Early Worm

Amongst the opening events of Hull City of Culture 2017 was the huge retrospective of COUM Transmissions; the taboo-busting performance art collective that preceded the formation of Industrial music icons Throbbing Gristle.

However the story begins not in the communes and disused buildings of Hull but rather in the halcyon suburbs of Solihull. Friends Genesis P-Orridge (then Neil Megson) and Spydeee Gasmantell (Ian Evetts) - together known as Worm - attended Solihull School until 1968.

Ben Waddington - director of Still Walking - reconstructs Worm's tale of teenage pranks, mods and beatniks, the influence of William Burroughs and of course the occasional black mass in the park.