In her new book, Re-Sisters, Cosey Fanni Tutti, musician and co-founder of industrial band Throbbing Gristle, draws parallels between herself and two other uncompromising female artists allergic to convention: the electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, and the 15th-century mystic Margery Kempe, believed by many to be the first person to have authored an English-language autobiography.
In this extract, Tutti digs into Derbyshire’s reputation on the music scene of the Sixties, which oscillated between “brilliant” and “difficult”, “exacting” and “trouble”. Derbyshire died in 2001, her legacy as a creative genius cemented by those influenced by her work, among them Pink Floyd, Portishead and Orbital.
