Yes! Finally!….I have posted a new video from the TG show we went to! Check it out. Comment on it do whatever you like! I’ll post the next video extremely soon. Enjoy the new video. As always if you want to check out the rest of my videos just check out my youtube page!
(Editor’s note: In celebration with seeing TG in Brooklyn, we shall continue posting videos and other things we find and collect about TG. So in good fashion and the pursuit of fantastic music we shall present the awaited new interview that BoingBoing did with TG! Also i will be posting a new video from the show we went to very soon.)
So, what is it like to see industrial music legends Throbbing Gristle perform live?
"Next closest thing to an internal organ massage standing next to [SRL's] V1 pulsejet engine," said BB pal Karen Marcelo, after one of the dates on the band’s 2009 reunion tour. "It was like my diaphragm resonated until my lungs became a subwoofer while words once from a man’s mouth sprung from the same woman’s mouth," twittered TG trufan T.Bias.
Before we shot the Boing Boing Video interview which is today’s episode, above, Richard Metzger and I spoke to Throbbing Gristle’s sound technician backstage, and asked what we should expect in the way of sub-bass frequencies — rumored to be so powerful during performances that cameras can’t hold a steady shot, and bowels sometimes can’t hold their contents. Charlie Poulet, TG’s sound tech, cracked up and flashed an evil grin.
"Oh, we got some frequencies," he laughed, "Yeah, we definitely got some frequencies ready for you people tonight."
Those "frequencies" are part of what make TG’s music so transcendental and disturbing, and in the BB interview with Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, we explore their technical and creative underpinnings.
We learn about the hacked-together synth and sound modification machines built back in the early 1970s, like "Thee Gristleizer," shown below.
We hear TG members talk about the sort of mind-meld trance they all fall in to while performing, and we learn about the early days of recording work like "Hamburger Lady" to cassette tapes, then walking down to have a hamburger together at a corner sandwich shop down the street from their old studio in what was then a really shitty part of London.
Gen talks about her first time with Twitter, and we hear what it’s like for the band once called "wreckers of civilization" to be celebrated, more than 30 years later, as living legends.
Information on TG’s remaining 2009 tour dates here. Industrial Records just released a special limited edition framed vinyl LP to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of Throbbing Gristle’s debut album, "The Second Annual Report" — more info here. More recordings (digital and otherwise), t-shirts, and other merch are here.
(Courtesy of BoingBoing)
Here it is! The first video of the few i captured at the show. This show was truely amazing and actually a historic event, since this band hardly ever tours or comes across the pond to the U.S.. I’ll try to post the rest of the videos today but depending on things im sure its gonna be a while till all the videos are posted so please be patient. If you want also you can check out my YouTube page for more videos that i’ve taken at other events.
Wow, what can i say!…We went to the Throbbing Gristle show yesterday and all i can say is WOOOOOWWWW!!! I do have many pictures to post and video! But to tide you over till i get everything sorted I shall post this video that youtube user “Darkness Spoken” shot at the same show we were at, and from the look of it, this was shot from the balcony of the Masonic Hall.
If you goto Darkness Spoken youtube page there are a few extra videos there of the same show.
More to come….