Psychic TV live in Moscow Pipl club [20.05.2012]

Part one of the dis-concert above...4 more additional segments can be found on youtube user "Mistergristles" page http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterGristle

Psychic TV "White Nights and Thank You Part 1" live in Philadelphia on March 24,2012

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge/Psychic TV - Hands and Words Collage

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge/Psychic TV - Hands and Words Collage from Brad Elliott on Vimeo.

Video shot at Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago - December, 2011. Reconfigured for this purpose and meant to highlight the different hand movements and gestures of Genesis during one live show.

VO created from numerous interviews/sources that were cut-up(ala Burroughs) and then mixed with original background collage.

Psychic TV at the Echoplex, 2/26 Dis-concert review

TVD Live: Psychic TV
at the Echoplex, 2/26

By Ryan Orvis | Published: February 29, 2012

It’s not always easy to know what to expect from a Psychic TV concert. The band has been many things over the course of its 30-odd year career. There was the early video art/noise collage phase in the ’80s, then there was the acid house techno phase in the ’90s. Earlier in this decade, more was heard about frontperson Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s interest in body modification than about the music of his longest-running band.

Therefore, it comes as a pleasant surprise to learn that the latest incarnation of Psychic TV is one of the best psychedelic rock bands currently active.

We caught a portion of their set at SXSW last year, and it was intriguing enough to warrant a closer look. Did they really play a reverent cover of Funkadelic chestnut “Maggotbrain,” or had the Texas heat simply messed with our heads?


From the first scorching chords of Hawkwind’s classic “Silver Machine,” it was clear that this was the same band – except that a year of subsequent jamming had only made them tighter and more intense. The Echoplex stage lit up with psychedelic lights and projected video manipulations as the band did their best to invoke their own sonic space ritual.

Genesis held the audience in thrall as the focal point of the show. H/she graciously introduced each band member with no trace of the ego one might expect from an individual credited with coining the term “industrial music” and spearheading the independent recording scene way back in the 1970s.

The set was primarily made up of long, moody soundscapes over which P-Orridge intoned spoken mantras about alien brains and lost loves. Genesis seemed genuinely surprised that the audience knew who Can were, before tearing into a spirited cover of “Mother Sky.”

Finally it all came to fruition as the familiar opening notes of “Maggotbrain” rang out. We had indeed not been dreaming; guitarist Jeff Berner can play some serious Eddie Hazel style licks. For an encore, we got another Hawkwind gem – “Hurry On Sundown,” to send us on our way.

Psychic TV have proven that they are not mere dabblers in psychedelic music. They are the real deal. May they continue to guide us onward and upward.

PTV3 2012 dis-concerts

PTV3 2012 dis-concerts

February:

Sunday, February 26th @ The Echoplex - Los Angeles, California
http://www.attheecho.com/2011/12/20/sunday-02-26-12-echo-slow-motion-present-psychic-tv-beastial-mouths-echoplex/


March:

Saturday, March 3rd @ Adelaide Festival - Adelaide, Australia http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2012/music/dreamers_genesis_breyer_p-orridge_and_psychic_tv_and_philip_brophys_stadium

Saturday, March 24th @ Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
http://www.johnnybrendas.com/event/89045/

May:Friday, May 18th Gig @ S.K.I.F. 16, Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival - St Petersburg, Russia
http://www.kuryokhin.net/


Sunday, May 20th @ P!PL club - Moscow, Russia
http://piplclub.ru/

Just confirmed! PTV3 Russian gigs...

May Friday 18 Gig St Petersburg @ S.K.I.F. 16
http://www.kuryokhin.net/

May Sunday 20 Gig Moscow @ P!PL club
http://piplclub.ru/


Furthur details forthcoming...