119-410: Ende Neu is the seventh full-length studio album released by Einstürzende Neubauten in 1996. The title means "ending new"; it is a wordplay (reflected in the cover artwork) involving the band's name: Einstürz ende Neu bauten. This was the band's last studio album featuring member F.M. Einheit . "Bili Rubin" appears on the 1998 (CD) and 1996 (LP) re-releases. The entire album was re-released as
238-735: A cult band ; their audience was far larger than COUM. COUM continued to operate alongside TG, and in October 1975 they performed Jusquà la balle crystal at the Ninth Paris Biennale at the Musée d'art modern. The prestige of being invited to such an event led to the Arts Council awarding them a grant for £1,600, although only the first half of this was ever paid out. COUM's mail art had taken on an increasingly pornographic dimension, and in November 1975
357-581: A dominatrix at the dungeon, and Genesis was a visiting customer. The night they met, the two visited Paddles, an underground BDSM club in Manhattan. The two became a couple from that point forward. In January 1993, P-Orridge and Jaye moved to Ridgewood , Queens, in New York City. Here, they embarked on the "Pandrogeny Project"; influenced by the cut-up technique, the duo underwent body modification to resemble one another, thus coming to identify themselves as
476-633: A "20th anniversary tour", playing in the Columbiahalle, Berlin on its birthday, 1 April, and released the album Silence Is Sexy , followed by a world tour. 2001 also saw the release of another double best-of and rarities album, Strategies Against Architecture III . Since 2001, Einstürzende Neubauten albums and web projects have been partially produced and supported by Bargeld's wife, Erin Zhu, who also serves as webmaster of Einstürzende Neubauten 's website. In 2002, Einstürzende Neubauten began work on
595-504: A $ 1.5 million lawsuit against producer Rick Rubin and his American Recordings label for injuries sustained while trying to escape a fire at Rubin's home in April 1995. According to P-Orridge's attorney, David D. Stein, P-Orridge was staying at Rubin's home, as a guest of Love and Rockets , when the fire broke out. P-Orridge tried to escape the house by crawling through a second-storey window and fell onto concrete stairs. P-Orridge suffered
714-504: A concerted attempt to challenge societal norms and attracted the attention of the national press. COUM's 1976 Prostitution show at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts was particularly vilified by tabloids , gaining them the moniker of the "wreckers of civilisation." P-Orridge's band, Throbbing Gristle, grew out of COUM, and were active from 1975 to 1981 as pioneers in the industrial music genre. In 1981, P-Orridge co-founded Psychic TV, an experimental band that from 1988 onward came under
833-520: A derelict Georgian warehouse in Prince Street, Hull. An example performance involved the group turning up to play a gig but intentionally not bringing any instruments, something P-Orridge considered "much more theatrical, farcical and light-hearted" than their earlier performances. On 5 January 1971, P-Orridge underwent a legal name change to Genesis P-Orridge by deed poll , combining the adopted nickname Genesis with an altered spelling of porridge ,
952-656: A developmental breakthrough. Musical structure became more evident, and Bargeld's lyrics and, especially, his singing changed. He moved from shouted words and phrases toward organized, poetic melodies. The band played a show in Vancouver , Canada, to kick off its third North American tour. The performance was sponsored by the German Goethe Institute as part of the German contribution to Expo 86 . Also scheduled to appear were Test Dept and Skinny Puppy , though not everyone
1071-560: A fan community after the departure. Having been encouraged by groups involved in propagating the moral panic about alleged Satanic ritual abuse , the Channel 4 1992 documentary show Dispatches claimed to have discovered videotapes depicting P-Orridge sexually abusing children in a ritual setting. Police from the Obscene Publications Squad subsequently raided P-Orridge's home, and confiscated several tonnes of art work. At
1190-450: A forum to facilitate discussions on occult ideas by like-minded people, and from its beginnings was understood by its founders to be a successor to the late 19th and early 20th century Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), especially as the latter had been run under Crowley's leadership. Evans described TOPY as "a 'fusion' organisation, creating a crossover of punk/experimental music with chaos magical thinking and practice", making particular use of
1309-562: A group called the Knights of the Pentecostal Flame. The Knights undertook a happening on 1 June 1968 which they titled Beautiful Litter . Taking place in Mell Square, Solihull , it involved the three students handing out cards to passersby that had a series of words written onto them; "fleece", "rainbow", "silken", "white", "flower" and "dewdrops". Ensuring that the local Solihull News
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#17328772860771428-476: A group of friends, P-Orridge founded a 'free-form' student magazine entitled Worm which waived all editorial control, publishing everything placed into the magazine's pigeonhole , including instructions on how to build a molotov cocktail . Three issues were published between 1968 and 1970 before the Hull Student's Union banned the publication, considering it legally obscene and fearing prosecution. Developing
1547-495: A keen interest in poetry, P-Orridge won the 1969 Hull University Needler Poetry Competition, judged by Compton lecturer Richard Murphy and the poet Philip Larkin , who was then librarian at the university. P-Orridge became involved in radical student politics through their friendship with Tom Fawthrop, a member of the Radical Student Alliance who had led a student occupation of the university's administrative buildings as
1666-550: A local exhibition. Taking an increasing interest in infantilism , P-Orridge founded the fictitious L'ecole de l'art infantile and co-organised the "Baby's Coumpetition" [ sic ] at Oxford University 's 1973 May Festival, also producing material as the fictitious Ministry of Antisocial Insecurity, a parody of the Ministry of Social Security . Meanwhile, P-Orridge created the character of Alien Brain, and in July 1972, performed as
1785-464: A longtime member. In 1981, percussionist F.M. Einheit (from the Hamburg band Abwärts ) joined Einstürzende Neubauten and they released their first LP , Kollaps (" Collapse "), a mixture of rough punk tunes and industrial noises. The industrial noises were obtained from self-made music machines, electronics, and found objects such as metal plates. The live performances with Einheit in
1904-538: A name adopted from one of P-Orridge's essays on sampling. In 1981, P-Orridge also founded a loosely organised network of occultists named Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), with the aid of John Balance , Tibet, and a number of members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement , a group which had exerted an influence on P-Orridge's occult thought. TOPY was conceived not as an occult order of teaching, but
2023-549: A new album without the backing of a record label, relying instead upon fan ("supporter") participation in an experiment of a type of Street Performer Protocol combined with an internet community and touches of the patronage system. An exclusive Supporter Album No. 1 , and the Airplane Miniatures EP following, were made available in 2003. Bargeld left Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2003. In order to go on tour,
2142-559: A new home in Shrewsbury . Here, they volunteered as an office clerk in Ronald Megson's new business. On one family trip to Wales, P-Orridge was sitting in the back of the car, then "became disembodied and heard voices and saw the COUM symbol and heard the words ' COUM Transmissions ' ". Returning home that evening, P-Orridge filled three notebooks with artistic thoughts and ideas, influenced by
2261-596: A part of the worldwide student protests of 1968 . In 1969, P-Orridge attempted to reconstruct the occupation for a film, in the hopes that it would itself become a genuine protest occupation, but this venture failed due to a lack of participants. In 1969, P-Orridge dropped out of university and moved to London, and joined the Transmedia Explorations commune, who were then living in a large run-down house in Islington Park Street . The group, initiated by
2380-582: A police investigation. P-Orridge was subsequently cleared and Channel 4 retracted their allegation. As a result of the incident, P-Orridge left the United Kingdom for the United States and settled in New York City. There, they married Jacqueline Breyer, later known as Lady Jaye, in 1995, and together they embarked on the Pandrogeny Project, an attempt to unite as a "pandrogyne", or single entity, through
2499-885: A remastered version that includes enhanced material. Adapted from the Liner Notes of the Album Einst%C3%BCrzende Neubauten Einstürzende Neubauten ( German pronunciation: [ˈaɪnˌʃtʏʁtsn̩də ˈnɔyˌbaʊtn̩] , lit. 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The band currently comprises founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments, percussion, vocals), long-time contributor Alexander Hacke (bass, vocals), plus Jochen Arbeit (guitar, vocals), and Rudolph Moser (custom-built instruments, percussion, vocals), who both joined
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#17328772860772618-521: A result of his particular interest in the experimental use of light and sound. Together, Carter, Christopherson, Cosey and P-Orridge founded a musical band, Throbbing Gristle, on 3 September 1975; they had deliberately chosen that date for it was the 36th anniversary of the United Kingdom joining the Second World War . The term "throbbing gristle" was deliberately chosen for it was a Yorkshire slang term for an erect penis. Throbbing Gristle, or TG as it
2737-457: A revolutionary method of escaping current patterns of thought and developing something new. Following the break-up of Throbbing Gristle, in 1981 P-Orridge founded a band with Peter Christopherson and Alex Fergusson that they named Psychic TV. Involved in video art, they also performed psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music. The decision to name the band "Psychic TV" stemmed from P-Orridge's belief that while mainstream television
2856-528: A show by Erich Wonder , Das Auge des Taifun (" The eye of the typhoon "). The next album, Tabula Rasa (1993), was an important turning point in the band's history, the music becoming softer and containing more electronic sounds. In 1993, the band was booked to support U2 during the European leg of the Zoo TV Tour , but were thrown off the stage and off the tour when a band member threw an iron bar into
2975-500: A show titled The Concerto for Voices and Machinery at the ICA in London. After 20 minutes the venue halted the show when the band began to dig through the venue's stage with drills and jackhammers. 1984 also saw the first release of a best-of and rarities compilation, Strategies Against Architecture '80–'83 . The band's next album, Halber Mensch (" Half Man ") in 1985, may be seen as
3094-411: A single pandrogynous being named "Breyer P-Orridge". In doing so, the pair spent $ 200,000 on surgical alteration, receiving breast implants, cheek and chin implants, lip plumping, eye and nose jobs, tattooing, and hormone therapy, while also adopting gender neutral and alternating pronouns. With this project, P-Orridge's intent was to express a belief that the self is pure consciousness trapped within
3213-603: A soundtrack to Gysin's Dreammachine by the Hafler Trio . In the mid-1980s, Psychic TV aimed to release a live album on the 23rd of each month for 23 months in recognition of the 23 enigma . The group did not reach its goal but still managed fourteen albums in eighteen months, thus earning them an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records . Following the culmination of Psychic TV but before embarking on Thee Majesty, P-Orridge and several Psychic TV musicians formed Splinter Test,
3332-753: A spontaneous unauthorised piece of performance art in Brook Green , Hammersmith ; during the performance, police arrived and put a stop to the event, deeming it obscene. In September 1974, COUM were invited to attend the Stadfest in Rottweil , West Germany , and they proceeded with a travel grant from the British Council . There, they published two performance art actions in the street, earning them praise from Bridget Riley and Ernst Jandl , both of whom were present. The acclaim that COUM received at Rottweil established
3451-447: A strict regime with the intention of deconditioning its members out of their routines and conventional behaviour; they were forbidden from sleeping in the same place on consecutive nights, food was cooked at irregular times of the day and all clothing was kept in a communal chest, with its members wearing something different on each day. P-Orridge stayed there for three months, until late October 1969. They left after becoming angered that
3570-473: A time lived in a caravan near to Epping Forest while the family house was being completed. The family then moved from Essex to Cheshire , where they attended Gatley Primary School. Passing the 11-plus exam, they won a scholarship to attend Stockport Grammar School , doing so between 1961 and 1964. After their father became the Midlands area manager of a cleaning and maintenance business, they were sent to
3689-655: A variety of different musical genres. P-Orridge received a number of threatening phone calls, proceeding to record them and use them as a backing track for the TG song "Death Threats". The final IR release was called Nothing Here Now But the Recordings , a best-of album taken from the archives of William S. Burroughs , who provided P-Orridge and Christopherson with access to his reel-to-reel tape archive. The final Throbbing Gristle live event, Mission of Dead Souls , occurred in May 1981 at
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3808-418: A world tour followed the release. During this time, Jochen Arbeit and Rudolph Moser (both members of Die Haut ) joined the band: Arbeit on guitar, and Moser on drums, with Hacke switching to bass guitar. This lineup, accompanied by Ash Wednesday on keyboards for live concerts, has held ever since. Alternative Press included Einstürzende Neubauten in their 1996 list of "100 underground inspirations of
3927-442: Is placed on all of the band's official products, such as vinyl/CD/DVD covers, posters, artwork, and memorabilia. The logo is copyrighted by the band. Blixa Bargeld said that by re-purposing a Toltec petroglyph , whose meaning was purposefully undefined, as their band logo , it would be "filled" with meaning later. Genesis P-Orridge Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson ; 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020)
4046-466: Is usually translated into English as "Collapsing New Buildings". Neubauten (" new buildings ") is a general term referring to buildings constructed in Germany after 1945. These are often regarded as cheaper, flimsier, and less aesthetically attractive than Altbauten , or pre-1945, especially pre- modernist buildings. Due to the extensive destruction throughout Germany during the Second World War , and
4165-635: The Contemporary Artists reference book. The work meant that they had less time to devote to COUM but gained a wide range of contacts in the art world. During that year, COUM embarked on a series of five performance pieces which it termed Omissions ; these were performed across Europe. In March 1975, COUM performed Couming of Youth at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Adopting a more violent stance than their previous work – in this reflecting an influence from
4284-601: The Humber . Named the Ho-Ho Funhouse by P-Orridge, the warehouse became the communal home to an assortment of counter-cultural figures, including artists, musicians, fashion designers and underground magazine producers. At Christmas 1969, a woman named Christine Carol Newby moved into the Funhouse after being thrown out of her home by her father. Having earlier befriended them at an acid test party, Newby became P-Orridge's roommate at
4403-687: The Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco. Shortly after the San Francisco event, P-Orridge and Paula Brooking were married. During this period, P-Orridge befriended an English musician named David Bunting; P-Orridge already knew another man named David, so coined the moniker David Tibet , which Bunting adopted as a stage name. Through an introduction provided by Burroughs, P-Orridge met Brion Gysin in Paris, probably in 1980, coming to be deeply influenced by Gysin's cut-up method ; P-Orridge understood this to be
4522-601: The Neubauten Supporter's project finished in August 2005, and the official site was taken down on 20 September. The supporter album Grundstück (" Plot of Land ") and DVD (containing footage from the November 2004 Grundstück performance in Berlin) was shipped in early October 2005. Musterhaus No. 3 Solo Bassfeder (" Solo bass-spring "), released 8 December, is a collection of bass spring compositions by
4641-688: The Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, South London. It brought performers and audience together with literature, performance, film and music. PTV, Cabaret Voltaire , 23 Skidoo , Z'EV , John Giorno , William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin , Terry Wilson, Jeff Nuttall , and the Last Few Days participated to honour the cut-up techniques and theories of William S. Burroughs , Ian Sommerville , Antony Balch and Gysin. Video projection and early sampling were used here, as well as whispered utterances by P-Orridge reprocessed as
4760-526: The avant-garde while at Solihull School . After dropping out of studies at the University of Hull , they moved into a counter-cultural commune in London and adopted Genesis P-Orridge as their pseudonym. On returning to Hull, they founded COUM Transmissions with Cosey Fanni Tutti , and in 1973 they relocated to London. COUM's confrontational performance work , dealing with such subjects as sex work , pornography , serial killers , and occultism , represented
4879-479: The copyright symbol and its implications for art and society. Following continual police harassment, P-Orridge and Tutti relocated to London, moving into a squat and obtaining a basement studio in Hackney which they named the "Death Factory". After a brief correspondence, P-Orridge met American novelist and poet William S. Burroughs . Brion Gysin would become a major influence upon P-Orridge's ideas and works and
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4998-549: The "Godfather of Industrial Music ", or in some later sources, "godparent". The first Throbbing Gristle performance was held at the Air Gallery in London in July 1976. At that point, Throbbing Gristle's headquarters was located at 10 Martello Street, Hackney, East London , the address of an artist collective. P-Orridge and Tutti's living and work space was the postal address of Industrial Records (IR). Throbbing Gristle released " Discipline " in 1980. TG came to be identified as
5117-427: The 1980s included much metal banging and destruction on stage. During their first German tour, Mark Chung (previously the bass player with Abwärts ) joined the group of musicians. This lineup lasted nearly 15 years. In 1983, Einstürzende Neubauten recorded their second album, Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T. (" Drawings of Patient O.T. "). The title came from a 1974 book by Leo Navratil , describing
5236-810: The Canadian artist Clive Robertson to produce Marcel Duchamp's Next Work , which they premiered at an arts festival in the Zwarte Zaal Royal Conservatory of Ghent in Ghent , Belgium. COUM's next major work was Couming of Age , performed in March 1974 at the Oval House in Kennington , South London . After the show, they were approached by an audience member, Peter Christopherson , who shared many of their interests; P-Orridge and Tutti nicknamed him "Sleazy" because of
5355-464: The DNA-governed body. The couple adopted the term "pandrogyne" because – in their words – "we wanted a word without any history or any connections with things – a word with its own story and its own information". They also stated that: We started out, because we were so crazy in love, just wanting to eat each other up, to become each other and become one. And as we did that, we started to see that it
5474-545: The DVD documentary Einstürzende Neubauten - On tour with neubauten .org which describes the supporter project in detail, having interviewed international supporters during the Perpetuum Mobile tour in 2004. Musterhaus No. 5 Kassetten (" Cassettes "), finished 15 May with release scheduled for 31 May. At the same time, Alles was irgendwie nützt (" Everything of any use "), an album that had been in
5593-479: The Funhouse, first taking the name Cosmosis, but latterly adopting the stage name Cosey Fanni Tutti after the title of Amadeus Mozart 's 1790 opera Così fan tutte . Joining COUM, Tutti initially helped in building props and designing costumes, and was there when the group began including performance art and more theatrical happenings in its music events; Evetts, aka Spydeee Gasmantell, after being expelled from Solihull School joined COUM. The three of them lived in
5712-454: The Moon Club in West Berlin . This first lineup featured Beate Bartel and Gudrun Gut , Blixa Bargeld , and N.U. Unruh . The two female members, Bartel and Gut, left the band after a short period and founded Mania D . Shortly thereafter, Alexander Hacke (alias Alexander von Borsig), a sound technician and multi-instrumentalist who was 15 years old at the time, joined the band and became
5831-661: The Psychic TV song "Joy", in which he recites the Lord's Prayer backwards. From 1988, the band came under the increasing influence of the acid house genre of dance music, and were responsible for helping the popularisation of acid house music in Europe. Psychic TV made its debut in 1982 at an event organised by P-Orridge, David Dawson, and Roger Ely, called The Final Academy . It was a 4-day multimedia celebratory rally held in Manchester and at
5950-684: The Rat Tour was planned for 2020 to support the album's release, but was postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , being renamed The Year of the Tiger Tour. The tour's names were based on the animals associated with the tour's year in the Chinese calendar . In January 2023, the group announced the Rampen Phase of its Supporter's project on its website, introducing the idea of repurposing improvisations from
6069-605: The Viennese Actionists – the performance involved self-mutilation, Cosey inserting lighted candles into her vagina, P-Orridge being crucified and whipped, and P-Orridge and Cosey having sexual intercourse. At Southampton 's Nuffield Festival in July 1975, COUM performed Studio of Lust , where P-Orridge publicly masturbated and all of the members undressed and adopted sexual poses. COUM were introduced to Chris Carter in 1975 through their mutual friend John Lacey. Lacey believed that Carter would be interested in COUM as
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#17328772860776188-532: The Violins , Dead Violins and Degradation , and Clockwork Hot Spoiled Acid Test . The latter combined the names of Anthony Burgess ' dystopian science-fiction novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) with Tom Wolfe 's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), a work of literary journalism devoted to the Merry Pranksters , a US communal counter-cultural group who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs . COUM's music
6307-600: The amateur quality of their work. They entered the National Rock/Folk Contest at Hull's New Grange Club with a set titled This Machine Kills Music , and organised events for Hull City Council 's celebrations to mark the UK's entry into the European Economic Community in 1973. They had also worked on solo projects, generating controversy in the local press over a conceptual artwork the artist entered at
6426-502: The article's author, Haydn Robb (nowadays known as Haydn Nobb), subsequently joined COUM, as did maths lecturer Tim Poston . In April 1971, COUM, consisting of P-Orridge and Gasmantell, broadcast their first live radio session, for the On Cue programme for Radio Humberside . Following up the press attention they received, they performed further happenings, including their first street action, Absolute Everywhere , which brought problems with
6545-593: The artist David Medalla and initially named the Exploding Galaxy, had been at the forefront of the London hippy scene since 1967, but had partially disbanded after a series of police raids and a damaging court case. Moving into their commune, P-Orridge was particularly influenced by one of the founding members of the group, Gerald Fitzgerald, a kinetic artist , and would recognise Fitzgerald's formative influence in P-Orridge's later work. The commune members adhered to
6664-409: The avant-garde art scene, accrued a cult following , and had been given the moniker of the "Godparent of Industrial Music". P-Orridge considered themself third-gender and used various gender-neutral pronouns. Genesis P-Orridge was born on 22 February 1950 in Victoria Park , Manchester, to Ronald and Muriel Megson. Ronald was a travelling salesman who had worked in repertory theatre and who played
6783-411: The band attracted the interest of music journalist John Peel , who publicly remarked that "[s]ome might say that Coum were madmen but constant exposure to mankind forces me to believe that we need more madmen like them." Gaining an Experimental Arts Grant from the publicly funded Yorkshire Arts Association, COUM described themselves as performance artists, being inspired by the Dadaists and emphasising
6902-399: The band reneged on the idea of creating a supporter-only album, and cooperated with Mute Records to go on tour and release Perpetuum Mobile in 2004. Air sounds, such as blowing the plastic pipes with an air compressor, were greatly explored and used for this album: the working title of the album was, for a long while, Luftveränderung (" Change of air "). A half-hour documentary about
7021-413: The band went on a mini-tour, which included a supporters-only performance at Berlin's Palast der Republik . The performance was filmed and coordinated by Danielle de Picciotto and Ian Williamson and released on the exclusive supporter's DVD at the end of Phase II. The band also started a new project called Musterhaus in early 2005. The first CD, Anarchitektur , was sent out in May 2005, and
7140-414: The bands that sprang from it, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (again featuring Cave and Harvey). Bargeld remained a full-time member of both Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds until 2003, when he quit the Bad Seeds in order to focus on Einstürzende Neubauten . In 1984, Einstürzende Neubauten , with guests including Genesis P-Orridge , Stevo Pearce , Frank Tovey and others, played
7259-443: The booing crowd. Mark Chung left the band in 1994 after the recording of Faustmusik for Werner Schwab 's play, and made a career in the music industry. F.M. Einheit , who contributed much to the music and sound of the band, left the band a short time later in 1995, during the recording of the Ende Neu album, at least partially because of a conflict with Bargeld. The last Einstürzende Neubauten track Einheit worked on
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#17328772860777378-448: The character at an event entitled the World Premiere of the Alien Brain , at Hull Arts Centre. COUM also began publishing books; in 1972, they brought out the first volume of The Million and One Names of COUM , part of a proposed project to release 1001 slogans (such as "A thousand and one ways to COUM" and "COUM are Fab and Kinky"), while in 1973 P-Orridge published Copyright Breeches , which explored an ongoing personal fascination with
7497-460: The commune's leaders were given more rights than the other members and believing that the group ignored the counter-cultural use of music, something they took a great interest in. Julie Wilson later stated that although P-Orridge's time at the Transmedia Explorations commune had been brief, "the experiences (they) had there proved to be seminal" to their artistic development. Leaving London, P-Orridge hitch-hiked across Britain before settling down in
7616-410: The core group who went on to form Throbbing Gristle . Throbbing Gristle was formed in late 1975 as a four-piece band, consisting of P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti , Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter . The name "Throbbing Gristle" was adopted after a Northern English slang term for an erect penis. P-Orridge's involvement in Throbbing Gristle led to the artist being regularly cited as
7735-414: The drawings of Oswald Tschirtner . The band also appeared as guest performers on Fad Gadget 's "Collapsing New People" 7" single's B-side track Spoil The Child , recorded at Hansa Tonstudio , Berlin in November 1983. Also in 1983, Bargeld joined the band The Birthday Party (featuring Nick Cave and Mick Harvey ) as a guitarist. That group soon disbanded, but Bargeld became a longtime member of one of
7854-439: The drums in local jazz and dance bands. Muriel was from Salford and had first met Ronald after he returned to England after being injured with the British Army at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940. As a child, they had a good relationship with their parents, who did not interfere with their artistic interests. Due to Ronald's job, the family moved to Essex , where they attended Staples Road Infant School in Loughton , and for
7973-400: The extensive rebuilding thereafter, Neubauten constitute a very familiar element of German cities. The band's name attracted unexpected attention when on 21 May 1980, not two months after the band's forming, the roof of the Berlin Congress Hall famously collapsed, killing one person and injuring many. The resulting media attention surrounding the collapse of the German-American icon gave
8092-422: The feature-length documentary titled A Message from the Temple , about Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and P-Orridge. At 45 years of age P-Orridge met Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer) in a BDSM dungeon in New York City and would eventually marry for a second time. Jaye worked as a nurse during the daytime, providing care for children with terminal illnesses and disabilities. In the evenings, Lady Jaye worked as
8211-431: The first happening at the school, doing so under the auspices of organising a school dance. Brought up in the Anglican denomination of Christianity, P-Orridge became secretary of the school sixth form 's Christian Discussion Circle, in this position inviting members of other ideological positions – including a Marxist from the British Communist Party – to speak to the group. Aged 18, P-Orridge began helping to run
8330-438: The first half of a £1,500 grant. The money stabilised the group, which now included P-Orridge and Tutti as directors, John Gunni Busck as technical director, and Lelli Maull as musical director. During that year, they made use of various artist-run venues in London, most notably the Art Meeting Place (AMP) in Covent Garden , where they regularly performed during 1974. A number of these works entailed P-Orridge and Tutti exploring
8449-427: The floor. Exhibiting alongside the Viennese Actionists , P-Orridge came under increasing influence from these Austrian performance artists, adopting their emphasis on using shock tactics to combat conventional morality. P-Orridge's first film, Wundatrek Tours , was released in September 1973, and documented a day out to Brighton. Throughout the year the artist sent personally designed postcards to mail-art shows across
8568-574: The foodstuff which they had lived off as a student. The new name was intentionally un-glamorous, and they hoped that it would trigger a personal "genius factor". In February, COUM caught the attention of The Yorkshire Post , which featured an article on them that led to further media attention from national newspapers. They also featured in an article in Torch , the publication of the University of Hull's student union, entitled "God Sucks Mary 's Hairy Nipple";
8687-475: The former's particular interest in the sexual aspects of COUM's work. Christopherson began to aid them using their skills as a photographer and graphic designer, and would first perform with them in their March 1975 work Couming of Youth . In May 1974, COUM issued a manifesto published on an A3 double-sided sheet titled Decoumpositions and Events . In April 1974, the Arts Council of Great Britain gave COUM
8806-510: The founders of industrial music , although at the same time the academic Drew Daniel asserted that as a result of its eclecticism, their music resists clear analysis. Throbbing Gristle's best-selling single was " Zyklon B Zombie " (1978), the title being a reference to the Zyklon B poison gas used at Auschwitz extermination camp . With their album 20 Jazz Funk Greats they attempted to move away from their industrial sound, and produced songs in
8925-485: The gender balance, including concepts of gender confusion. In one performance at the AWB, which was titled Filth , P-Orridge and Tutti performed sexual acts using a double-ended dildo . COUM were frustrated with the restrictions imposed on them by the Arts Council as a prerequisite for receiving funding; rather than performing at Council-accredited venues, they wanted to perform more spontaneously. In August 1974 they carried out
9044-541: The group's reputation as "one of the most innovative performance art groups then on the London art scene", convincing the Arts Council and British Council to take them more seriously and offer them greater support. "COUM is not 'about' entertainment, it is coumcerned [sic] with direct, symbolic interpretation of actions to realise a uniquely personal perception." P-Orridge, 1974 In February 1975, P-Orridge gained their first full-time job, working as an assistant editor at St. James Press , in which they helped to compile
9163-601: The group, consisting of a semi-erect penis formed out of the word COUM with a drip of semen coming out of the end, while the motto "Your Local Dirty Banned" (a pun on "band") was emblazoned underneath. Another logo designed by P-Orridge consisted of a hand-drawn seal accompanied by the statement "COUM guarantee disappointment"; from their early foundation, the group made use of wordplay in their artworks and adverts. COUM's earliest public events were impromptu musical gigs performed at various pubs around Hull; titles for these events included Thee Fabulous Mutations , Space Between
9282-466: The increasing influence of acid house . In 1981, P-Orridge co-founded Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth , an informal occult order influenced by chaos magic and experimental music. P-Orridge was seen as the group's leader, but rejected that position, and left the group in 1991. Amid the Satanic ritual abuse hysteria, a 1992 Channel 4 documentary accused P-Orridge of sexually abusing children , resulting in
9401-560: The individual members of Einstürzende Neubauten . Phase III of the Supporter's project started on 10 February. On 25 February, the fourth part of the Musterhaus series, Redux Orchestra versus Einstürzende Neubauten , was completed. One of the new additions to Phase III started in March 2006 was a piece-by-piece album, Jewels , finally finished in August 2007. Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke's wife and longtime companion, released
9520-549: The line-up in 1997. One of their trademarks is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Their early albums were unremittingly harsh, with Bargeld's vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. Subsequent recordings found the group's sound growing somewhat more conventional, yet still containing many unorthodox elements. On 1 April 1980, Einstürzende Neubauten made their first appearance, at
9639-413: The live concerts in a suit. 1991 also saw the release of the double album, a best-of and rarities album, Strategies Against Architecture II . This collection included a musical setting of Heiner Müller 's piece Bildbeschreibung (" Explosion of a Memory " or " Description of a Picture "). In Vienna , May 1992, Einstürzende Neubauten performed at The Academy of Fine Arts ' 300th anniversary in
9758-547: The local Sunday school classes, but came to reject organised Christianity. Afflicted with asthma throughout childhood, P-Orridge had to take cortisone and prednisone steroids to control the attacks. The latter of these drugs caused their adrenal glands to atrophy as a side-effect, and so the doctor advised P-Orridge to stop taking them. As a result, aged 17, P-Orridge suffered from a serious blackout ; while in hospital recovering they decided to devote their life to art and writing. With Hermon and Wolfson, P-Orridge founded
9877-463: The meaning of their name a new dimension. The Einstürzende Neubauten logo is an appropriation by the band of an archaic ideogram or petroglyph . It appears to be a stick figure with a circled dot or sol ( [REDACTED] ) as its head. The provenance of the logo has been attributed to the sacred ring of Stonehenge , or possibly to an Olmec Native American cave, and most directly in one source to ancient Chinese origins. The logo
9996-548: The open-ended Richterscale ") in 1987 and Haus der Lüge (" House of the Lie ") in 1989, were great successes in the United States and Japan. In 1990, the band tried something completely new, recording the soundtrack for East German playwright Heiner Müller's play Die Hamletmaschine (" The Hamlet Machine ") for East German radio Rundfunk der DDR . The band image of Einstürzende Neubauten changed: Blixa Bargeld, formerly wearing punk/industrial style clothes, appeared at
10115-434: The paid EN community at neubauten.org received access to an album with the same tracks plus a number of extra songs, and an optional DVD about the making of the album. The band also filmed a video for "Nagorny Karabach". They spent the first half of 2008 touring for the album, playing 32 dates in 19 European countries. Einstürzende Neubauten celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2010 with a tour through Europe. An American leg
10234-484: The past 20 years." In 1997, the album Ende Neu Remixes was released, which featured remixes of the songs from Ende Neu by artists such as Barry Adamson , Pan Sonic and Darkus (alias Mark Rutherford ); Darkus's remix tracks, with others not included on Ende Neu Remixes , were made available separately in the same year on The NNNAAAMMM Remixes By Darkus release. From 27 March to 23 May 2000, Einstürzende Neubauten celebrated their 20th birthday with
10353-515: The police charged P-Orridge and Robb with publishing an obscene advert, although the charges were later dropped. As they gained coverage in the music press, interest in the band grew, and they supported Hawkwind at St. George's Hall in Bradford in October 1971, where they performed a piece called Edna and the Great Surfers , where they led the crowd in shouting "Off, Off, Off". The following month,
10472-595: The police charged P-Orridge with distributing obscene material via in the postal system under the 1953 Post Office Act ; this trial was set for February 1976. They were prosecuted in 1975 for making collages combining postcards of Queen Elizabeth with soft-core porn, but the jail term and fines were suspended on condition they did not continue. Their Prostitution show, in 1976 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, included displays of Tutti's pornographic images from magazines as well as erotic nude photographs;
10591-434: The police. After performing another set, Riot Control , at Hull's Gondola Club, the premises were raided by police and closed soon after; most local clubs blamed COUM and unofficially banned them. COUM drew up a petition to gain support for the group, attaining a booking at the local Brickhouse; their first performance in which the audience applauded and called for an encore. The petition had contained their phallic logo, and
10710-407: The previous tour into a full album. The album was originally planned to release in autumn of the same year, but was officially announced to release in the spring of 2024 on 24 December 2023. The album was released in early April 2024. The single Ist Ist was also released prior to the album and the autumn 2024 alien pop music tour was announced, with concerts in Europe scheduled. The band name
10829-524: The privately run Solihull School in Warwickshire between 1964 and 1968; a period they would refer to as "basically four years of being mentally and physically tortured", but also a time when they developed an interest in art, occultism and the avant-garde. At age fifteen, they became a fan of "The Hundred Headless Woman," a book that contained surrealist collages by various artists, including Max Ernst . The book became an early source of inspiration, and it
10948-584: The show featured a stripper, used tampons in glass, and transvestite guards. Prostitutes, punks , and people in costumes were among those hired to mingle with the gallery audience. The show caused debate in Parliament about the public funding of such events. In the House of Commons , Scottish Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn demanded an explanation from Arts Minister Harold Lever and proclaimed P-Orridge and Tutti as "wreckers of civilisation". Fleet Street
11067-598: The sigilisation practices of occult artist Austin Osman Spare . Journalist Gavin Baddeley described TOPY as "perhaps the most influential new occult order of the 1980s". P-Orridge had never wanted to be seen as the leader of an occult order, although many of those involved in TOPY were frustrated that outsiders regularly described P-Orridge as the group's leader. Accordingly, P-Orridge separated from TOPY in 1991, although it continued as
11186-491: The supporters project, Traumfestival , was made by Ste van Holm and Dihcar, and is available on YouTube. The live shows of the Perpetuum Mobile Tour were recorded by the band's sound engineers, then burned on CDRs with individual pictures of each show taken by Danielle de Picciotto and sold directly after the concerts; numerous "official" live albums were created during this tour as a result. In November 2004,
11305-399: The time spent at Transmedia Explorations. In November 1969, P-Orridge returned to Hull to meet up with friend John Shapeero, who partnered with P-Orridge to turn COUM Transmissions into an avant-garde artistic and musical troupe. They initially debated as to how to define "COUM", later deciding that like the name " dada " it should remain open to interpretation. P-Orridge designed a logo for
11424-494: The time, P-Orridge was in Thailand undertaking famine relief work; fearing arrest and loss of child custody upon return to the UK, P-Orridge stayed out of the country for several years, settling in the United States. P-Orridge believed that the negative press and police attention were the result of a campaign organised by a Christian group. It was subsequently revealed that the footage obtained did not depict child abuse. Instead, it
11543-418: The use of surgical body modification to physically resemble one another. P-Orridge continued with this project of body modification after Lady Jaye's 2007 death. Although involved in reunions of both Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV in the 2000s, they retired from music to focus on other artistic media in 2009. P-Orridge was credited on over 200 releases during their lifetime. They were cited as an icon within
11662-436: The work since Phase 2, were completed. The album consists of rare live tracks, handpicked by 6 supporters of Phase 2 and mixed by Boris Wilsdorf. This was quickly followed by Musterhaus No. 6 Klaviermusik (" Piano music "), released on 31 August. In October, Neubauten released a public DVD, the recording made at Palast der Republik . Musterhaus No. 7 Stimmen Reste (" Voice Remainders ")
11781-532: The world. "COUM enable all kinds of people to discover their abilities to express ideas through different media. COUM believe that you don't NEED special training to produce and/or enjoy, worthwhile, significant and unique works. COUM demonstrate that there are NO boundaries in any form. It has NOT all been done before, and that which has can still bear valid re-interpretation. Thee [sic] possibilities remain endless." COUM Manifesto, 1974 In January 1974, COUM returned their attention to music, collaborating with
11900-559: The writings of Aleister Crowley , William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and the music of Frank Zappa , the Fugs and the Velvet Underground . They became interested in occultism , and also asserted that their grandmother was a medium . In 1967, P-Orridge founded their first collective, Worm, with school friends Pingle Wad (Peter Winstanley), Spydeee Gasmantell (Ian Evetts) and P-Orridge's girlfriend Jane Ray. Worm
12019-430: Was Was ist ist . Roland Wolf replaced them on bass guitar and keyboards only a short time before dying in a car accident in 1995. A short time later, the band released the album Ende Neu (" Ending New ") in 1996. The title is wordplay on the band's own name (i.e. " Einstürz ende Neu bauten "). The song Stella Maris – a duet between Bargeld and Hacke's then-wife, singer Meret Becker – became quite famous;
12138-474: Was a form of mass indoctrination and mind control, it could be used as an "esoterrorist" form of magick to combat the establishment's control. Historian Dave Evans described Psychic TV as "a band dedicated to musical eclecticism and magical experiment, their performances being in part ritual (ab)use of sound samples, the creation of 'auditory magical sigils' and the destruction of consensus language in order to find meaning". The band's first song, "Just Drifting",
12257-449: Was a video artwork titled First Transmissions that had been made in the early 1980s, partially funded by Channel 4 itself; the footage depicted sex-magic rites between adults, bloodletting performances, and scenes of the filmmaker Derek Jarman reading passages from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer . Embarrassed by these revelations, Channel 4 retracted its initial accusations. In 2016, the film director Jacqueline Castel began work on
12376-648: Was able to play. On the tour, the group's experimental and improvised live performance style occasionally caused difficulties with venue management and law enforcement. A performance at The Palladium in Manhattan ended after an improvised pyrotechnics display. The band ignited lighter fluid in a couple of metal pans, and management stopped the performance and cleared the venue. The one-hour film Halber Mensch (1986) by Sōgo Ishii documents Einstürzende Neubauten 's visit to Japan in 1985. The next two albums, Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala (" Five on
12495-544: Was affecting us in ways that we didn't expect. Really, we were just two parts of one whole; the pandrogyne was the whole and we were each other's other half. During this era, a book was published of P-Orridge's writings, poems, and observations, called Ooh, You Are Awful ... But I Like You! . In the mid-1990s, P-Orridge collaborated with different people in music, including Pigface , Skinny Puppy , and Download . P-Orridge also performed with Nik Turner and other former members of Hawkwind . In June 1998, P-Orridge won
12614-447: Was also available for download to Musterhaus subscribers. The Musterhaus project was a "line of releases intended to give the band an outlet for more experimental impulses and exploration." Musterhaus albums were released roughly every 3 months. The second Musterhaus CD, Unglaublicher Lärm (" Incredible noise "), was finished on 15 August, and shipped out (as well as posted for download) shortly after. Phase II of
12733-573: Was also planned, but eventually cancelled due to visa scheduling problems. Silence Is Sexy was reissued on 1 July 2011. In November 2014 the group released album Lament , a studio reconstruction of a performance piece commissioned by the Belgian town of Diksmuide to commemorate the outbreak of World War I. The album Alles in Allem was released in May 2020 as the group's first full-length release of new material since 2014. A tour dubbed The Year of
12852-592: Was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist who rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle . They were also a founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth occult group, and fronted the experimental pop rock band Psychic TV . Born in Manchester , P-Orridge developed an early interest in art, occultism, and
12971-472: Was anarchic and improvised, making use of such instruments as broken violins, prepared pianos, guitars, bongos and talking drums. As time went on, they added further theatrics to their performances, in one instance making the audience crawl through a polythene tunnel to enter the venue. In December 1969, P-Orridge and Shapiro moved out of their flat and into a former fruit warehouse in Hull's docking area, overlooking
13090-424: Was at that time that they took on the name "P-Orridge." Unpopular with other pupils, they were bullied at the school, finding comfort in the art department at lunch-time and in the evenings. They befriended Ian "Spydeee" Evetts, Barry "Little Baz" Hermon and Paul Wolfson, three fellow pupils who shared their interest in art, literature, and poetry. They regularly discussed books and music, developing an interest in
13209-532: Was based on a poem by P-Orridge. For their first album, Force the Hand of Chance (1982), P-Orridge used a kangling , or Tibetan trumpet made out of a human thigh-bone; the instrument had been introduced to P-Orridge by David Tibet , and attracted attention to their music. P-Orridge had become acquainted with Anton LaVey , founder of the Church of Satan and ideologue of LaVeyan Satanism , with LaVey making an appearance on
13328-535: Was ever produced. A second album, Catching the Bird , was recorded but never pressed. In September 1968, P-Orridge began studying for a degree in Social Administration and Philosophy at the University of Hull . Hull was chosen in an attempt to study at "the most ordinary non-elitist, working-class, red brick university", but P-Orridge disliked the course and unsuccessfully tried to transfer to study English. With
13447-651: Was influenced by AMM and John Cage 's 1961 book Silence: Lectures and Writings . In 1966, P-Orridge, Evetts, Hermon, Wolfson, and Winstanley began production of an underground magazine , entitled Conscience . Forbidden from selling it on school grounds, they sold copies outside the school gates. Included in Conscience were various articles criticising the school's administration, leading to proposed changes regarding such issues as school uniforms and prefects (known as benchers) privileges. That same year, influenced by newspaper accounts of " Swinging London ", they organised
13566-480: Was informed of the event, P-Orridge told reporters that the Knights wanted to ignite "an artistic revolution in Solihull, by making people aware of the life around them, its essential beauty and tranquillity." In mid-1968, Worm recorded their first and only album, entitled Early Worm , in P-Orridge's parents' attic in Solihull. It was pressed onto vinyl in November at Deroy Sound Services in Manchester, but only one copy
13685-441: Was not slow to pick up the story. The reviews were cut up, framed, and put on display for the remainder of the exhibition. This was also reported in newspapers, so cut-ups about the cut-ups were also put on display. COUM was found so offensive that it lost its government grant, and went on to become the private company Industrial Records . Toward the end of COUM, performances would often consist of only P-Orridge, Cosey and Sleazy,
13804-531: Was released on 2 December, consisting of vocal experiments, vocal recordings, and manipulations of voice recordings, enriched with leftover instrumental tracks made with polystyrene, electronic pulses, Hammond organ, bass guitar, and metal percussion. It was announced on the band's website that it would be undertaking a "small (mostly) UK tour" in April 2007, but playing in Hanover on 22 April beforehand. Musterhaus No. 8 Weingeister (" Wine spirits ")
13923-401: Was released on 6 April, forming the final installment of the Musterhaus series. A new commercial album was made available later in the year, the first release since 2004's Perpetuum Mobile . The new album, Alles wieder offen (" All open again "), was released in 2007 without the backing of a label, a move the band had intended to make with Perpetuum Mobile . Fans who were part of
14042-639: Was the latter's primary tutor in spiritual magic . 1973 saw COUM take part in the Fluxshoe retrospective that toured Britain exhibiting the work of the Fluxus artists; it was organised by David Mayor, who befriended P-Orridge. At that year's Edinburgh Festival , P-Orridge undertook a Marcel Duchamp -inspired performance art piece, Art Vandals , at the Richard Demarco Gallery , engaging guests in unconventional conversation, and spilling their food and drink on
14161-461: Was widely known, was aimed at a wider audience than COUM, thereby aiming to work within popular culture rather than the elite realm of the art scene. COUM and TG were largely treated as distinct entities; the music press ignored COUM and saw TG as experimental art rock , while the arts press ignored TG, viewing COUM as performance artists. Despite their intention of operating within the realms of popular culture, TG never had chart success, and remained
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