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Chris and Cosey Feature February 1984

Issue four of Kindred Spirit included a feature about duo Chris and Cosey.  To give you a little background, Chris (Carter) and Hull born Cosey (Fanni Tutti) were originally a part of controversial music and art collective COUM Transmissions, which was founded in Hull in the late 1960s by Genesis P-Orridge and remained active until the mid 1970s. One of the exhibitions on display at Hull ’s Humber Street Gallery to tie in with Hull being UK City of Culture last year was a collection of COUM pieces from the personal archives of Cosey and Genesis P-Orridge. For anyone not familiar, Humber Street was the former home of Hull ’s historic fruit market, and has now been transformed into a cultural quarter. I found two interesting recordings linked to this. One is a short film that was recorded shortly before the COUM exhibition in February 2017 . It includes an interview with Cosey and some rare footage of COUM on the streets of Hull circa 1972. Well worth a look!    The other