- Mr. Z
We survived the polar vortex! For a minute there I didn’t think we were going to. The temps are back in the double digits today, and this weekend they’ll be pushing 40—that’s going to feel like paradise compared to the beginning of this week. The warm-up comes just in time for another busy weekend of live music.
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, two members of the pioneering industrial group Throbbing Gristle, have been playing as a duo since their band’s first demise in 1981. Tonight at Metro they’ll be playing a set of their best 80s work. Monica Kendrick says, “Until the turn of the millennium, the duo now calling itself Carter Tutti was known as Chris & Cosey, and nomenclature aside it’s been the most stable unit to emerge from the maelstrom of Throbbing Gristle. The same two people—Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti—have in fact performed under several names, including CTI and Conspiracy International. For more than 30 years, they’ve had pride of place in industrial and metaphysical electronica, collaborating with a wide variety of artists and occasionally coming back to flirt with old Throbbing Gristle compatriots Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (who was also one of the pillars of Coil). For this show, they’ll be playing ‘Chris & Cosey’—that is to say, a selection of their greatest 80s cult hits.”
Sat 1/11: Anthony Pateras at Logan Center for the Arts
