IRCD02
ICA, London. 18th Oct 1976.
Stereo. TG rating 8/10.

TG perform at the opening party for the Prostitution exhibition. Supporting acts - punk band Chelsea (as 'LSD') and a stripper. Audience of 600-800. Line/mic recording. Some parts out of sync (left that way intentionally). Genesis P-Orridge - bass guitar, electric violin & vocals, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson - tapes, trumpet & processing, Cosey Fanni Tutti - lead guitar, effects & cornet, Chris Carter - keyboards, rhythms & mix.

Track One (60'00")

00'00" Introduction, "Music from the Death Factory"
01'44" Very Friendly
17'42" We Hate You Little Girls
19'35" Instrumental
23'45" Slug Bait
28'04" Dead Ed
32'05" Zyklon B Zombie, "Zyklon B, it's a bit like Coca-Cola but it's worse for your teeth"
40'17" (Recording ends)

IRCD03
Air Gallery, London. 6th July 1976.
Hat Fair, Winchester. 21st August 1976.
Mono. TG rating 5/10.

Track One - Air Gallery (38'28")

TG's debut appearance. Performance art series 6th-9th July at the Air Gallery 125-129 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, curated by Genesis P- Orridge. TG performed in one room while the audience listened from the next.

00'00" Instrumental
38'23" (Recording ends)

Track Two - Hat Fair (21'31")

At the Attic Theatre, Broadway for the Winchester Hat Fair. Audience of 170.

00'00" Dead Ed
02'00" No Two Ways
07'40" Very Friendly
16'08" (Performance ends)
17'23" (Recording ends)

IRCD04
Nag's Head, High Wycombe. 11th February 1977.
Mono. TG Rating 5/10.

"I make no apology for saying I am a lover of heavy, noisy, jarring ear-splitting music, I'm young and strong, and I can take it. But I had a job to keep my pint in my stomach as I listened to the muck which was Throbbing Gristle's claim to fame... Our photographer gave up early. I wish I'd followed him. But I waited, and watched dumbfounded as Cosey Fanni Tutti bared both her chest and her ignorance of music, and Genesis poured artificial blood over his head then spat it onto the stage. At least he did stop playing for a while - but only to shout obscenities at the audience and to throw a table across the hall. Then he invited half a dozen youngsters from the cat-calling and jeering audience onto the stage and handed them the instruments. They sounded better then Throbbing Gristle, even though they couldn't play a note. The landlord, Mick Fitzgibbon, told me that the youngsters were about ready to throw Genesis P-Orridge, plus his equipment, bodily through the door. 'I'll never have them back here,' he said. 'The kids were threatening to punch the promoter and I don't blame them.'" [Keith Baldock, Bucks Free Press, Midweek Issue]

"After thirty minutes all the faults of the hasty equipment erection, mingled with the frustrations of the band, came to a head. Cosey's lead guitar ceased to exist. The fault could not be located quickly and rectified... Cosey took the only course open to her; she strolled off stage and sat in the audience... The position on stage was becoming impossible. Chris walked off and headed for the toilet. Gen was left alone on stage, still plucking at his dominant throbbing bass guitar, adding vocals whilst Sleazy... was having trouble off-stage slotting in tapes and loops. The set-up was crumbling... Some of the audience, particularly around the bar, were becoming restless. Gen met the challenge. Still pounding his bass, stretching the lead, he climbed into the audience and jeered, insulted and provoked the audience, collectively and individually, concentrating on the restless members, beckoning one of them to accompany him onto the stage. Once there Gen transferred the bass to him and left the 'musician' pounding away in his turn, before himself jumping back into the audience, running amok, overturning a table and its beer mugs, insulting and provoking others to take the stage." [Paul Buck, eyewitness]

Track One (60'00")

00'00" Introduction
02'29" Very Friendly
21'36" We Hate You
24'00" Instrumental "You'll notice for the next hour I play one string."
31'51" Slug Bait
36'54" Instrumental "You can't have anarchy and play music, it's not the same thing."
39'33" Zyklon B Zombie
47'32" 'If I was a Little Baby' with members of the audience
48'24" Wall of Sound "What's it about?" "Not an awful lot."
53'23" (Performance ends) "That sounds better!"
59'58" (Recording ends)

IRCD05
Brighton Polytechnic. 26th March 1977.
Stereo. TG rating 3/10 (Fanatics only).

'Last Exit' - TG's answer to the Sex Pistols 'God Save the Queen'. Opens with a sampled American commentary on nuclear survival and a conversation over a two-way radio.

"Fuck off / Fuck off cunt... / And then he hit me with a brick... / Right under the poster / And I fell in the mud / I said 'Don't kill me' / Then he hit me with a brick / Then he hit me with a brick again / Then the blood went out of my cheeks / Then the blood hit the ground and it mingled with the mud / The blood and the mud mingling under the poster / And I looked up at the poster / I looked up and saw the poster / It was a picture of Prince Philip / Prince Philip was fucking the Queen / Prince Philip was fucking the Queen / And the Queen was going 'Again, do it again, Philip, please Philip, fuck me Philip'... / Got on the Central Line / Came up to these two kids / And the two kids kicked me in the teeth / I spat out three teeth / And I looked up / And I looked up at the poster... / And I looked at Prince Philip / And he was kicking me in the teeth / And the Queen was saying 'Fuck me again Philip'... / And he said 'Don't hit me with that brick. Don't suck my prick / Poster / Fuck off / Fuck off."

The voice used on Slug Bait is that of a young Canadian killer, who was serving life for murdering a young girl whilst he was still only a teenager.

"The final track is thee voice of thee DJ yelling at thee AUDIENCE, part of whom had attached thee PA and other audience members to try and stop TG playing anymore. A minor riot. Thee DJ liked TG and is abusing thee drunks. After a couple of minutes he put an Iggy Pop record on to try and pacify everyone." [Genesis P-Orridge, Nanavesh 3, February 1982]

Track One (47'23")

00'00" Zyklon B Zombie
07'38" Last Exit
16'17" Slug Bait
23'10" Maggot Life
32'09" Mary Jane/Record Contract "Just like the Bay City Rollers, The Rolling Stones and Johnny Rotten, all our songs sound the same"
41'47" 'Tesco Disco' "If my amplifier was loud enough, I'd make sure it killed everyone in the room including me"
42'31" One Note One Life One Purpose "I just want to fuck you all up the bum - anything to wake you up"

Track Two (12'36")

00'00" One Note One Life One Purpose (cont.)"Oh fuck I've gone out of tune"
04'30" 'A Load of Fucking Wankers'
09'12" (Recording ends)

IRCD06
Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. 7th May 1977.
Stereo. TG rating 8/10.

Audience of 100. TG were booked to give a lecture on art. Most of the audience left before the end. Some of the performance was filmed on 16mm black and white film and appears at the beginning and end of the film, "After Cease to Exist".

Track One (31'31")

00'00" Industrial Introduction
01'06" Forced Entry
10'31" National Affront
17'37" Instrumental
21'10" Instrumental
29'02" Maggot Death

Track Two (28'28")

00'00" Instrumental
07'04" Slug Bait
15'53" Instrumental
27'09" (Recording ends)

IRCD07
Rat Club, Pindar, London. 22nd May 1977.
Stereo. TG rating 6/10.

Audience of approximately 150. This club took place weekly in the Pindar of Wakefield Pub near Kings Cross and was run by Brian "Rat" Davies. "£1.30" was the price of admission that evening. The film "After Cease to Exist" was shown for the first time in public.

Track One (47'27")

00'00" Introduction
03'58" Tesco Disco
07'10" Fuck Off Cunt / National Affront / Record Contract
15'24" £1.30
19'30" Wolverhampton
21'55" Goldilocks and the Three Fingers
26'18" Instrumental
34'49" Instrumental
40'16" 'The Quiet Section'"What does 'fuck off' mean?"
43'00" Instrumental

Track Two (12'33")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
03'59" Maggot Death
11'10" "Thankyou very much."
12'33" (Recording ends)

IRCD08
Highbury Roundhouse, London. 29 September 1977.
Binaural Stereo. TG rating 6/10.

'Hit By A Rock': "It's about transistor radios in the morning, kids sat in the kitchen trying to eat their breakfast with Radio One on or whatever and comparing that to being belted over the head with a brick... It's a stupid song, deliberately stupid and crass and it's the nearest to a rock riff we'll ever manage, complete with stops and starts in the middle to prove we can all stop together, except it disintegrates... then it finishes with me yelling about if you don't really like our records, that's just too bad..." [Genesis P-Orridge, Dirt]

Track One (32'30")

00'00" Introduction / Hit By A Rock
07'06" Instrumental
13'18" Blood on the Floor
22'04" Instrumental
25'35" Instrumental

Track Two (27'30")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
01'53" Instrumental
04'31" Instrumental
09'00" Instrumental
15'05" Instrumental
18'40" You Me Here
26'56" (Performance ends) "Well I thought it was rather nice actually. I've come with my husband and ten kids."

IRCD09
Winchester Art School. 11th November 1977.
Binaural Stereo. TG rating 7/10.

Audience of 120 art students. 'A Nod and a Wank' ends with a tape of TV 'true crime' reporter Shaw Taylor telling the story of a one-day-old baby girl: "Her body was found in Grange Wood Park, Thornton Heath, wrapped in a newspaper and placed in a 'Jubilee' plastic carrier bag. It was left in the ladies' lavatory sometime during Monday 20 June, that's over three weeks ago. The child had been strangled."

Track One (31'26")

00'00" A Nod and a Wank
08'41" Feeling Critical
17'00" Instrumental
25'42" Dead Head

Track Two (28'33")

00'00" Dead Head (cont.)
07'38" Instrumental
14'45" Instrumental
24'41" (Performance ends)

IRCD10
Rat Club, Valentino Rooms, Bedford Corner Hotel, London. 17th December 1977.
Binaural Stereo. TG rating 8/10.

Second appearance as guests of the 'Rat Club', now relocated at the Valentino Rooms, Bedford Corner Hotel, Bayley Street. Audience of 270. PA system set up on tables covered in red cloth and lit by spotlights, like electrical hardware in a high street shop. Over-sized Tesco's shopping bag next to PA and four foot wooden TG flash sign behind, recently constructed by Monte Cazazza. 'Urge to Kill', about the American necrophiliac mass murderer Edmund Emil Kemper, was only ever performed once.

Track One (28'11")

00'00" White Christmas
00'23" Tesco Disco
05'28" Knife in My Side
12'44" Instrumental
14'26" Instrumental
23'42" Urge to Kill

Track Two (31'49")

00'00" Urge to Kill (cont.)
06'06" Assume Power Focus "All I want you to do is to go out and kill. ASSUME POWER FOCUS!"
13'12" Wall of Sound
24'57" (Recording ends)

IRCD11
Brighton Polytechnic. 25th February 1978.
Binaural Stereo. TG rating 7/10.

"Thee audience were mainly people who had the album or had heard it on the radio. They knew far more what kind of sound to expect. It was about one-third thee audience last time we were there, butter this time they came to listen by choice. And we played and at thee end we all were smiling and very happy with what we played, we got a 10 minute encore. We didn't do one, butter don't think that is an endictment." [Genesis P-Orridge, letter to Jonas Almquist, March 1978]

Track One (31'34")

00'00" E-Coli
11'40" Anthony
26'04" Instrumental
29'30" Why Does Carol Eat Brown Bread?

Track Two (28'25")

00'00" Why Does Carol Eat Brown Bread? (cont.)
06'18" Instrumental
08'04" Blood on the Floor
12'30" 'August Bank Holiday'
16'20" He's My Friend
20'21" Wall of Sound
28'15" (Performance ends) "MORE! Do you want more? Stamp your feet!"

IRCD12
Architectural Association, London. 3rd March 1978.
Binaural Stereo. TG rating 7/10

TG played within a cage in the central courtyard. From here the audience could listen through the open windows of the AA building, but not see them. For the audience away from the windows it was completely the opposite: the band could be seen performing via video cameras and monitors, but they could not be heard.

Track One (46'08")

00'00" Instrumental
11'30" Instrumental
19'59" Dead Ed
27'27" Instrumental

Track Two (13'52")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
02'54" 'August Bank Holiday'*
06'20" Wall of Sound

* Glass smashing and shouting can be heard in the background.

IRCD13
Goldsmiths College, London. 18th May 1978.
Stereo. TG rating 9/10.

"We thought it was our best ever live gig, only about 130 people came, butter they were all TG fans who like what we do and wanted to take in thee information. So it was like all of us playing together, a group experience with no big deals, no hype, was so relaxed it was as natural as having a piss." [Genesis P-Orridge, letter to Jonas Almquist, 1978]

Track One (32'02")

00'00" IBM
01'27" Instrumental
11'22" It's Always the Way
16'59" Hamburger Lady, first version
24'48" Dead on Arrival, first version

Track Two (27'57")

00'00" Dead on Arrival (cont.)
02'06" 'August Bank Holiday'
06'54" Instrumental
15'52" Wall of Sound
24'53" United (prerecorded outro)
25'43" (Recording ends)

IRCD14
Industrial Training College, Wakefield. 1st July 1978
Stereo. TG rating 9/10.

Track One (31'38")

00'00" IBM/Family Death
06'55" Cabaret Voltaire
10'25" Industrial Muzak
18'58" Hamburger Lady
26'44" Instrumental
30'09" Slug Bait

Track Two (28'21")

00'00" Slug Bait (cont.)
03'13" 'August Bank Holiday'
06'24" Mother Spunk
12'48" Instrumental
13'38" Five Knuckle Shuffle
21'25" Whorle of Sound

IRCD15
Film Maker's Co-Op, London. 6th July 1978.
Stereo. TG rating 7/10.

"We were playing for free to about 300 people and halfway through a couple of the Slits and a couple of the Raincoats and a girl called Annette Weatherman (who it turned out is Robin Bank's girlfriend) all came in completely drunk and pilled out of their heads and the first thing they did was go to Robert Rental's 4 year old son and hit him in the face and pick him up and swing him about, then they went up to this 15 year old TG fan and started slapping him and he didn't know what to do - them being girls and all - then they picked up chairs, threw whiskey bottles at Sleazy's head. And this was immediately, not as a response to what they'd seen or heard... they pushed over some speakers on my foot and I was getting angry by then. They were obviously going to see how far they could go, so I just stood on a monitor on the front, undid the strap of my bass and held it by the neck like an axe, making it clear that anything else that happened was going to be dealt with but they came back and tried to pull all the wires out of the amps, which could have blown the whole lot, so I just took a swing at the nearest one, and flattened her. It was Annette Weatherman, and it was the first and only time Chris ever hit anyone in his life. He was so annoyed that as she got up he jumped down and punched her right back down. And it worked. They stopped. And we switched everything off." [Genesis P-Orridge, Slash, September 1979]

Track One (31'51")

00'00" IBM
04'32" New 'After Cease to Exist' soundtrack
09'34" Hamburger Lady
17'26" Instrumental
18'10" Instrumental
26'47" Mother Spunk

Track Two (28'09")

00'00" Mother Spunk (cont.)
00'03" Instrumental
06'48" Five Knuckle Shuffle
21'26" (Recording ends)

IRCD16
Cryptic One Club, London. 11th November 1978.
Stereo. TG rating 7/10.

Under Trinity Church, Bishops Bridge Road, Paddington. Audience of 400. Supported by Metabolist, Robert Rental, The Normal and Cabaret Voltaire.

'Whistling Song' - "It's always the same... you do everything you can, it's always the same at the end of it, go home and there's nobody there, doors open, cats look at you, no food, muesli for breakfast. [Screams.] Could be different next time. Maybe after Christmas, maybe after January the 4th, maybe if you sit in the bed long enough watching telly it's OK, even if the picture goes."

"I'd gotten quite paranoid for various reasons. I was quite convinced that that was probably going to be the last gig we'd ever play. And I decided to make it the last gig. I took 250 Valium and 50 Mogodon tablets I'd saved up and 100 Stellarli (Steroids)... Then we went and played at the Crypt. We insisted on playing first just to be awkward because we knew that there would be a lot of people who would come late so that they could see us at the end. I only remember fifteen seconds... I can remember someone yelling 'It's not loud enough.' And that's when I started playing the guitar with my foot, then screaming 'Is that loud enough!' That's when I got the light and started shining it in their eyes in the hope it would blind the bastards whoever they were... [The band] didn't know I'd taken those pills. I actually wasn't that differen than I often get... They must have sussed there was something wrong 'cos they took me round the back and sat me in a little chair. 'You just stay there'... I woke up in intensive care." [Genesis P-Orridge]

Track One (45'39")

00'00" Introduction "Tonight is Family Night"
01'39" Whistling Song
09'25" Tesco Disco (Industrial Muzak)
16'00" Instrumental
21'32" Instrumental "Is that loud enough?!"
33'48" E-Coli / Hometime
42'22" Instrumental

Track Two (14'20")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
05'57" High Note

IRCD17
Centro Iberico, London. 21st January 1979.
Stereo. TG rating 8/10.

Audience of 180, at a large derelict squat in Notting Hill. Organised by George Valls and his anarchist friends.

"Just as we were going to start, I said to Sleazy, 'What do you want me to sing about today?' And he said 'Persuasion'. So I said, 'OK'. And after about ten minutes I decided I had a good backing to 'Persuasion' and I started to write the lyrics. None of the others knew what the song was because we'd never done it before. And I didn't say 'we're now doing 'Persuasion', I just started singing about persuasion and they figured out what to play. That's how most of the songs get written." [Genesis P-Orridge]

"We decided to do it on a Sunday afternoon, as it was the least commercial time to play. It was really cold so we built bonfires inside. We were really surprised when almost exactly as we were about to begin there was this massive queue in the freezing cold outside, right around the building and out into this big Victorian school yard. We decided to put the fires out in case it was dangerous. It turned out quite crowded and the place filled up with choking smoke and steam. People who went there said it was one of the most intense atmospheres they'd experienced and that you could never recapture it. It seemed post-apocalypse. It summed up and decoded the whole of civilisation's collapse, and this was a tribal ritual that only those initiated would understand. It was in a sense so completely meaningless that it was very potent. That was the day we did 'Five Knuckle Shuffle' for the first time, our first real deconstruction of words, gibberish." [Genesis P-Orridge]

Track One (46'42")

00'00" Introduction
01'16" Instrumental
09'19" Persuasion, first version
13'45" Instrumental
15'04" Instrumental
21'18" What a Day
34'01" Instrumental
36'40" Instrumental
45'09" Five Knuckle Shuffle

Track Two (13'17")

00'00" Five Knuckle Shuffle (cont.)
07'56" Wall of Sound
12'51" (Performance ends)*

* The beginning of 'Dancing Queen' by Abba, and an unclear voice, possibly Genesis can be heard for about 30 seconds.

IRCD18
Ajanta Cinema, Derby. 12 April 1979.
Stereo. TG rating 9/10.

Audience of 280. 'After Cease to Exist' shown.

Track One (30'35")

00'00" Introduction
00'30" Weapon Training
02'18" Instrumental
08'46" Eeh Aah Oooh
13'00" Convincing People
25'32" Hamburger Lady "An old favourite we hope you'll enjoy." 29'56" Instrumental

Track Two (29'24")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
06'05" Chat Up
07'17" What a Day
16'49" Persuasion
21'08" Five Knuckle Shuffle

IRCD19
Now Society, Sheffield University. 25th April 1979.
Stereo. TG rating 8/10.

Supported by They Must Be Russians.

Track One (29'45")

00'00" Weapon Training
01'47" Instrumental
08'51" Convincing People
19'13" Hamburger Lady
25'40" Instrumental

Track Two (30'14")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
01'40" Chat Up "Why is not the PA louder?"
07'44" What a Day
13'27" Persuasion
19'00" Five Knuckle Shuffle
29'20" (Performance ends)
30'14" (Recording ends)

IRCD20
The Factory, The Russell Club, Royce Road, Manchester. 19th May, 1979.
Stereo. TG rating 10/10.

Track One (29'48")

00'00" Weapon Training "We're Throbbing Gristle ... from Dallas, Texas."
01'57" See You Are
09'20" Convincing People
18'54" Hamburger Lady
25'55" Instrumental

Track Two (30'11")

00'00" His Arm Was Her Leg "A little extra song for Manchester."
05'36" What a Day
16'13" Persuasion
21'22" Five Knuckle Shuffle / Wall of Sound.

IRCD21
Guild Hall, Northampton. 26th May 1979.
Binaural. TG rating 7/10.

Supported by Bauhaus 1919.

Track One (29'02")

00'00" Wall of Sound
01'36" No Bones
09'52" Ice Cool Down
14'27" They Make No Say
23'50" Hamburger Lady

Track Two (30'57")

00'00" What a Day
07'48" Saw Mill
18'46" (Recording ends)

IRCD22
YMCA, London. 3rd August 1979.
Binaural Stereo.

Audience of 400. Part of four day festival promoted by Final Solution also featuring Joy Division, The Teardop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Red Crayola and Scritti Politti. TG played at the Prince of Wales Conference Centre with Rema Rema and Cabaret Voltaire. The group wore all-white outfits and had ultra-violet lights on stage.

"We glowed white like angels; nice angels of light." [Genesis P- Orridge]

Track One (28'43")

00'00" Instrumental
07'48" Instrumental
10'51" Convincing People
18'03" Instrumental
19'43" Hamburger Lady
25'16" Still Walking, first version

Track Two (31'16")

01'48" Persuasion
07'28" What a Day
14'12" Instrumental
18'05" Five Knuckle Shuffle
26'35" Wall of Sound
28'05" (Recording Ends)

IRCD24
Butlers Wharf, London. 23rd December 1979.
Binaural Stereo.

Limited edition (300 copies) of Industrial Records black diary given away to audience.

Track One (31'35")

00'00" Introduction "Hello? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5."
00'37" Gloria Leonard
07'24" Six Six Sixties
11'30" An Old Man Smiled
19'46" Instrumental
28'48" Instrumental

Track Two (28'24")

00'00" Anal Sex
07'36" Still Walking *
12'58" Don't Do What You're Told, Do What You Think *
21'55" Wall of Sound/The First Noel/Painless Childbirth +
25'59" "Throbbing Gristlemas."
26'57" (Recording ends)

* One of these songs is referred to as 'Chariot & Galley' on original cassette. They are titled 'Still Walking' and 'Don't Do What You're Told...' on all other cassettes.

+ 'Painless Childbirth' - from a Genesis P-Orridge letter regarding the track titles for the Heathen Earth LP. (See the Brainwashed TG website.)

IRCD25
Fan Club, Brannigans, Leeds. 24th February 1980.
Binaural Stereo.

Supported by Monte Cazazza and Clock DVA.

Track One (29'58")

00'00" Introduction
00'10" Cornets *
05'20" Six Six Sixties / An Old Man Smiled
11'30" Subhuman
22'18" The World is a War Film
28'40" "To be effective in England..."+
29'29" Something Came Over Me

Track Two (30'01")

00'00" Something Came Over Me (cont.)
09'32" Still Walking "Bit boring!"
13'03" Instrumental
15'15" Don't Do What You're Told, Do What You Think
26'09" Painless Childbirth
27'33" (Performance ends) "Thanks very much, in a few minutes we'll have Monte Cazazza..."
28'50" "That was Throbbing Gristle ... this is something else."
29'03" (Recording ends)

* This frequent introductory track is named 'Cornets' in the Heathen Earth G P-O letter.

+ This is the speech read over 'After Cease to Exist' on the Heathen Earth album.

NOTE: IRC26 (Scala Cinema) was included in the original cassette version of TG24. Some copies of the CD version contain IRCD29 (Goldsmith's College) instead of IRCD26, while some contain both, making a total of twenty-five CDs.

IRCD26
Scala Cinema, London. 29th February 1980.
Binaural Stereo.

All night 'leap year' event, supported by Monte Cazazza and Leather Nun. Films played by Kenneth Anger and William Burroughs.

Track One (30'22")

00'00" Cornets
05'54" An Old Man Smiled
12'25" Subhuman
18'46" Heathen Earth
25'41" Instrumental

Track Two (29'38")

00'00" Instrumental (cont.)
00'24" The World is a War Film
06'50" 'Negative Ion Generator'
09'22" Something Came Over Me
18'06" Instrumental
18'46" Don't Do What You're Told, Do What You Think
29'03" Painless Childbirth