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Genesis P-Orridge

August 2020

  • Throbbing Gristle performing in 2009.

    20 iconic festival sets
    Throbbing Gristle, ATP 2004: a gateway to a strange other England

    An encounter with the British industrialists opened not only a world of music and underground culture but a whole new way of living

March 2020

  • Genesis P-Orridge in New York in 2007.

    Letter: Genesis P-Orridge obituary

    Sandy Nairne writes: In the spring of 1973 I was a student organiser of the Mayfly festival planned for 1 May in Oxford
  • Genesis P-Orridge in New York.

    Genesis P-Orridge obituary

    Musician, writer and performance artist who was a co-founder of the band Throbbing Gristle
  • Alexis Petridis

    Genesis P-Orridge: troubling catalyst who loathed rock yet changed it for ever

    Alexis Petridis
    With Throbbing Gristle, P-Orridge inadvertently helped invent an entire genre – industrial music

December 2018

  • A new kind of human relationship ... Genesis P-Orridge.

    The music essay
    Genesis P-Orridge: fantastic transgressor or sadistic aggressor?

    The Throbbing Gristle provocateur is being hymned as she nears the end of her life. But accusations of abuse, all denied, complicate her legacy

March 2017

  • Cosey Fanni Tutti 2017

    Cosey Fanni Tutti: 'I don’t like acceptance. It makes me think I've done something wrong'

    As a member of COUM and Throbbing Gristle, Cosey Fanni Tutti made art that was so shocking, the police ran them out of Hull. But now they’re being invited back – and celebrated in galleries. Here she talks about how they survived

February 2017

  • The Blade, by Nayan Kulkarni, on display in Victoria Square, Hull.

    'Wreckers of civilisation': Hull embraces its frenzied sexual past

    Our critic hits the city of culture to find its best visual art – from a giant blade pointing to Primark to type-your-own street signs and a band of sexual outlaws

September 2016

  • People taking part in an installation titled Sea of Hull by artist Spencer Tunick in Hull

    The Guardian view on Hull, city of culture: arts for all?

    Editorial: Hull has announced a glittering programme for 2017. Its success will rest not on the glamour of big arts events, but on how it enriches its citizens’ lives

July 2016

  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

    This much I know
    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: 'Pleasure is a weapon'

  • Genesis P Orridge in her exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh.genesis_p_orridge_ PDIBDIN-2.jpg

    Could it be magick? The occult returns to the art world

August 2015

  • Genesis P-Orridge

    Genesis P-Orridge: Caitlyn Jenner should 'stop being a spokesperson'

    The former Throbbing Gristle member spoke to Against Me! lead singer Laura Jane Grace about Jenner’s position in the transgender movement

April 2015

  • Singer Rose Mcdowall From Pop Group Strawberry Switchblade.

    Cult heroes
    Cult heroes: Strawberry Switchblade – the clue was in the name

    The duo of Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson projected an image that was deceptively bright, all pretty bows and polka-dots, but their minds were dark

October 2014

  • Genesis P-Orridge (Neil Megson) of Throbbing Gristle, late 1970s.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 18 October 1976: Controversial art plunges in to the rusty hilt at the ICA

    Originally published in the Guardian on 18 October 1976: Genesis P-Orridge’s art collective Coum Transmissions causes uproar with its performance and exhibition Prostitution

March 2012

  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

    Music blog
    Jeffrey Lewis: My NYC poetry reading with Thurston Moore, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Jonas Mekas

    Jeffrey Lewis: Somehow I found myself reading poems with some of my avant garde heroes. But was the Sonic Youth man really praising my back catalogue onstage? Does growing older reduce your relevance as an artist? And would I ever get my tax return done?

November 2010

  • Strike a pose ... Genesis P-Orridge has refused to continue performing with Throbbing Gristle.

    Throbbing Gristle 'cease to exist' after Genesis P-Orridge quits tour

    Frontman tells bandmates he has returned to his home in New York, although remaining three will continue as new outfit X-TG

July 2008

  • Butthole Surfers comeback gig ends in chaos

    Frontman Gibby Haynes is escorted offstage by security guards after attacking a soundman – leaving Genesis P-Orridge to subdue the angry crowd

May 2007

  • Throbbing Gristle, Part Two: the Endless Not

    Genesis P-Orridge and co return - with one noticeable difference.

November 2003

  • Eyes wide shut

    He was the Leonardo of the 20th century, whose surreal work could change the way people thought. Genesis P Orridge on Brion Gysin

April 1999

  • The artful dodger

    Back in the Seventies, Genesis P-Orridge was branded the devil incarnate for his bizarre, some said perverted, approach to art and music. Today, as he approaches 50, he tells Dominic Murphy that he was just deeply misunderstood. Portrait by David Barry
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