[lbo-talk] Psychic TV -- worth seeing?

[wrobert at uci.edu]

Genesis claims that Curtis wanted to work with Throbbing Gristle.  His
story was that they were going to play a show together and then declare
the end of both bands and then form a new band toghether.  The other folks
with Joy Division/New Order say that they have never heard this.  As for
Boyd Rice, if I remember correctly, he had extensive contact with white
supremicist/nazi organizations.  This pushes it a bit beyond Siouxsie
Sioux (although Bowie did say in interview that England needed a right
wing dictator in the late seventies...)

                                    robert wood


>> On interesting thing that Michael probably knows
>> about
>> is that Psychic TV claimed Ian Curtis of Joy
>> Division
>> was supposed to do work with them, but then Curtis
>> killed himself in 1980 before he could do so.
>>
>
> What does New Order have to say about this claim?
>>
>> Also, Michael mentions Boyd Rice having nazi
>> beliefs.
>> Was under the impression he never REALLY had those
>> (yes, you could probably find lots of pictures of
>> him
>> doing dress up, a la David Bowie or Siouxsie Sioux,
>> and Michael's good at finding stuff like that, but
>> was
>> Rice taking the piss the whole time or what)?
>
> I don't know about him in particular, but I think
> there is a lot of play-acting in the "European
> avant-garde toying with fascism" movement. That's the
> case I think with Laibach and with Dugin in his
> previous National Bolshevik incarnation.
>
> (Just for laughs, I recommend looking at that old 1994
> Playboy interview with Zhirinovsky. He's got the
> interviewer totally suckered into believing his
> schtick, completely fucking with her, and she totally
> buys everything. It's quite funny.)