Psychic TV

Psychic TV (sometimes spelt Psychick TV) or PTV, is a largely electronic music group with occasional forays into psychedelic, punk, and experimental music. The band was formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge (after the break up of

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Electronic music - Genesis P-Orridge

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Throbbing Gristle), video director Peter Christopherson and Alex Fergusson, musician, producer.

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Throbbing Gristle - Peter Christopherson - Alex Fergusson

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One of the distinctive features of Psychic TV as a band is that it is a so-called "super" group that includes members from other bands psychicly as well as physically. The first such arrangement was made between P-Orridge and Ian Curtis, lead singer of the seminal English group, Joy Division. Curtis committed suicide on May 18, 1980 and has been psychically part of the group ever since.

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Ian Curtis - Joy Division - May 18 - 1980

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The band began publishing a monthly series of 23 live albums in 1986 but stopped without explanantion after only 17. 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 subsequently earnt an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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1986 - Guinness Book of World Records

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Contributions to Psychic TV have include artists such as Coil, Current 93, Hafler Trio, The Cult, White Stains, Soft Cell, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Matthew Best, Daniel Simon Black, Bill Breeze, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Derek Jarman, Fred Giannelli, John "Zoskia" Gosling, Timothy Leary, Rose McDowall, Stephen Kent, Vagina Dentata Organ, Andrew Weatherall, Z'ev, Zef Noi$e, and many others.

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Coil - Current 93 - Hafler Trio - The Cult - White Stains - Soft Cell - Master Musicians of Jajouka - Bill Breeze - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson - Derek Jarman - Fred Giannelli - Timothy Leary - Rose McDowall - Vagina Dentata Organ - Andrew Weatherall - Z'ev

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Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (aka T.O.P.Y.), was formed as an organisation at the same time as the band. T.O.P.Y. was intended to be the philosophical wing of Psychic TV, but also presented an image of being a cult-like fanclub for the group. P-Orridge left it in 1991.

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Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth - 1991

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Psychic TV released early albums of acid house music, such as Jack The Tab (1988). After breaking up in 1999, Psychic TV formed into a new band known as PTV3 in 2003. In 2003 Genesis P-Orrdige changed his or her identity to Genesis/Djin Breyer P-Orridge along with life partner and PTV3 member Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (a.k.a. Mother Jack/Miss Jackie). This change in identity allowed Genesis to become what is known as a real life "Pandrogine". Other projects by P-Orridge include sample project Splinter Test and spoken word, Troubadorian project Thee Majesty with Larry Thrasher (Thrasher Qawwal / Thessolonians) and Bryin Dall (Loretta's Doll).

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Acid house - 1988 - 1999 - 2003

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