Where??!?

Film festival here, there's a whole strand on "industrial music & culture". It was really good, Chris & Cosey couldn't make it tho so they showed an extra film instead (imagining October by jarman)

reissue?!?!?

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ty, will keep my eyes peeled

just set a new world record for reading post -> clicking buy on amazon

"These people are the wreckers of civilisation" - Nicholas Fairbairn

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wowwowowow yay!

over the last few days have been making my way through the bfi collection of bruce lacey films and ephemera and was really struck by a video piece from the early eighties (breaking away to come together) with a lacey soundtrack employing primitive synths and treated voices that immediately brought to mind tg & was left wondering if he might have had any connection with them at some point... so, after a little checking discovered one of his sons was actually involved with coum transmissions (apparently instrumental in introducing chris carter to the others) and lacey himself was caretaker of the art space that would later become the death factory. dunno if any of this is mentioned in wreckers of civilisation, but i find this kind of thing fascinating!

that is indeed fascinating, good catch. I'm really excited that this book has apparently been repressed.