TG
Posted by: Not For Me on 22 April 2004
After The TG Box, TG + and Mutant TG, there is now 'A Taste of TG' for beginners, and also coming up Re:TG for the live experience.
Anyone going?
DS
ITC - The Flying Lizards - The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards.
[This message was edited by David Slater on Thu 22 April 2004 at 21:25.]
Posted on: 22 April 2004 by J.N.
Can someone who understands this post explain it to me please?
Posted on: 22 April 2004 by Lo Fi Si
No, but I'm waiting for the TG remixes (Mutant?) on vinyl from my local emporium. Is it any good David?
Simon
Posted on: 23 April 2004 by Doug Graham
JN
Will it help if I mention Throbbing Grissle
Doug
Posted on: 23 April 2004 by Lo Fi Si
Spoilsport!
Posted on: 23 April 2004 by Tim Jones
I had a mad mate at Leeds Uni who loved TG and insited on playing them on rainy Sunday afternoons. Especially 'Hamburger Lady'. This put me off them for about ten years, although I do have the First Report on vinyl.
However, I bought 20 Jazz Funk Greats and the Third Report through the week, to give TG another try. 20 JFG is fantastic - must have been well ahead of its time. I like the Mutant/remix album too. But sadly, ten years have not changed my failure to grasp the 'more challenging' material on the Annual Reports...
Tim
Posted on: 23 April 2004 by Rasher
I used to go to the same pub as Genesis P-Orridge, as he used to live in the flat above the bike shop. I had some early TG LP's, but never really got into them. I have loads of Phychic TV though, which I always loved.
Good to see that Genesis is doing OK, although I'm not too sure about this transgender experiment, although if anyone was going to do it, s/he would.
Shame we don't have people like this living in Brighton anymore, it's now just ex-spice girls and Brittany Spears.
Posted on: 23 April 2004 by J.N.
quote:
Will it help if I mention Throbbing Grissle
Thanks Doug - I had to see the doctor about that a while back!
Posted on: 23 April 2004 by Not For Me
It's Throbbing Gristle actually!
Is anyone going to Re:TG though?
DS
OTD - Plexus - Cactus Trip
Posted on: 27 April 2004 by seagull
Maybe Doug's from the West country in which case it would be pronounce Grissle.
Posted on: 27 April 2004 by Bhoyo
I bought the TG Five Album box in 1981 (or thereabouts). One of these days, I plan to play it.
What put me off was, I wore the box's cool little badge to work, and was asked by an oldtimer why I was wearing the symbol of the British Union of Fascists. The box has been gathering dust since that day.
Davie
Posted on: 02 May 2004 by Not For Me
Davie, to ease your conscience, I am prepared to give a home to the box set, let me know the postage costs to England !
I used to have one of those badges too.
The use by TG of transgressive and confrontational imagery is one of the usual sticking points with them.
There is an offical response on the use of the lightning icon / imagery from Industrial Records here:
http://www.brainwashed.com/axis/tg/live/film.htmThe Re:TG weekend is off btw. Shame!
http://www.mute.com/tg/retg.htmlDS
ps I have all the records in the 5 LP box set, but not in the box!
The
Posted on: 02 May 2004 by sideshowbob
Shame about the re-TG thing being off, but they are going to play one last time next year, and since I couldn't get to re-TG that's no bad thing.
I can recommend the TG24 and TG+ boxes to anyone who likes this kind of stuff. 34 Cds of live material, more than enough even for me.
Anyone worried about the imagery TG were prone to use should read Simon Ford's excellent book Wreckers of Civilisation, which puts the whole thing in the performance art context to which it belongs.
-- Ian
Posted on: 03 May 2004 by Not For Me
RE : RE:TG
There is going to be a DVD of a studio recording session instead later this year.
DS
OTD - Baby Ford & the Ifach collective - Ambo (Alter Ego mix)
