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Title: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a hodgepodge of random elements
Post by: Shana A on March 30, 2012, 08:32:05 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 30, 2012, 08:32:05 AM
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a hodgepodge of random elements
Genesis P-Orridge's quest to become as much as possible like his partner Lady Jaye Breyer is documented in The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.
By Ken Eisner, March 29, 2012
http://www.straight.com/article-646241/vancouver/ballad-genesis-and-lady-jaye (http://www.straight.com/article-646241/vancouver/ballad-genesis-and-lady-jaye)
The English performance artist known as Genesis P-Orridge is like this. Born Neil Megson in Manchester in 1950, the poet, singer, and quasi-instrumentalist was influenced by expat artists Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, who mentored him. He became a progenitor of punk and industrial music in two major bands, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and was accused by Tory politicians of trying to "wreck civilization" with publicly funded art installations during the pre–Sex Pistols era.
P-Orridge really got hot after moving to the U.S. and meeting Jacqueline Breyer, aka Lady Jaye, an American who worked as a dominatrix to support her writing. Tall, blond, and stately in the Helen Mirren mould, Breyer was more than 20 years his junior. Nonetheless, they married in 1993 and began their Pandrogyne Project: that is, to become as much like each other as possible, right down to matching breast implants and lip jobs.
Genesis P-Orridge's quest to become as much as possible like his partner Lady Jaye Breyer is documented in The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.
By Ken Eisner, March 29, 2012
http://www.straight.com/article-646241/vancouver/ballad-genesis-and-lady-jaye (http://www.straight.com/article-646241/vancouver/ballad-genesis-and-lady-jaye)
The English performance artist known as Genesis P-Orridge is like this. Born Neil Megson in Manchester in 1950, the poet, singer, and quasi-instrumentalist was influenced by expat artists Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, who mentored him. He became a progenitor of punk and industrial music in two major bands, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and was accused by Tory politicians of trying to "wreck civilization" with publicly funded art installations during the pre–Sex Pistols era.
P-Orridge really got hot after moving to the U.S. and meeting Jacqueline Breyer, aka Lady Jaye, an American who worked as a dominatrix to support her writing. Tall, blond, and stately in the Helen Mirren mould, Breyer was more than 20 years his junior. Nonetheless, they married in 1993 and began their Pandrogyne Project: that is, to become as much like each other as possible, right down to matching breast implants and lip jobs.