Feminist and Pro-Queer Icon Noted for Artwork

Writing in the street sold magazine The Big Issue, Malcolm Jack notes that the band Motley Crue are the subject of a new biopic charting the band's legendary self destructive appetite for drugs, drink, fornication and general mayhem. Malcolm suggests that a better example of a musical wild child would be Cosey Fanni Tutti, whose work with the art collective COUM Transmissions and the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, have now been recorded in her memoirs. The COUM Collective, of which Tutti was an essential part, was one of the most subversive practitioners of the avant garde underground of the late sixties and nineteen seventies. It was subject to continual police harrassment and questions were raised about its work in the House of Commons. Today, fifty years later, the collective is considered to have been an important influence on later artists as diverse as the Aphex Twin and Nine Inch Nails. COUM and the Throbbing Gristle group are of interest to LGBT people given the feminist and pro-queer stance taken by the collectives, their pursuance of gender non conformity and their constant antagonism of the same conservative figures who also obsessed negatively about the LGBT population.