A 24-hour live radio broadcast of recorded music by Throbbing Gristle, plus live performances and sound manipulations by North Carolina experimental artists. Originally broadcast on WQFS Greensboro, 11 Sept. 1993. Also archived here: the excerpt collection "One of Twenty-Four Hours."

Notes

In September 1993, WQFS (Greensboro, NC) aired a noisy 24-hour radio celebration of the music of the epochal industrial group Throbbing Gristle. The monumental broadcast also featured performances by local experimental musicians who set up instruments, microphones and tape machines in the cramped hallways and record library of WQFS to play along with the hours of Gristle, as a small crew of DJs spun and mixed their way through a hoard of Throbbing Gristle artifacts: LPs, CD reissues, bootlegs and, of course, cassettes from the group's infamous suitcase set of 24 hour-long live performances.







Ian Caskey, Faye Holiday and Jonathan Lawson conducted a telephone interview with Gristle cofounder Genesis P-Orridge beforehand; segments from that conversation were mixed in during the broadcast here and there. On the day of the event, Genesis also called in live from his home in California to say hello, along with his daughter Caresse. The marathon culminated in a campy warped-country rendition of "Hamburger Lady," sung with earnest feeling by Wifflefist's Skip Elsheimer.







Soon afterwards, WQFS edited down a one-hour sampling from the broadcast, including excerpts of the local artists' original performances, and excerpts from the interview with Genesis. That collection is provided here, along with a recording of the entire event (minus a few gaps) divided into hour-long sections. (Technical note: this is a board recording made at WQFS during the original broadcast, 11 Sep 1993. Some airchecks and other DJ voice breaks did not make it onto tape due to technical limitations in the studio--i.e., too much extra junk plugged into the console.)







Participating DJs: Chuck Carroll, Ian Caskey, Wendy Fleming, Faye Holiday, Doug Johannessen, Jonathan Lawson, Benjamin Pryor. Participating musicians: Sandy Blocker, Murray Reams (Talking Drums); Skip Elsheimer, Ian Shannon, Chris Eubank, Drey Cameron, David Jordan, Rich Misenheimer (Wifflefist); David Sullivan, Kim Walker (Shiny Beast); Mark Robinson and Ted Singdahlsen (Laso Halo). Organized by Jonathan Lawson, who currently produces the creative music program Flotation Device at KBCS (Seattle).

Addeddate 2010-05-18 06:51:51 External_metadata_update 2019-02-23T04:40:34Z Identifier 24HoursofThrobbingGristle_WQFS Year 1993