Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe.
Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm
Ever since Genesis P-Orridge and his bandmates in Throbbing Gristle were called “Wreckers of Civilization” in 1976 they had declared “Nothing Short ov a Total War” against mainstream culture.
Following further conflict with the authorities throughout subsequent projects, Psychic TV and the Temple ov Psychick Youth, it all came to a head in 1992 when P-Orridge and the Temple were attacked in the gutter press, falsely accused of Satanic Ritual Abuse in TV program ‘Dispatches’ and finally were raided by Scotland Yard, who seized something like two tonnes of archival and personal materials.As a consequence, fearing for their safety, the P-Orridge Family went in to self-imposed exile in the USA.
What were the various factors that contributed to this astounding turn of events? What were the consequences? And what was it really all about?
Join Matthew Levi Stevens, former associate of Genesis P-Orridge and Temple member, as he examines this shocking epsode in counter-culture history, still scarily relevant today.
Matthew Levi Stevens is the author of The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs (Mandrake of Oxford, 2014) and various related texts, as well as a range of print and online articles for Beatdom, FANEmag, The Fenris Wolf 12, Furfur, Reality Sandwich, Soft Need 23, and others. He has also spoken at The Last Tuesday Society, The Occult Conference (Glastonbury), The Atlantis Bookshop, Treadwells, and The Horse Hospital.”
The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society is London’s best award-winning alternative cocktail bar hidden within The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. A drinker’s cabinet of wonder filled curious cocktails & extraordinary elixirs —The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour is truly a hidden treasure of East London. Opened by collectors, drinks historians & absinthe experts — Allison Crawbuck (Brooklyn) & Rhys Everett (London) in 2016, the duo bring with them a shared passion for the mysterious world of spirits & the macabre.
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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.
The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.
