Genesis P-Orridge: Classic Or Dud?

Tom D, you once said on ILX, somewhere, that Gen was a kind of holy fool, which seemed very otm, so I think you should go and report back.

It's only feckin' sold out, innit? Gawblimey.

Wondering about this in the wake of reading about him from Cosey Fanni tutti's perspective in Art Sex Music. He doesn't seem like a very nice person.
So I'm wondering what the attraction to him is.

Sounds from that book as though he had the least creative input into TG and definitely the reunion. & wanted to take most of the acclaim.
Looks like he was personally poison to Cosey.
But that's one persdon's opinion. Contextualised by her it does sound coherent though and he doesn't.

I read it too and it's a hatchet job, for sure. His charisma doesn't seem to be in any doubt though. I don't agree at all about him having the least creative input into TG, but certainly he seemed to be only along for the ride when they reunited.

I went in on P-Orridge pretty hard when Throbbing Gristle's catalog was reissued six years ago. But like I say in that review, in the context of 1978 England he probably seemed super-shocking and pathbreaking.

Saw Psychic TV once, opening for Pigface. They were in their bad-hippie-techno-plus-tribal-bullshit phase; Bachir Attar of the Master Musicians of Jajouka joined them onstage, tootling on a very high-pitched and annoying reed instrument while the rest of them oozed out boring dance sludge.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

— The Vuvuzela (@livevuvuzela) June 15, 2010

(xp) "That’s why over there, William Bennett of noise act Whitehouse could seem like a provocateur, while from here he seems like a pathetic try-hard."

... that's what he seemed like over here too.

Fair enough; I only ever heard about him via The Wire and Music From the Empty Quarter, both of which (at least for a while) seemed to take him very seriously.

I blame that David Keenan.

Who are the American winners of the sexual art arms race? Peter Sotos?

I always knew that Bennett was a true provocateur, not a try-hard, long before Keenan came on the scene.

xps

Fuck this

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