“The one who would whistle to, Throbbing Gristle through, Harsh times in Umberstone Covert”
– Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert
So… what do we know about Throbbing Gristle?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“The one who would whistle to, Throbbing Gristle through, Harsh times in Umberstone Covert”
– Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert
So… what do we know about Throbbing Gristle?
dr desperate
Genesis P-Orridge met Cosey Fanni Tutti in the Students’ Union at Hull University where the former, son of a jazz musician, was studying English.
(You could think of them as the Bizarro Everything But The Girl if you like, CtSO.)
18 February 2019
dr desperate
Now here’s a thing: this TG T-shirt was described as as both ‘dog whistle’ and “covert”.
In 2015.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/amusing_throbbing_gristle_dog_whistle_tee_shirt
18 February 2019
peter mcornithologist
Cosey was an actress in several pornographic masterpieces. All in the pursuit of art .
18 February 2019
EXXO
@ Dr. D. As “covert” and “dog-whistle” are near-synonyms in the context of sub-textual messages to sub-groups, it seems an unremarkable near-collocation. That the Throbs did a track called ‘Whistling Song’ may be of interest.
Meanwhile, I think we need to be over-interpreting this song in more and more ways that will provoke yer man to continue making new pronouncements about it at every gig. You know the sort of thing:
….. “There’s been a lot of talk about this next song. This song is not a multi-person song about trans-gender knitted dolls, this song is Umberstone bloody Covert.”
So I will venture that the whole non-gender-binary thing about Genesis P. is very relevant in a song where “Nigel dear” (anag) imagines himself realigned (anag) and re-born as Geraldine (anag), a female (or anyway definitely not male) woollen doll. The protagonist’s voice in the song is the creator: his mother, a post-industrial anarcho-knitter who follows on from Greenhowe, the psychedelic hippy rebel knitter. The maternal creator figure wishes he (they?) was (were?) a more carefree character entirely, and that he would give full vent to the passions he (they?) doesn’t (don’t?) have the courage to express, in this and other songs.
18 February 2019
dr desperate
RIP Genesis.
14 March 2020