'THEE BIG HOUSE - TEMPLE OV PSYCHICK YOUTH IN BRIGHTON': Andrew Finch @ Catalyst Club

February 2021. This talk explores Genesis P-Orridge and TOPY’s period in Brighton (UK) between 1988-1992. Andrew Finch discusses Gen’s formation of TOPY, the group’s local activism to close the Dolphinarium, Brighton as a city of inherited 60’s counterculture and the raid on the Roundhill Cresent house by Scotland Yard, leading to the dissolution of the group. Featuring never-before-seen film-footage from Boris Hiesserer’s archive and an audience Q+A.
Andrew Finch:
Andrew Finch is an artist and filmmaker born in Brighton. His work explores spaces, subcultures and music. Andrew has been featured on Resonance FM, Elephant Magazine, Slow Dance Radio, Doomed Gallery, Hello Koral Gallery, South London Gallery and film festivals including Cinecity, Crossing the Screen, Sunday Shorts and Kino Film. His recent award-winning archive film, Landscapes of the Heart, explores the last thirty years of subcultures in Brighton. He is currently based in London and is co-director of London Rocks Film Festival.
The Catalyst Club:
Established in 2004, The Catalyst Club is a monthly event that pays tribute to the old traditions of French Salon, debating societies and Gentleman’s Clubs. Since its inception, the Catalyst Club has hosted over 700 talks that have included zombie films, Marmite, the history of the Martini, John Cage and mushrooms, the suffragettes, Spartans, demonology, bum reading and slime mould. On the night, three guest speakers take to the lectern to talk for fifteen minutes on a subject close to their heart. The Catalyst Club is open to anyone with a passion, no matter how bizarre or niche.
The Catalyst Club runs at the Latest Music Bar in Brighton and the Lewes Arms in Lewes. Since March 2020 it is currently being held digitally across Zoom. It is hosted by Dr David Bramwell, a Sony award-winning BBC Radio 3 & 4 presenter and author of the Cheeky Guide to Brighton, The Haunted Moustache, The No.9 Bus to Utopia and The Odditorium.
Boris Hießerer (Hiesserer):
Boris Hiesserer aka Eden 123 - former inner circle TOPY-activist and founder of Pyromania Arts as a foundation of the Temple Ov Psychick Youth - provided Andrew with never-before-seen film-footage for this talk.

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Thee dais OV thee Temple, and thee dreams OV thee Big House...much LovE from Eden 285

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Rad! Thanks Eden! ❤❤❤

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Hail Genesis P-Orridge! Hail Lady Jaye!

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Since you love Neil so much why don't you give up the ghost and go to the Downlow? ..... Neil & Uncle Sleazy are waiting for you.......

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Culture is a dip. Life is a gas.

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Black Magic?