I actually read Cosy's and Gen's books in tandem until the break up of Throbbing Gristle,,,,then I finished each separately. It was really interest to read the same story from two very different perspectives.
Yeah Nonbinary is very whimsical and very childish were Art Sex Music is very well written and very thought out about the events and about how she was feeling. I was very happy that she opted out of the documentary and them. I feel like it was done solely in respect of the dead and the legacy. S/He was a very controlling and manipulative person. I mean they did start a cult.
Her other book...Re-Sisters....is also very much worth a read especially if pioneering experimental and electronic music is your thing.
The docudrama she did for the BBC about Delia Derbyshire is amazing.
I could go on for days about Peter Christopherson Of throbbing Gristle and all the wonderous and amazing acts that came out of it Coil is my favorite. Coil is my desert island band. I honestly would not want to live if I was told I could never hear them again.
While i prefer their early albums specifically Horse Rotovator and Scatology...lately I've been spending a lot of time spinning everything Music to Play In The Dark to Ape of Naples. I think Black Antlers is the height of the later Coil sound.
Dais also recently released the two SoiSong (Peter and CoH) releases on vinyl for the first tiem ever and they sound amazing....so both of those have been getting pretty heavy play.
I literally ordered yesterday both Amulet and Forms Grow rampant from Threshold Houseboys Choir so I'm sure when those arrive they will be all I play for a week.
I absolutely love Peter as a director. I think the videos he did for NIN Broken are incredible as is the video for Refuse/Resist by Sepultura and Ministry's Over the Shoulder. The Coil videos are all works of art. If someone was to ever ask me about the AIDS crisis in the 80s I would tell them to watch Tainted Love and that would explain exactly what it was like.
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