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Chris & Cosey also played Santos (belated pics); Psychic TV add MoMA PS1 show

photos by P Squared Photography

Chris & Cosey @ Santos, 1/11/2014
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Do you still there’s still a mission to be subversive or disruptive?

Cosey: Well no, I don’t think there ever was a mission, really. We [Throbbing Gristle] called it “The Mission is Terminated” because it had sort of turned into that kind of thing. The expectation had built that we were going to lead them somewhere, but what we were trying to say was, “There are no leaders, there’s only you–that’s what it’s all about.”

Chris: I guess we’re enjoying it more now, we don’t have to be subversive any more, we’ve matured, we’re older.

Cosey: It’s more a case of we’re happy doing what we want to do as and when we want to do it–which we’ve always done, really. That’s what’s nice about the appreciation of the music we did in the ’80s: we’re physically experiencing the joy it’s bringing to people 30 years later, and we saw it first time around. I don’t think a lot of people get to have that–I mean, not in that kind of context, rather than something like an “oldies” tour where they go around going, “Here’s the ’80s again!” It’s not like that, people have taken our music and brought it to the now, and appreciate it in the now for what it is.

Chris: Yeah we’re definitely not doing an ’80s revival show! The sounds are different. We are playing the old songs, but in a different way. We don’t recreate those ’80s sounds. – [Resident Advisor]

Industrial pioneers and lifemates Chris Carter and Cosi Fanni Tutti were in the U.S. earlier this month playing a few shows, rare appearances for the influential duo. The first was at MoMA PS1 where they did live remixes of songs from post-Throbbing Gristle project X-TG. Then they did two shows under the billing “Carter Tutti does Chris & Cosey,” reworking some of their ’80s-era material for now times. We already posted pics from their 1/12 show at Radio Bushwick, and now we’ve got a belated set from their 1/11 Santos show (with openers Excepter) in this post.

In related news, Carter and Tutti’s former bandmate and provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge — who recently played two shows with Psychic TV at Brooklyn Night Bazaar — has a new book coming out via First 3rd. There’s a NYC book launch party happening February 9 at MoMA PS1, featuring a live performance from Psychic TV and Starred, with a DJ set from Tamaryn, a reading by Jarrett Earnest, and films by Orridge and Leigha Mason. Advance tickets will be available but they aren’t on sale yet. More info here. Stay tuned.

More pics from Chris & Cosey’s show at Santos below…


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