Genesis P-Orridge: Classic Or Dud?

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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