“‘The Gary Gilmore Memorial Society’ was founded by Cazazza, P-Orridge and Tutti in November 1976. Each member took turns sitting blind-folded and bound to a chair as the other two either aimed a loaded rifle or took a photograph. In 1977 P-Orridge was interviewed by New Style magazine and talked about the making of the images: “At the time it was just for ourselves to get the whole feeling of what he would face—it was really spooky. Weird… very scary, and since Monte is pretty crazy bloke anyway we were not sure he might not pull the trigger.

In January 1977 the photographs were made into a postcard and a T-shirt design for Krivine’s shop BOY. One card was sent on the day of the execution to the Governor of the prison in Utah with “WISH YOU WERE HERE, love Gary” written on it. The controversial nature of the design brought P-Orridge once again to the attention of the popular press. Tony Robinson wrote in ‘Sickly P-Orridge: now he sells firing squad postcards’ for the Sunday Mirror (30 January 1977): “From the man who has sickened you before, here is a piece of bad taste to give you an even greater shock. These three ‘execution’ pictures appear on a postcard released by the Gary Gilmore Memorial Society —a group founded by the controversial Genesis P-Orridge... The Memorial Society is also producing T-shirts and sunglasses designed as a blindfold to be sold in a Chelsea boutique”.” — Source : ‘Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle’, edited by Simon Ford, p.7.6, Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1999.