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COUM Transmissions
British music and performance art collective
COUM Transmissions
COUM Transmissions was a music and performance art collective who operated in the United Kingdom from 1969 through to 1976. The collective was influenced by the Dada and surrealism artistic movements, the writers of the Beat Generation, and underground music. COUM were openly confrontational and subversive, challenging aspects of conventional British society. Founded in Hull, Yorkshire, by Genesis P-Orridge, other prominent early members included Cosey Fanni Tutti and Spydeee Gasmantell (also at school with Genesis P-Orridge). Part-time members included Tim Poston, Brook Menzies, Haydn Robb, Les (Reverend Lelli) Maull, Ray Harvey, John (Jonji) Smith, Foxtrot Echo, Fizzy Paet, and John Gunni Busck (John Lacey). Late-joining member Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, together with P-Orridge and Tutti went on to found the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle in 1976. COUM (an acronym of Cosmic Organicism of the Universal Molecular) had a rotating membership, and included both intellectual...
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