/ ----//--- ///// ----//--- / ---------------------------------------- Twenty Four Hours of Throbbing Gristle A Listener's Guide - .TXT VERSION (Including 'TG+') ---------------------------------------- By Chris 'Flatline' c_nonplus@hotmail.com nonplus.desensitised.net suggestions and corrections welcome updated 10th August 2005 --- DISCLAIMER: Most of the information presented here is compiled from 'Wreckers of Civilisation' by Simon Ford and from the Throbbing Gristle section of the 'Brainwashed' (www.brainwashed.com/tg) and 'Axis' (www.brainwashed.com/axis) websites. This document was originally created for my own reference, when trying to recall which tracks or events were on each CD. I am not claiming that I have done anything more than compile the information and add approximate track times and titles. These titles are either from officical or bootleg recordings, or are a reference to events or dialogue occuring on the recordings. I recommend using your browser's 'find' function to jump to the particular performance you are interested in. / ----//--- ///// ----//--- / 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The following recordings were not included in the original cassette version of TG24. IRCD29 was included with the CD version, while IRCDs 30 - 43 constitute the 'TG+' CD boxset. ---------------------------------------------------------------- IRCD29 Goldsmith's College, London. 13th March 1980. Track One Binaural Stereo, Track Two Stereo. Track One (31'21") 00'00" Introduction "We'd like central heating, but if you jump up and down you'll keep warm." 00'42" Cornets 06'38" An Old Man Smiled 13'29" Russ 16'40" Subhumans 23'35" Heathen Earth 29'18" Instrumental Track Two (28'39") 00'00" Instrumental (cont.) 04'31" World is a War Film 12'11" Don't Do What You're Told, Do What You Think "I've got rhythm, I've got music..." 26'39" Painless Childbirth 27'26" (Performance ends) "Is it still running? --- IRCD30 Oundle Public School. 16th March 1980. Binaural Stereo. A boarder had convinced his music teacher to book TG, who apparently sounded like John Cage. Audience consisted almost entirely of boys aged between 8 and 16. The gig was recorded by Stan Bingo and released by Industrial Videos as Throbbing Gristle Live at Oundle School. Supported by Monte Cazazza. Track One (29'30") 00'00" Introduction 01'28" Cornets 06'20" An Old Man Smiled 14'20" Subhumans 18'46" Heathen Earth "When's the music?" 26'57" Something Came Over Me Track Two (27'56") 00'00" Something Came Over Me (cont.) "...an awful lot of toilet rolls... have you all had a shit?" 04'10" The World is a War Film 09'40" 'Oundle Public Schoolboys- England is a Toilet' 11'00" Don't Do What You're Told, Do What You Think / Wall of Sound 21'51" (Performance ends) "Show us your legs! --- IRCD33 Student Union, Sheffield University. 10th June 1980. Binaural Stereo. Supported by Cabaret Voltaire. Track One (31'15") 00'00" Introduction 00'47" Punished 10'00" Heathen Earth 16'25" Strangers in the Night 18'10" Instrumental 24'38" Tortured Smiles 31'12" We Said No Track Two (23'53") 00'00" We Said No (cont.) 05'23" Flesheaters 22'43" (Performance ends) --- IRCD36 SO36 Club, Berlin, Germany. 7th November 1980. Stereo. "Just before we went on, [Tutti] said, 'Discipline' and we did it. Just made it up. And I liked the fact that there are actually records of us inventing something; you are actually there when it was actually happening." [Genesis P-Orridge, Re/Search no. 4/5, 1982] "A short high frequency 'buzz like' sound can sometimes be heard during these performances. This sound is present on the original tapes and was most likely caused by [the] presence of a nearby digital PCM machine during the recordings." [Chris Carter, TG+ notes, August 2003] Track titles from Funeral in Berlin. Some instrumentals on IRCD36/37 may have one of the following titles: Stained by Dead Horses / Zero's Death / Nomon / Raudive Bunker Experiment / Denial of Death / Funeral in Berlin / Trade Deficit. Any help on this appreciated. Track One (30'37") 00'00" Introduction 00'52" Instrumental 10'29" Instrumental 16'37" An Old Man Smiled 25'06" Trained Condition of Obedience Track Two (44'24") 00'00" Trained Condition of Obedience (cont.) 01'43" Instrumental 10'36" Something Came Over Me "A song for people who wank." 21'04" 'Church Music' 26'42" Instrumental 33'20" Discipline 42'15" Wall of Sound 44'04" (Performance ends) --- IRCD37 SO36 Club, Berlin, Germany, 8th November 1980. Stereo. "A short high frequency 'buzz like' sound can sometimes be heard during these performances. This sound is present on the original tapes and was most likely caused by [the] presence of a nearby digital PCM machine during the recordings." "There were technical problems during the taping of this performance which resulted in a shorter than usual 48 minute recording." [Chris Carter, TG+ notes, August 2003] Track titles from Funeral in Berlin. Some instrumentals on IRCD36/37 may have one of the following titles: Stained by Dead Horses / Zero's Death / Nomon / Raudive Bunker Experiment / Denial of Death / Funeral in Berlin / Trade Deficit. Any help on this appreciated. Track One (20'29") 00'00" Introduction 00'40" Cornets 04'16" Instrumental 13'04" An Old Man Smiled 20'28" (Recording ends) Track Two (27'35") 00'00" Instrumental 02'39" Instrumental 05'48" Instrumental 13'32" Something Came Over Me (cuts out 14'56" to 15'30") 19'00" Discipline 27'20" (Performance ends) --- IRCD38 Kunsthofschule, Frankfurt, Germany. 10th November 1980. Stereo. "At 26 minutes this recording is interrupted by a member of the audience jumping onto the stage and pouring a bottle of wine onto Chris Carter's equipment... which resulted in a shorter than usual performance." [Chris Carter, TG+ notes, August 2003] Track One (28'47") 00'00" Introduction 03'06" Cornets 09'00" Strangers in the Night 16'44" Instrumental 20'21" Something Came Over Me 25'53" 'The Wine Incident' Track Two (13'50") 00'00" Discipline 11'43" Wall of Sound 13'02" (Performance ends) "Das ist the end." "There's another film in just a few minutes, enough time to have a piss in the meantime." --- IRCD39 Rafters, Manchester. 4th December 1980. Binaural Stereo. Acccording to flyer, Eric Random supported and films by COUM and Anthony Balch were shown. Some reports state that Random did not perform. Track titles from Rafters: Throbbing Gristle Psychic Rally. Track One (31'17") 00'00" Illuminated 666 00'31" Betrayed 05'16" Womb of Corruption 12'51" Very Friendly 21' 50" Something Come Over Me 28'12" Playground Track Two (30'38") 00'00" Playground (cont.) 05'16"Auschwitz 10'54" Devil's Gateway 15'47" Hastings 20'52" Discipline 29'18" (Performance ends) --- IRCD40 Heaven, London. 23rd Decmber 1980. Stereo. Christmas gig with A Certain Ratio and SPK. Performance was filmed by Derek Jarman and made into the 8 minute film 'Psychic Rally in Heaven'. Track titles from Beyond Jazz Funk. Track One (31'12") 00'00" Invocation "Hell in Heaven" 00'43" Summoning 07'35" Rite of Death 13'32" Persuasion 19'30" Still Walking 24'49" Eclipse (for Tanith) Track Two (29'29") 00'00" Murder of thee Abyss 05'42" Tokyo Summer 12'04" Spirits Flying 19'08" Discipline --- IRCD41 Lyceum, London. 8th Febnruary 1980. Stereo. Supported by Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and Z'ev and Non. Billed as the first major show of strength for the Industrial Movement. "I think that technology has been explored and the roots of blues music and slave music has been explored, and now we've done the Industrial music. We have to go beyond into where man meets space. I don't mean cosmic like Tangerine Dream, I mean inside the head." [Genesis P- Orridge, LBC radio interview , February 1981] "The mood was grey, industrial, considered, serious. The hall was full to bursting, while outside a ragin' preacher protested about the contents of proceedings indoors." [Dave Henderson, Once Upon a Time sleeve notes] "They wire things up as they go, they stuff the audience with their wares and it is wearing stuff. They can't keep their attention in one place for long enough. When they produce one of ther infrequent splays of exciting sound it seems to be a mistake; most of the time they are disengagingly trite. Their new single 'Discipline' sees people scurrying to the bar..." [Gavin Martin, NME, 14 February 1981] "It was the night Throbbing Gristle were finally defined passe by the young stylists." [Magnus Hirschfield, Sounds, 28 Fenruary, 1981] Track titles from Once Upon a Time. Track One (29'43") 00'00" Primal Church 12'13" Look Away 26'25" Endless Discipline * "What we need now... now that you've all relaxed a little bit, digested the hamburgers..." Track Two (26'07") 00'00" Endless Discipline (cont.) * * After 'Look Away', Once Upon A Time lists the following tracks: 'Endless Discipline', 'Discipline', 'Consummation' and 'Endless Discipline'. On the TG+ recording however 'Discipline' appears to be endless. Any help on this appreciated --- IRCD42 Veterans Auditorium, Los Angeles, USA. 22nd May 1981. Stereo. "In LA it was terrible. Everyone was going 'Can I have your autograph?' We could have just stood there for an hour and they would have thought it was great." [Cosey Fanni Tutti, Subvert] "I thought the LA gig was better then the San Francsico gig because it was total anarchy. The equipment didn't function correctly, it was almost like a wall of white noise. I found it very satisfying. It was so utterly abstract and pointless it truly was nihilistic." [Genesis P- Orridge] "Of the two tapes available from this performance, both suffered various degrees of distortion. This CD is a mix of the best and least distorted of each recording." [Chris Carter, TG+ notes, August 2003] Track titles from Dimensia in Excelsis. Track One (29'51") 00'00" Introduction "How do you do, IS IT LOUD ENOUGH YET?" 01'40" Dimensia 05'22" Scorched Earth 11'45" Tangible 13'43" Persuasion 19'34" Carnality 20'35" Marriage Carriage 29'34" Still Walking Track Two (28'41") 00'00" Still Walking (cont.) 05'32" Slam 14'39" Principa Disciplina/Forbidden --- IRCD43 Kezar Pavilion, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, USA. 29th May 1981. Binaural/Stereo (see note below). The 'last' live performance (until 16th May 2004). Supported by Church Police and Flipper, who played a 90-minute version of Subhuman. The venue was a basketball court by day, with a sprung floor, helping the audience of over a thousand bounce to the music. "San Francisco was appalling but funny. The best thing was the audience. All I remember as being exciing or interesting was the skinhead that gave me a kiss. That kiss and the way he responded was a fantastic moment. In Califorina to this day I meet people who say they were at that gig and they say how important it was for them." [Genesis P-Orridge, Subvert] "Two high quality recordings were available of this performance, on made using a binaural head, the other direct from the mixing desk. This CD is an exclusive mix combining both recordings. Also included is a previously unreleased track from the pre-performance sound check." [Chris Carter, TG+ notes, August 2003] Track One (29'51") 00'00" Introduction 00'25" Dead Souls 05'53" Guts on the Floor 12'56" Circle of Animals 18'22"Looking for the OTO 23'34" Vision and Voice 30'46" What A Day "I forgot the words to that song so I can't do it anymore." 31'23" Funeral Rites 37'19" Spirits Flying Track Two (23'57") 00'00" Spirits Flying (cont.) 00'10" Persuasion U.S.A. 07'37" Discipline 15'55" The Process 17'16" Discipline (reprise) 19'21" (Performance ends) "Thankyou and goodnight. That's the end of Throbbing Gristle" 20'18" (Recording ends) 20'27" Pre-performance sound check / ----//--- ///// ----//--- / ---------------------------- THE MISSION IS TERMINATED (?) ----------------------------