Soft Focus: Genesis P-Orridge Part 1 of 4

[MakkaPakka666]

wow, if that interviewer isn`t the creepiest sycophant ever. No wonder genesis is slightly on the defense

[samuelsixvids]

@MakkaPakka666 why the interviewer is a psycophat???

[PAULLONDEN]

@samuelsixvids .....because....;{}

[PAULLONDEN]

@MakkaPakka666 Yeah..the whole body language of that joker is cliché city galore.

he belongs in the Kukelheim museum though,as an endangered species.

Porridge was on the defence for quite another thing though, he was still unsure to take the same amount of botox in the lower lip,,,,;{}

[Salvac88]

fucking genius. that man is a genius. a fucking geniuos.

[checkoutmyplaylists]

Happy Birthday Genesis!

[skuzzbunny]

when is this?

[MrChrisHermes]

some folks are destined (doomed?) to live near the hurricanes eye-tis the nature of MAGICK-nice to see how its done. A role model, up there with MOORE MORRISON SPARE....

[rubster1206]

i really respect people like genesis because they don't mind doing interviews. They are not stuck up or scared what people think of them.

[crackropovic]

last person to speak to Ian Curtis ? You got his number Genesis ? Amazing if true !

[Marcoago]

@crackropovic Ian called Genesis

[Non594]

@crackropovic Ian got Geneis' number?!? Lucky Ian!

[fuckamericanidiot]

5:08 onwards....powerful stuff, i love how gripped the interviewer is

[XxBowieTipxX]

Genesis P-Orridge's pandrogyne is evidence of the New Aeon. Alister Crowley's "tendency to become...epicence".

[erictheviking871]

the perfection of the tv personalitie and entertainment con . parkinson for the industrial age .

[0pine0tron6000]

Who CAN listen to Joy Division without getting upset?

[mahound9]

Okay, can anyone corroborate what he's saying at 5:20 ? It doesn't sound like bullshit, but...

[claireobscure]

S/he's lovely.

[mavericdragon]

I didnt know he was a pal of Ian Curtis'. That gives me a new perspective on Genesis' ideas.

[chuxfm]

he was the last person to speak to ian curtis as well. ian rang him and sang down the phone before he hanged himself

[phrayzar]

He's really perfected that chav, medicated auntie look.

[trazeebarb]

why couldnt he have called the police when ian curtis phoned him. hmmm

[erictheviking871]

@trazeebarb yeah , hes talking bollocks . name dropping

[jhnm156]

Hmmmm,,,,. Sorry. TG is an innovative piece. I love the exploration of the outer reaches of what we think is music. But, I gotta say that when I see "Genesis" I see a lost poser. There is not much difference between him/her then a a circus clown.

[rogerca15]

about Ian that was crazy

[carrieluvv]

i only saw this person for the first time ina movie called "DIG" when he was a man and i thought he was amazing . the things he said made so much sense - and i didnt know he was changing

[BarflyBrookz]

Dude,don't fuck that one!hahaha

[MarxBakuninMe]

"legendery in the same way as Velvet Underground"

HAHAHA!!!

[meinLiebsterFeind]

good but perhaps a bit presumptuous :P

[amnodeidyet]

@meinLiebsterFeind I totally agree. S/he is prone to name dropping and the odd exagerrated claim (we all are) but s/he has done more than enough in her/his own right anyway without VU/Ian Curtis/Burroughs,connections, etc. GPO was also part of the birth of Acid House, no 'one' created it, it was and is a group dynamic. Just be proud of yourself GPO! We are!

[Jeffro321]

I think that the interviewer is Ian Svenonius of the band make up from D.C.

[AlexisNembrode]

that thing Genesis said about Curtis...Is it true? If it is, is incredible!

[seintzeit]

it's bullshit. but that's okay...

[thegyndy]

when was this fiolmed? the interviewer is dressed oike its 1971

[BuggedSatelite]

2006

[sockironer]

exactly what I thought,,he's 70's P-orridge is 90s,,wtf? how come you get thumbs down for this is beyong me

[ruithael]

Boy, genesis really has an abundant rack. But anyway, she's sweet, really.

[Jay0Uticano]

Woe to see the soft inside of post response with text aside the focus here as cuts appear the point of blah blah -isms, Cheers! (Create your own magic the fabric of Reality is becoming frayed and threadbare as hyper-media coverage is creating ripples in which we are all enveloped.) Thanks G.P.O.

[basslabs]

he looks like a nice looking morlok from the time machine...

[futuristfood]

si!! from space.!!!

[Wolviepayne]

We should all strive towards androgyne.

No?

[futuristfood]

si!

[thirdshift47]

I don't know,I adore Genesis,but being a black male,I want to remain a 'Tandrogyne.'lol

[Lovebug360]

He/She is kawaii desu fuk :3

[FallOfRome101189]

You should pick a language and stick to it.

[Ieshido]

S/He looks like Meg Ryan. Except he's a better interviewee by a factor of about a million.

[jocksilver7]

@Ieshido hahahahahaha!

[TimHailand]

Genesis is a really interesting PERSON - I dont think Genesis cares so much about male or female in terms of identity representation.

A good voice to have in this ever homogenizing world

[h8mekillme666]

he makes a really beautiful woman... :)

[nicademus666]

timelleb, do some research. Gen set out some years ago to re-construct himself in his wife's image. She died a few years ago. Genesis P. Orridge has been far ahead of the curve on many social/artistic ideas. He may be disturbing, but that is the point, he would hope you will try to look within to understand why you are uncomfortable with him and his ideas.

[kahnmoon]

Why is everybody arguing about who did what first!? We are still talking about these subjects because of a video of Genesis on you tube... You tube wasn't the first vehicle for short film.. Blah Blah Blah. Anyone here actually being in thee majickal aspect or are we creating an anti-rock star? Fuck who was 1st! I learned about sigils from him, cut-up from burroughs, thoth from crowley, alien 'shrooms from Mc Kenna- G.O.I and be. What is this neo-pre-post-ism-ism-ism Stick it- Sheesh! Read a book

[DungeonStudio]

Kudos for your kudos. And was it not a TG album entitled 'The Majik Sacrifice'? I recall a live record with a b&w photo on the front (then again, how many live TG albums DIDN'T have a b&w pic? LOL)

Forgive my misspelling, I just recall it being 'different' is all - yet I was tuned into it the moment I saw it. I for one am definately with the 'aspect' always. :)

Now for a little Gysin. Cheers!

[sportsfreundberlin]

it was called Thee Psychick Sacrifice.

[screwtape84]

I'd shag general p-orridge's mind.

[JANXDPDX]

this host is horrible. nervous and all the wrong direction...wierd vibe...gawd bless him for this interview,tho

[warmnightair]

Genesis is a very very smart musician and dare I say, sexy?!

[HATECITYUSA]

Genesis P-Orridge is better than your uninformed/uncultured comment, sod off!

[MAGUS1947]

Ian Curtis RIP. it's nice that Genesis actually cared about Ian. Joy Div were the greatest band of all time

[Sandbag209]

joy division were mediocre and you shouldn't put them on a pedestal

[MAGUS1947]

Dude. Have we been listening to the same band?!!! Look at the number of big current groups who state J D as a major influence. Check out the film that was released a year or so ago. Mediocre- I think not.

[urafckintube]

Many bands can be considered mediocre if their original context (in terms of era, city/country, genre, etc.) is not taken into account.

[johnthebaptist23]

I liked him better in Fascist gear

[copodeazucar]

wow

GPO is so amazing

!

respect

^_^

[GlowStormLion]

I admire the level of sincerity s/he's still maintained after THIS MANY YEARS of probably being asked the same questions, you know? Awesome attitude!

[neonwind]

Throbbing Gristle are just so exhilarating.

[ImaginationBlue]

Um, question: I first saw Genesis in the documentary Dig, I loved him. Is this... somewhat alternate gender presentation before or after that? Before? Thanks.

[ImaginationBlue]

Great theme music.

[lingojac]

Why did GPO get a sex change?

[olg06]

to be his dead wife lady jaye

[mindtpi]

that's not correct either. He's been doing his ongoing gender thing for a number of years as money permits and his wife only died about a year ago. My understanding is that they were _both_ having surgery done to create a pandrogenous individual - they were both trying to look like each other

[mindtpi]

He hasn't had a sex change per se - it's more a body modification project to do with pandrogeny. Last I heard he still had all his male bits but has obviously had quite a bit of cosmetic surgery as well as the implants. You can read about it on his website if you're interested

[olg06]

so he's really more of a transvestite

[mindtpi]

I think he's taken it a bit past that - I gather he is trying to evolve into a third gender or something like that.

[olg06]

wtf third gender there's no such thing he's an alien

[sfn6]

he's a transgender

[JANXDPDX]

pangender

[declan3906]

Naughty but nice.

[DungeonStudio]

Gen brought 'experimental' out of the closet, and made it mainstream with TG. He bridged Punk Rock and New Wave and took it down the low road as opposed to the high whilst at the fork in the road in the late 70's. If anyone told me I'd be interested in John Cage while listeing to 10 Pole Tudor, I'd call them crazy! But thanks to TG, I also got educated. What's old is new again with Gen. Jayne County eat your heart out!

[kahnmoon]

wrong click,sorry DS. One of the most informed comments i have read. kudos

[robotaholic]

dude - he CREATED industrial music - or at least he was the FIRST to do heart monitors, hosptial waste, and noise (or at least THEY) - give it up to Genesis - he's the original badass who doesn't give a FUCK what you think

[Lifesucksdie123]

WELL PUT.

[DaArbiter]

at your moms house

[Drittkladden]

Genesis scares me.

[disorderly4ever]

Is it true about Genesis P.O. being the last person having talked to Ian Curtis or is he talking bullshit? Never heard about it before.

[spencermax]

That's the second time I've heard that Genesis was the last person to speak to Ian. The first time was when I read an interview with Genesis a few years ago.

[thirdshift47]

S/He gives Man-chest-her a totally new meaning.

[walteredstates]

@thirdshift47 ....nearly choked reading this.... well worth the obscurity of reading 2yearold youtube comments... : )

[audiotrauma]

i'd fuck her.

[pressgangers]

piss off gen your not in the same vain as the velvets, get over your personal hype youve created because this whole idea he created industrial is bollocks

[dpaz]

i love class A idiots such as yourself...really pressgangers. Your simply pedestrian in you adoration for the VU. Andy would simply die.

[pressgangers]

Im not talking about industrial records im talking about everything else he has plagiarised and repackaged to claim his own, The man/woman is nothing but a jay bird who nests long enough and shouts loud enough so everybody is distracted from the originators of a movement

[Brianjonestown]

Godfather of Industrial, still kicking it and attracting predictably ignorant comments from youtube jaybirds. Which is just the way he always liked it. A ferocious artist and the real deal.

[pressgangers]

so you mention god father of industrial well can you tell me about Daphne Oram, or Delia Derbyshire as they was using tape loops and sonic sounds, some years before gen even thought about it, Or how about the DA DA movement in 1913 either in France or holland,

[Gabagool]

Okay, if he didn't then who did? It wasn't Genesis P-Orridge who founded "Industrial Records" in the mid seventies?

[pressgangers]

Im not talking about industrial records im talking about everything else he has plagiarised and repackaged to claim his own, The man/woman is nothing but a jay bird who nests long enough and shouts loud enough so everybody is distracted from the originators of a movement

[shadowranglers]

Now then pressgangers, why the bitterness? It was actually Monte Cazzaza who coined Industrial Records (an inversion/ play on" Record Industry") I should know as I was working with a group that had a release on industrial records. Industrial is just a word for groups who to this day have imitated TG in some way, and you can still hear the influence!

[pressgangers]

Its not industrial i have prob with, But its the megalomania of genesis who never stops bleating on about Boroughs and cut ups, when Boroughs took the whole idea from 1920 dada movement, The idea of using tape loops and electronica when Delia Derbyshire or Daphne Oram was using it long time before TG even existed.I have a prob with genesis constant band wagon jumping and shouting loud enough to drown out others  to claim all the TG ideas as fresh and brand new,

[taoist77]

Re;pressgangers.Hmm! P-orridge and TG were clearly influenced from art movements such as Dada,fluxus and Burroughs cut up method, indeed, so were coum transmissions, but give them some credit as applying such aesthietics to music had never been done in such a way before, if at all. There really is no such thing as originality anyway, everything has its influences. But i must admit that G p-o is somewhat deluded about his own importance.

[sexwithbozscaggs]

Sad about Ian Curtis...

[GreatestPotential]

A dream with Throbbing Gristle. We're driving along in a creame coloured van and there's this loud noise, pop!, a front tyre blows out and so we pull the van to the side of the road, it's a lovely country roadside, lush grass, and we all get out of the van, (sound of van doors opening) Gen hops out and he says something like "Oh, now what? Well we certainly aren't going anywhere till we get a change for this tyre" and then we all get back into the van and continue on our way, no hard feelings.

[MosaiqueAquatica]

Thanks for uploading this! :)

[theogore]

Thanks for this upload, krittg. Excellent quality/content.