Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Wreckers of Civilisation : The Story of Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle, Paperback Book

Wreckers of Civilisation : The Story of Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle Paperback

Paperback

Item not Available

Description

"These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976.

His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians - Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter.

What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book. From the forword by Jon Savage: Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction.

To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics.

COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep.

Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.

Information

Save 21%

£19.95

£15.75

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information