Psychic TV (sometimes spelt Psychick TV) or PTV, is a UK video art and music group that performs electronic and experimental music influenced by industrial and techno styles. The band was formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and video director Peter Christopherson with Alex Fergusson, a musician and producer and a member of Alternative TV. Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... PTV can refer to: PTV (PremiumTV), UK based digital rights and streaming company PTV, a Family Guy episode Pakistan Television Corporation, a television channel in Pakistan Pactiv. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... 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The band began publishing a monthly series of 23 live albums in 1986, but stopped after 17 albums. The tenth, a picture disk most commonly referred to as Album 10, could only be obtained by submitting tokens contained in each of the previous nine releases. The band earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for most records released in one year. 23 (twenty-three) is the natural number following 22 and preceding 24. ... Album 10 (also known as Psychedelic Violence or Thee Yellow Album) is the tenth album in the series of live albums by Psychic TV. Only 1,000 individually numbered picture disc LPs were available (free of charge), to collectors of the previous nine albums in the series. ... The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (aka T.O.P.Y.), was formed as an organisation at the same time as the band, to be the philosophical wing and fanclub for the group. Psychic TV released early albums of acid house music in (1988), packaged as fake compilations, such as Jack The Tab and Tekno Acid Beat. After breaking up in 1999, Psychic TV reformed as PTV3 with a new line-up in 2003. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... . The Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer, which provided the electronic squelch sounds often heard in Acid House tracks A yellow smiley face is considered the emblem of acid house. ... Jack The Tab - Acid Tablets Volume One is an album of material by Psychic TV released under the guise of a various artists compilation album. ... Tekno Acid Beat is an album of material by Psychic TV released under the guise of a various artists compilation album. ...

History

1981-1987

Psychic TV was formed with the core membership of Genesis P-Orridge and Alex Fergusson in 1981. Alexander Fergusson was a member of the punk outfit Alternative TV, upon whose 1978 album Vibing Up The Senile Man (Part One) had played percussion, and contributed the latter half of the name Psychic TV [1]. Peter Christopherson got involved in 1982 and claimed that the 'TV' component of the name was intended to focus on the visual elements of the outfit. Genesis P-Orridge primarily wrote the lyrics, he would assemble different groups of musicians together to create the music, which accounts for the changing musical nature of PTV. The history of Psychic TV can be divided into the periods of the main songwriter that was working with him at the time. Alternative TV was an influential British punk rock band. ...

P-Orridge once claimed that "Psychic TV is a video group who does music unlike a music group which makes music videos". Similarities can be seen in the artwork for Alternative TV and early Psychic TV releases, with a recurring pastiche on the 'as seen on TV' marketing style. In the earliest live performances, Psychic TV maintained much of the noisy atmosphere as P-Orridge's previous band, Throbbing Gristle, although now with an increased use of exotic acoustic drums and other instruments. Psychic TV were signed to WEA Records and subsequently CBS based on the infamy of Throbbing Gristle]. Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) is a British experimental music and industrial music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...

Their first albums Force The Hand Of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet featured high production values, catchy pop songs written by Fergusson (with barbershop quartet vocals arranged by Andrew Pearson), and sound experiments primarily created by Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance - foreshadowing the pair's later work as Coil. Marc Almond was also involved. Force The Hand Of Chance was the debut album of English group Psychic TV. The initial 5,000 pressings included Themes and a poster. ... Dreams Less Sweet is the second proper album by Psychic TV. The album was released in Holophonic sound. ... Peter Martin Christopherson, a. ... John Balance (first name also spelled Jhon and Jhonn; born Geff Rushton/Geoffrey Laurence Burton; February 16, 1962 – November 13, 2004). ... Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his lover Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy.[1] The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by... Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July 1957 in Southport, Lancashire, England) is a popular English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell. ...

The live shows continued to be improvised noise until Peter Christopherson left the group and Fergusson implemented musicians capable of improvisational pop music, known as hyperdelic, such as that featured on the singles Godstar and Roman P. This led to a series of 23 live show recordings being released, which dominated most of Psychic TV's output until 1988. Towards the end of this period Fergusson/P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album Allegory and Self: Thee Starlit Mire. It was at this point that P-Orridge became interested in acid house and techno. Alex Fergusson left and was replaced with techno artist Fred Gianelli. Allegory And Self is a varied LP that highlights all the strengths of the 1980s version of Psychic TV or Psychick TV. It includes songs of pure pop beauty from Alex Fergusson as well as horrifying meditations that sound like ghostly ceremonies. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ...

1988-1992

During this period Fred Giannelli and other techno artists released music not only as Psychic TV, but also a variety of 'fake' names. The idea behind this was to release 'compilations' of these imaginary artists, creating a sense that a healthy acid house scene existed in the UK. The key studio albums of this period were Jack The Tab, Tekno Acid Beat and Towards the Infinite Beat, as almost all of the live shows in this period were based around the songs on these albums. Boston, Massachusetts born Fred Giannelli began experimenting with electronics in the late 70s as Turning Shrines. ...

P-Orridge decided not to return to England from Kathmandu, where he and his family had been working with Tibetan refugees, instead going into "self-imposed exile". This was after a video he had created was falsely presented as evidence of Satanic ritual abuse in an edition of Channel 4 TV's Dispatches. The programme was later discredited, though not before his house was raided by the police and the allegations had been repeated in the tabloid press. He said that he felt he would not get a fair hearing if he returned to England, so the family moved to California. Satanism Associated organizations Church of Satan First Satanic Church First Church of Satan Prominent figures Anton LaVey | Blanche Barton | Peter H. Gilmore | Peggy Nadramia | Karla LaVey Associated concepts Left-Hand Path | Pentagonal Revisionism | Suitheism | Survival of the fittest | Might is Right Books and publications The Satanic Bible | The Satanic Rituals... A dispatch can be: A report sent to a newspaper by a correspondent. ...

Shortly after moving to the US, P-Orridge underwent a divorce which traumatized him immensely. Most of the output during this period was made up of re-releases of earlier albums, especially by industrial music record labels who released the albums as a "paying of respects" to the founder of industrial music. It has been suggested that Chicago Industrial be merged into this article or section. ...

1993-1999

In 1992 Kim Cascone (founder of Silent Records) introduced P-Orridge to Larry Thrasher, co-founder of the mid 80's San Francisco experimental noise band Thessalonians. This began a new period with Psychic TV returning to its psychedelic pop roots with Thrasher co-producing the critically acclaimed Trip/Reset as well as new experimental explorations which centered around the spoken word poetry of P-orridge in releases like "Thee Fractured Garden" and "Breathe". "Thee Fractured Garden" was a seminal example of this period where Psychic TV blended ambient music, samples and sound collages with spoken word. This eventually led to the offshoot groups Splinter Test and later Thee Majesty, both with Thrasher, which focused on the spoken word and sonic experimentations. Kim Cascone is an American composer of electronic music, who is best known for his releases in the ambient genre on his own record company, Silent Records. ... Larry Thrasher Larry Thrasher is an American experimental musician. ... Following entry into a strange and wonderous personal and political exile/evolution in the United States in the early 1990s, Genesis P-Orridge became engaged in various spoken word performances including work with the late Timothy Leary, as mentioned, documentaries and a new band, Thee Majesty as well as a... Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. ... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson February 22, 1950) is an English performer, musician, writer and artist. ...

Other notable releases upon which P-Orridge collaborated with Thrasher were the Electric Newspapers, a series of open source sample releases that blurred the sampling CD concept with a stream of consciousness listening experience. Material from the Electric Newspaper series of releases (there are six in total, but only four have been released) is mostly taken from the CDs PTV released with Thrasher along with contributors such as Skinny Puppy and other notable musical allies of this time. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Skinny Puppy is a prominent industrial band, formed in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1982. ...

The original motivation for the Electric Newspaper series was to ensure that the PTV sample files were archived after the loss of the entire PTV sampling library in the dramatic five alarm fire at the Houdini Mansion on Laurel Canyon in Hollywood while PTV was on tour. This fire, which burned down the 18,000 sq foot mansion, left P-Orridge in the intensive care unit at Cedar Sinai hospital with life-threatening injuries after he (along with members of the band Love and Rockets ) jumped from their bedroom windows to escape the flames. Results of this event sent P-Orridge on a two-year health sabbatical to recover, during which he was involved in a million dollar lawsuit against Rick Rubin, who owned the Houdini Mansion. P-Orridge won the case, but was left with a metal plate and eight screws in his permanently disabled and reconstructed arm. Laurel Canyon can refer to several things: Laurel Canyon is a 2002 American drama movie, written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. ... Love and Rockets may refer to: Love and Rockets (comics) Love and Rockets (band) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Frederick Jay Rubin (born March 10, 1963 in Lido Beach, New York) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American record producer. ...

In 1998 P-Orridge announced that he primarily wanted to move into spoken word and turned to focus on Thee Majesty with musical lineup of Larry Thrasher and Bryin Dall. Thee Majesty continues to perform to large halls and galleries in Europe playing improvised sound sculpture to mostly improvised spoken word and they released a CD called "Time's Up" up 1999. Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson February 22, 1950) is an English performer, musician, writer and artist. ...

In 2005, the Voiceprint record label in England re-released several older Psychic TV and Genesis P-Orridge albums under the name Thee Majesty, and also a new album recorded with the band Cotton Ferox. Also, a 2005 release "Mary Never Wanted Jesus" credited to Genesis P-Orridge & Thee Majesty featured archive PTV material alongside new Thee Majesty recordings. PTV, as a rock entity, had a "final show" in 1999 at The Royal Festival Hall in London. This show also marked the end of P-Orridge's exile from the UK. The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London, England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

2003-Present

An all new lineup of Psychic TV returned to the stage in 2003 with a concert in New York under the guise of PTV3. In September 2004, an extensive tour of Europe (covering 16 countries) and North America was launched. 2005 saw the band return to the studio, recording their first album in over 10 years (P-Orridge also spent 2005 working with Throbbing Gristle on what will be their first album in over 25 years). Additionally, a few more dates were performed in Europe throughout the year. In January 2006, the new PTV album was announced by P-Orridge on his website. Hell is Invisible...Heaven is Her/E, the album, was recorded in New York and features Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) guesting on some tracks. Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) is a British experimental music and industrial music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ... Nick Zinner (born Nicholas Joseph Zinner on 1974-12-08) is the guitarist for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. ... Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy Award nominated New York City-based rock band. ... Gibson Jerome Gibby Haynes (born 1957) is an American musician, radio personality, painter and the lead singer of the group Butthole Surfers. ... Butthole Surfers are an American punk band, founded by lead vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas, in 1981. ...

P-Orridge describes it as "Dark Side of the Moon for the 21st century". Release is expected mid-Spring (Northern Hemisphere) 2007 and it will be followed by a tour that may last up to 18 months. [2] In February 2007 Side-Line announced the news that the Fee Lee record label has released a Psychic TV live album, "Live in Russia".^[1] Concerts across the UK have been announced for 2006 (Sheffield, Birmingham and London) as well as Brussels, Amsterdam and Moscow. The line-up is: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - Vocals / Noise bass; Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge - Samples; Morrison Edley (Toilet Boys) - Drums; Alice Genese (Candy Ass / Pretty Boys) - Bass; David Max (HIT) - Guitars; Markus Aurelius Cirkus Maximus Dangerous Fabulous Persson - Keyboards; and Zef Noi$e - Electric Violin. This article is about the Pink Floyd album. ... // Side-line Magazine was started in 1989 by two university students David Noiret and Seba Dolimont who noticed that there was a distinctive lack of media interest in the independent music scene, and especially a lack of coverage in the darkwave, dark electro, endzeit, gothic, gothic metal and electro industrial...

The 2006 shows included an video light show by Sterile Cowboys & Co. (a.k.a. Nicolas Jenkins) -- three screens of heavily overlaid video with the middle screen overlaid another layer of "analog" projections including moiréd overlays and liquid and oil effects. Videos from the upcoming album and DVDs were previewed as works in process. Much of the video work revolves around Breyer P-Orridges exploration of the 'pandrogyne'. P-Orridge and Mo Edley performed a DJ set and were interviewed on New York's station WNYU on Tuesday September 5, (YEAR?). PTV3 performed several songs on WFMU in Jersey City on Thursday September 7. The band were interviewed as well. This was the first time ever Psychic TV had played live on air. To inaugurate the release of HELL IS INVISIBLE...HEAVEN IS HER/E, PTV3 hosted a five night residency in September 2006 at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA, followed by the above mentioned tour. WNYU is a non-commercial radio station owned and operated by New York University. ... is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... WFMU-FM is a listener supported, noncommercial radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting at 91. ... The skyline of Jersey City, as seen from Lower New York Bay. ... is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Bed-Stuy, and Bushwick. ...

Main article: Psychic TV live

Psychic TV have performed with an ever-changing and eclectic selection of musicians. Live releases account for about half of Psychic TV's discography and with one series of live releases they released fourteen live albums in eighteen months, enough to earn them a record in the Guinness Book of World Records.[3] Concert tours for the electronic music group Psychic TV. // (year ?)-10-05 USA(?) concert poster 1983-11-04 concert poster, the show was rescheduled to Nov. ... The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...

Discography

Main article: Psychic TV discography

Discography for the music group Psychic TV. // Force The Hand Of Chance (LP, cassette) (1982) Themes (LP) (1982) Dreams Less Sweet (LP, cassette) (1983) A Pagan Day (LP, 12 picture disc) (1984) Those Who Do Not (2x12) (1984) Mouth Of The Night (CD, LP, 12 picture disc) (1985) Themes 2...

See also

• Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth
• Thee Majesty
• Splinter Test
• Throbbing Gristle
• Coil

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References

External links

• Genesis P-orridge.com
• Genesis P-Orridge TV Interview on VBS.tv
• Psychic TV History
• Master Musicians of Joujouka
• Alex Fergusson
• Official Psychic TV myspace
• Freenoise - Promoter