The P in Genesis P-Orridge stands for Peter.The Throb are directly responsible for Nine Inch Nails who are indisputably the worst live band ever.This is a typical Throbbing Gristle lyric: 'I am one of the injured/A tear blurs flesh/ Dissolving/Like an injured dog' (Six Six Sixties).Cosey Fanni Tutti's greatest moment came when she appeared in a series of strip-tease photos in a Sunday colour supplement that caused a Radio 1 DJ to have a sexist, drooling on-air melt-down the following Monday.Genesis P-Orridge used to look like a shaved baby panda but now most people think he looks like the old British comic villain Grimly Fiendish.The only two members of Throbbing Gristle you need to know about are Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.The Throb Nation is happiest when sneering,

This made the Throb and the Throb's fans sneer.

Punks threw stuff at TG and demanded they played proper punk rock.

They'd probably run home crying after mill girls held them down and put milk bottles over their penises, flashed their garters and then smashed the bottles off wi' cobblestones.

In common with all other industrial bands, TG wouldn't last 10 minutes in a real factory.

Throbbing Gristle formed in 1975 and were the first band ever to call themselves 'industrial'.

Unless you are actually reading this tomorrow, in which case: is the future really like they said it would be? To read tomorrow's, you'll have to wait a day. This is the second in our readers week series of articles.

Throbbing Gristle, a few decades after their vagina-slitting heyday

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