In the second half of the 1970s, Throbbing Gristle waged war on British society. With songs about the Moors murders and the Manson killings, and riotous concerts that garnered front-page headlines and sparked debates in the House of Commons, the band did, as guitarist Cosey Fanni Tutti puts it, "disrupt things a little". The MP Nicholas Fairbairn called them wreckers of civilisation - shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure. But even wreckers of civilisation, like prostitutes and politicians, get respectable with time. The four members of Throbbing Gristle are together again to prepare for a festival that is being organised in their honour. More
