Growing out of the extreme performance art group COUM Transmissions, TG redefined music and laid a large part of the groundwork for all electronic music that followed.From their first performances in 1976 to their last gig in San Francisco in 1981 (recorded and released as Mission Of Dead Souls), they challenged and threatend so-called normal, society - denounced from the floor of the House of Commons as Wreckers of Civilisation as the Coum Transmissions Prostitution art show in Londons ICA (at which TG played their third show) came close to causing riots and set the stage for the punk revolution.
![]() After they split, Genesis and Peter formed Psychic TV (and Peter later joining Coil ) and Chris and Cosey becoming, well, Chris Cosey. However, they came back together 23 years later in 2004 to plan an ill-fated weekend festival, which became a one-off recording session in London when the festival fell through, releasing a limited TGNOW album of the recordings. 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle Rar Trial Records LtdA SinclairBrooks Production and 1979 Industrial Records Ltd. Industrial Records, first 2000 included a black and white poster, with photograph of TG outside KFJC Radio Station in San Jose, California (September 1979). The cover was designed to look like a cheesy nice LP of the type sold in bargain bins in shops from this period. Therefore buyers may buy it thinking it was easy listening and then be shocked when they heard it Of course, the photos were at Beachy Head a famous suicide spot. However, if you search in the music press from the time, you will find that the Range Rover had nothing to do with the band. It was actually owned by a couple who had committed suicide off the cliff in the background. Hence the picture of the Range Rover on its own on the cover back. The more mundane explanation that Ive heard over the years is that they just rented the car for the photoshoot. Gen and Sleazy can even be seen sitting in the back of it in the booklet for the 2xCD reissue, which at the very least debunks the claim that it was nothing to do with the band. The fake numberplate they put on it (CFT 23 TG) is a nice touch. Edit: Drew Daniels 33 13 book on 20JFG confirms that it was rented (at considerable expense, actually) and they drove it to Beachy Head to use as part of the photoshoot. There may also be a reference to it in Wreckers Of Civilisation (Simon Ford) but cant find my copy right now. I just find it mildly amusing, and very TG, that someones taken an old (and now demonstrably false) music press story at face value and added it to Discogs.:). The record is etched 0004, what you hear is the third and final report.
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