THROBBING GRISTLE

ISSUE 119
This is something special. With the TG Berlin boxset in the shops very soon, the latest Electronic Sound cover stars Throbbing Gristle and they’re bundling the issue with a limited edition red vinyl seven-inch featuring two previously unreleased TG tracks, including one of the last two TG recordings ever made.

In this issue Electronic Sound are looking back over the story of Throbbing Gristle, interviewing the surviving members of the band and others associated with TG. Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson ripped up all the rules, both sonically and visually, both as a live act and a recording unit. TG are widely recognised as the prime movers of industrial music, but their influence and impact stretches way beyond any particular genre. TG’s early gigs attracted everybody from acid-fried hippies and spotty anarcho-punks to oddball alt-funkateers and hot-wired electronics freaks. There has never been another group even remotely like Throbbing Gristle.

NEW RELEASE
THROBBING GRISTLE

‘TG BERLIN’ BOX SET

Chronicling unreleased work from Berlin, recorded around a series of live events at the Volksbühne.
Box set features the final Throbbing Gristle single (double a-side on 10” vinyl), a new 48-minute studio piece, unreleased live and rehearsal material, Blu-ray of full live performance, booklet of unseen photographs, newly written sleeve notes and more.

Listen To Previously Unreleased TG Track:
‘SCABS & SAWS’

Available 6th Dec 2024
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KÁRYYN - the REAL
(Cosey Fanni Tutti Remix)

RE:SISTERS
Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation with Caroline Catz

Faber & Faber are hosting a special evening with Cosey Fanni Tutti, who will be in conversation with Caroline Catz, renowned actress and director of Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes, for which Cosey wrote the original score.

‘FABER MEMBERS’
7pm on 24th June at The Bindery, London

SOLD OUT!

RE:SISTERS
Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation with Caroline Catz

Faber & Faber are hosting a special evening with Cosey Fanni Tutti, who will be in conversation with Caroline Catz, renowned actress and director of Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes, for which Cosey wrote the original score.

‘FABER MEMBERS’
7pm on 24th June at The Bindery, London

SOLD OUT!

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES COSEY'S 'IN CONVERSATION' WITH MAXINE PEAKE AT THE 2024 SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

WATCH THIS… IT’S VERY FUNNY!

I DIE:YOU DIE - PODCAST

We Have A Commentary: Chris And Cosey, ‘Heartbeat’
Coming hot on the heels of the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle, Chris And Cosey’s debut LP Heartbeat doesn’t just function as a bridge between their work as experimental enfants terrible and the dreamier, trance-like synthesis their work as a duo would explore, but also between major eras in experimental music. In this month’s commentary podcast we’re examining how the record links the origins of industrial noise to the emerging eras of synthpop and post-industrial music.

Let's Talk About: The Erotic Self
A talk featuring Cosey Fanni Tutti,  Jill Westwood, and a filmed contribution by Caroline Coon, chaired by Reba Maybury

19 March 2024, 19.00–20.30

The Clore Auditorium - Tate Britain
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

Join Women in Revolt! artists for a panel discussion on their pioneering work in exploring explicit self-imaging of women in contemporary art.

Featuring Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jill Westwood, along with a filmed contribution by Caroline Coon, this event takes their diverse bodies of work as the starting point to explore the role of erotic self-representation in destabilising conventional attitudes towards gender roles and sexuality. Drawing from pornographic imagery and lived experiences of the sex industry, their work offered nuanced interrogations of power dynamics, authorship, and the commodification of pleasure.

Chaired by Reba Maybury, this panel reflects on the historical resonances of artists’ work from the 1970s and 1980s, whose use of sexually explicit imagery transgressed the boundaries of acceptability within both societal and artistic contexts.

This exhibition is the first of its kind – a major survey of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It explores how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change.

Features original artworks by Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Women in Revolt Artists
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