Psychic TV (sometimes spelled Psychick TV) or PTV, is an English experimental video art and music group, formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and video director Peter Christopherson after the break-up of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV signs to Some Bizzare Label working along with Alex Fergusson, musician and producer from Alternative TV.
The band began publishing a monthly series of 23 live albums in 1986, but stopped without explanation after only 17. The tenth, a picture disk most commonly referred to as Album 10, could only be obtained by submitting tokens contained in each of the previous nine releases. The band subsequently earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for most records released in one year.
Contributors to Psychic TV have included artists such as Coil, Current 93, Hafler Trio, The Cult, White Stains, Soft Cell, Fred Giannelli, XKP, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Matthew Best, Daniel Simon Black, Bill Breeze, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Derek Jarman, John Gosling, Timothy Leary, Rose McDowall, Stephen Kent, Vagina Dentata Organ, Andrew Weatherall, Larry Thrasher, Z'EV, Zef Noi$e, Jeff Berner, and many others.
From a world that I call home,
To a place ive never known,
I may seem a little strange but I know im not alone,
Ive been living in a maze,
Now im running out of space,
While their hiding in the sun ill be bathing in the
shade.
Darkness was always my disguise,
Love shined a brand new light,
And stars fell from the sky when she said,
Hey Mr. alien, im willing to let you in,
Cause I see a different man, that they don’t know,
And they don’t understand,
Mr. alien, don’t care about where you’ve been,
There’s no need to be afraid,
Just follow me into this foreign land.
From across the great devide,
You were sent to be my guide,
And you took me by the hand,
Led me to the other side,
Now im higher that ive ever been,
And I feel my soul awakening,
Naked and exposed as the sun comes pouring in.
Darkness was always my disguise,
Love shined a brand new light,
And stars fell from the sky when she said,
Hey Mr. alien, im willing to let you in,
Cause I see a different man, that they don’t know,
And they don’t understand,
Mr. alien, don’t care about where you’ve been,
There’s no need to be afraid,
Just follow me into this foreign land.
Hey Mr. alien, im willing to let you in,
Cause I see a different man, that they don’t know,
And they don’t understand,
Mr. alien, don’t care about where you’ve been,
There’s no need to be afraid,
Just follow me into this foreign land,
Hey Mr. alien, im willing to let you in,
Cause I see a different man, that they don’t know,
And they don’t understand,
Mr. alien, don’t care about where you’ve been,
There’s no need to be afraid,
Just follow me into this foreign land.