Genesis P Orridge is in a constant state of flux. In three decades as a provocative and controversial performer, writer, artist, and musician with his bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, he has drawn admiration and contempt in almost equal measure. His ethos has been not to so much push gently at the boundary of acceptable behaviour as mow it down in his enthusiasm to escape its constraint.

Back in the seventies he appeared regularly in the crosshairs of media commentators, often referred to as a corrupting influence on the impressionable youth of the day. Such was his antagonistic relationship with authority that in 1976 he was even name-checked in the House of Commons when Scottish Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn labelled him a "wrecker of civilisation" for his part in the infamous 'Prostitution' show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.