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Throbbing Gristle

February 2023

  • Stevo, pictured here in 1990.

    Stevo of Some Bizzare Records: ‘The delay in any kind of recognition is outrageous’

    He’s been stabbed, headbutted and locked in bitter rows, but his label made bands such as Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire into stars. In the wake of a new biography, Stevo tells his own story

August 2022

  • Cosey Fanni Tutti, photographed in King's Lynn, July 2022.

    Cosey Fanni Tutti: ‘I was lucky I got thrown out of home. I see it as a gift’

    The Throbbing Gristle co-founder and performance artist is seen as an elder stateswoman of the avant garde. She talks about legacy, and the liberation of revisiting her darkest experiences for a new memoir

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.

    Genesis P-Orridge obituary

  • Alexis Petridis

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

    Alexis Petridis

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

June 2018

  • Chet Baker performs in 1974

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about being lost

    A reader finds a way through your suggestions, meeting Chet Baker, the Clash and Eric Clapton along the way

September 2017

  • Suzanne Moore

    Kathy Acker showed it takes blood, guts and smarts to be a female artist

    Suzanne Moore
    I always admired the US writer for her mythology as an outlaw and sexual adventurer. Chris Kraus’s biography reminds us how hard the avant garde has been for women

March 2017

  • ‘I didn’t have a lot in common with the other mothers’ … Cosey Fanni Tutti.

    Book of the day
    Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti review – elder stateswoman of the avant garde

    A performance artist and member of the band Throbbing Gristle, Tutti has spent decades breaking down barriers. This is a fascinating, unfussy memoir
  • COUM outside Ferens Art Gallery, 1971: (from left) Sarah, Cosey, Foxtrot Echo, Biggles and Fizzy Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti published by Faber Social

    'I smeared Gen in flour paste and whipped him hard': an extract from Cosey Fanni Tutti's book

    The art provocateur recalls life in an art commune in Hull, fighting the Hells Angels and thrashing Genesis P Orridge on stage in Amsterdam
  • 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

January 2017

  • Soul pianist Sampha

    The ten best things to do this week
    Sampha, Gold and Fortitude: top things to do in the UK this week

    From the soul pianist’s debut album to Matthew McConaughey’s new film and the return of the Arctic drama: your at-a-glance guide to the best in culture

July 2016

  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

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

    The musician and artist, 66, on Wiliam Burroughs, Caitlyn Jenner, Donald Trump and his dead wife Lady Jaye, with whom he shares a body

September 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Why Carter Tutti Void's F (x) is the one album you should hear this week-video

    What you should hear this week
    Why Carter Tutti Void's F (x) is the one album you should hear this week – video review

    F (x), the second album by Carter Tutti Void is music for dark nights, says Alexis Petridis


March 2013

  • British musician Lustmord aka Brian Williams

    Lustmord: ambient's dark star

    Alex Needham: He's fascinated by the atom bomb and once played a gig for Satan. Is Australia ready for Lustmord?

November 2012

  • Tutti, Christopherson and Carter, formerly of Throbbing Gristle

    Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Cosey Fanni Tutti: Desertshore/The Final Report – review

    Throbbing Gristle's magic and menace is reignited brilliantly on this strange tribute to their late bandmate, writes Alexis Petridis

October 2012

  • Sasha Grey

    Sasha Grey: Music is just like the porn industry

    Sasha Grey has starred in 270 adult films. Now she is fronting the experimental electronic band aTelecine. But, she tells Ben Beaumont-Thomas, these two worlds are not so different after all

November 2011

  • Throbbing Gristle

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Throbbing Gristle, Dancehall

    This week Gabriel from the Heatwave takes us through what's hot in Dancehall right now and Alexis speaks to one of his all time favourite bands - industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. Plus reviews of tracks by Russo, P Money and Vacationer

November 2010

  • Throbbing Gristle

    Music blog
    Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson: 1955-2010

  • 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

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