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Psychic TV
Psychic TV was first born in 50 Beck Road, Hackney in 1982 following
his termination of Throbbing Gristle in 1981. Six months later the duo
completed the nucleus of the new unit with ex-TG’er Peter
Christopherson. By that time Genesis had already conceived, named
and pioneered the genre “lndustrial Music” with Throbbing Gristle.

Along with the Velvet Underground, Throbbing Gristle is and remains
one of the most influential rock groups of the last 30 years; if you
haven’t heard their music, you will certainly have listened to someone
who has. In Throbbing Gristle, Genesis and company synthesized the
influences and philosophies of Gen’s close friends and collaborators,
including Beat writer William S. Burroughs; Beat poet and painter
Brion Gysin; psychedelic shaman Dr Timothy Leary; queer activist film
maker Derek Jarman; and those of legendary occultist Austin Osman
Spare, theorist John Cage and various seminal underground authors,
thinkers, artists and film makers. The group “TG” produced some of
the most unsettling and thoughtprovoking music of all time. Their
pioneering “Industrial” sound and self-sufficient approach to record
distribution has had a profound impact, becoming key elements of
underground music production and distribution ever since.
Right from the outset, Psychic TV in turn made highly innovative and
unflinchingly provocative music blending elements
of psychedelia and dance with Industrial sounds
(named “HYPERDELIC” by Genesis). As with TG, the details of Psychic
TV’s packaging, marketing and the radical lifestyle of the musicians
were all treated as equally crucial components of the
final aesthetic statement. For some 14 odd years, Psychic TV recorded
and released dozens of live and studio albums ending up in the
Guiness Book Of Records for releasing more albums in one year than
any other artist (even Elvis!). Psychic TV was terminated in the mid
90’s as Genesis pursued further musical goals with his spoken-word
and expanded poetry/video installation project Thee Majesty.
In 2003, artist and percussionist Edley ODowd gently but persistently
persuaded Genesis to rekindle her rock spirit and Psychic TV. Edley
succeeded and they played their first public show that December. The
reactivated ensemble led by ODowd, has been touring the world and
releasing music ever since.

The full history of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her varied seminal
musical exploits of the past three decades as well
as her soclo-cultural (or should that be politico-sexual? Or all the
above!) adventures would easily fill a book (and has …
Soft Skull/Shortwave Books published “Painful but Fabulous: The Lives
and Art of Genesis P-Orridge” in 2003 and more
recently with “Thee Psychick Bible” in hardcover in 2009
and paperback in 2010). Genesis continues to exhibit artwork
around the globe (Most recently at Art Basel, Miami, The Serpentine
Gallery, London and a career retrospective at The Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh).Already living a creative further chapter of her “life” book Genesis
continues to provoke and explore in her very public
private life; from replacing all her healthy teeth with solid gold
permanent replicas in an homage to Pierre Clemente in
Luis Bunuel’s “Belle De Jour.” Littering the dictionary and culture with
new words for new, original ideas Genesis can
be said to follow the serious process and joy-filled strategy of “When
there is no example imagine it, when there is no
word for it invent one.”
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