Lydia Lunch
Background information
Birth name	Lydia Koch
Born	June 2, 1959
Origin	Rochester, New York
Genre(s)	No Wave Experimental Rock Alternative Rock
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1979 - present
Associated acts	Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 8-Eyed Spy Harry Crews

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Biography

After arriving in New York City at the age of 16, Lunch moved into a large communal household of artists and musicians in NYC, including Kitty Bruce, daughter of Lenny Bruce. Soon after she earned the surname "Lunch" by regularly stealing lunches for her (often starving) artist friends. After befriending the 'godfathers of punk' Suicide at Max's Kansas City, she founded the short-lived but influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus & the Jerks in 1976 with her artistic partner, No Wave punk-funk-jazz musician James Chance. Both appeared on the seminal No Wave compilation No New York. Lunch later appeared on two songs on Chance's album Off White (credited to James White and the Blacks; Lunch used the pseudonym "Stella Rico") in 1978. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. ... A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ... Suicide is an American rock music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega (vocals) and Martin Rev (synthesizers and drum machines). ... Maxs Kansas City was a nightclub (upstairs) and restaurant (downstairs) between 17th and 18th Streets, on Park Avenue South in New York City. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential music and art scene that thrived briefly in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk scene there. ... Teenage Jesus & the Jerks was an influential New York city No Wave band fronted by Lydia Lunch and James Chance, who later left the band after some conflict about their direction. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Chance aka James White aka James Black, born James Siegfried in Milwaukee, is a No Wave saxophonist who has been playing a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene since the late 1970s, in such bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, James... No New York is a compilation album released in 1978) by Antilles Records under the curation of producer Brian Eno. ... James Chance aka James White aka James Black, born James Siegfried in Milwaukee, is a No Wave saxophonist who has been playing a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene since the late 1970s, in such bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, James... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

She appeared in two films directed by the husband and wife film-making team of Scott B and Beth B; In the short film Black Box (1978) she played an unnamed torturer, and in the feature length, neo-noir thriller Vortex (1983) she played a private detective named "Angel Powers". During this time, she also appeared in a number of films by Vivienne Dick, including She Had her Gun All Ready (1978) and Beauty Becomes The Beast (1979), co starring with Pat Place. Film may refer to: photographic film a motion picture in academics, the study of motion pictures as an art form a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating, whether transparent or opaque a thin layer of liquid, either on a solid or liquid surface or free-standing Film... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... A feature-length is a movie/film term meaning full-length or uncut. ... Neo-noir is a term given to the modern trend of incorporating aspects of film noir into films of other genres. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. ... A private investigator, or PI, is a person who undertakes investigations. ... Vivienne Dick is an Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker. ...

In the mid-'80s she formed her own recording and publishing company called "Widowspeak" on which she continues to release a slew of her own material from songs to spoken word. Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ...

A self-avowed 'confrontationalist' identified by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the '90s", Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with musicians such as J. G. Thirlwell, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave, Billy Ver Plank, Steven Severin, Robert Quine, Sadie Mae, Rowland S. Howard, Michael Gira, The Birthday Party, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth, Die Haut and Black Sun Productions. She also acted in, wrote, and directed underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker and musician Richard Kern (including several films such as Fingered in which she performed unsimulated sex acts), and more recently has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, again collaborating with such artists as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema, Hubert Selby Jr., and Emilio Cubeiro, as well as authoring both traditional books and comix (with award-winning graphic novel artist Ted McKeever). The Boston Phoenix is an alternative weekly publication in Boston, Massachusetts that emphasizes arts and entertainment coverage, as well as alternative political viewpoints. ... J.G. Thirlwell James George Thirlwell (born January 29, 1960), aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is a vocalist, composer and producer. ... Gordon in 2005 Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York), is a musician, vocalist, and artist. ... Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth. ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ... Steven Severin (born Steven John Bailey, on September 25, 1955, in London), sometimes written Steve Severin, is bassist and founding member of Siouxsie & the Banshees. ... Robert Quine (December 30, 1942 - May 31, 2004), a native of Akron, Ohio, was a guitarist known for his innovative guitar solos. ... Rowland Stuart Howard is an Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the seminal post-punk groups These Immortal Souls, Crime and the City Solution and The Birthday Party, which also included vocalist Nick Cave. ... Michael Gira in Moscow, Russia. ... The Birthday Party was an Australian post punk rock group, active from 1977 to 1983. ... Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Sonic Youth is a seminal American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... Die Haut were an experimental German post-punk post-rock industrial band, who enjoyed underground success in the 1980s, with such records as the Nick Cave collaboration Burnin The Ice. ... Black Sun Productions is a collective of music, magick, performance and film artists working from their base in Switzerland. ... The first use of the term underground film occurs in a 1957 essay by American film critic Manny Farber, Underground Films. ... Richard Kern (born 1954) is a New York underground filmmaker and photographer. ... X on the cover of their 1997 collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, with Exene in the center foreground Exene Cervenka (born Christine Cervenka February 1, 1956) is an American musician and actress. ... Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield[1]) is a singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist. ... Hubert Selby, Jr. ... The term underground comics or comix describes the self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. ... Cover of the collected edition of Eddy Current Ted McKeever is an award-winning American Comics artist. ...

Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again : Postpunk 1978-1984 , wrote: "And although 'affection' is possibly an odd word to use in reference to a bunch of nihilists, I do feel fond of the No Wave people. ... there are great moments throughout Lydia Lunch's long discography." [1] Simon Reynolds (born 1963 in London), is an influential British music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term post-rock. ...

Selected quotations

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

There’re enough happy assholes out there, why should I be another one in the line...

It seems to me, that for over two thousand years now; mad-men, maniacs, and would be messiahs have been pilfering, have been pillaging, have been plundering, and have been raping the entire planet; and the way I see it, Mother Nature is getting pretty pissed off.

No pornography exploits women. It exploits men. It’s the men that are made to look stupid, silly and ridiculous, chasing after the golden elixir. Women look beautiful, do what they wanna do and get paid for it.

Discography

Music

• No New York, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (compilation Antilles 1978)
• Babydoll b/w Freud In Flop, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (7" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)
• Try Me b/w Staircase, Beirut Slump (7" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)
• Orphans b/w Less of Me, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (7" / Migraine, 1979)
• Pink, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (12" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)
• Pre-Teenage Jesus, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (12" / ZE, 1979)
• Off White, James White and the Blacks (LP / ZE, 1979; also credited as Stella Rico)
• Queen of Siam, solo (LP / ZE, 1979)
• Diddy Wah Diddy b/w Dead Me You B-Side, 8-Eyed Spy (7" / Fetish, 1980)
• 8-Eyed Spy, 8-Eyed Spy (LP / Fetish, 1981)
• Live, 8-Eyed Spy (cassette / ROIR, 1981)
• Devil Dogs (live in Italy / unreleased, 1981)
• 13.13, solo (LP / Ruby Records, 1981)
• The Agony is the Ectasy, solo (split 12" EP w. The Birthday Party / 4AD, 1982)
• Some Velvet Morning, w. Rowland S. Howard (12" EP / 4AD, 1982)
• Der Karibische Western, Die Haut (12" EP, 1982)
• Thirsty Animal, Einstürzende Neubauten (12" EP, 1982)
• Boy-Girl, Sort Sol (7", 1983)
• Dagger & Guitar, Sort Sol (LP, 1983)
• In Limbo, w. Thurston Moore (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1984)
• Death Valley '69, w. Sonic Youth (7", 1984)
• The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton, w. Lucy Hamilton aka China Berg of MARS (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1985)
• A Dozen Dead Roses, No Trend (LP, 1985)
• Heart of Darkness, w. No Trend (10" EP / Widowspeak, 1985)
• Death Valley '69, w. Sonic Youth (12", 1986)
• Hysterie, compilation of recordings 1976-1986 (LP, 1986)
• The Crumb, w. Thurston Moore (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1987)
• Honeymoon In Red, w. members of The Birthday Party (LP, 1987)
• Stinkfist, w. Clint Ruin (12" EP, 1987)
• Naked In Garden Hills, Harry Crews (1987)
• Don't Fear the Reaper, w. Clint Ruin (12" EP, 1991)
• Shotgun Wedding, w. Rowland S. Howard (CD, 1991)
• A Girl Doesn't Get Killed by a Make Believe Lover...'cuz its Hot!, w. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult (CDS, 1991)
• Head On, Die Haut (CD / Triple X, 1992)
• Sweat, Die Haut (CD / Triple X, 1992)
• Twisted, solo (7", 1992)
• Unearthly Delights, solo (7", 1992)
• Transmutation + Shotgun Wedding Live in Siberia, w. Rowland S. Howard (CD, 1994)
• Everything, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (CD re-issue/ Atavistic, 1995)
• Luncheone, 8-Eyed Spy (CD re-issue/ Atavistic, 1995)
• No Excuse b/w A Short History of Decay, w. Lee Ranaldo) (7" / Figurehead, 1997)
• The Desperate Ones, w. Glyn Styler) (CD EP / Atavistic, 1997)
• York (First Exit To Brooklyn), w. The Foetus Symphony Orchestra (CD, 1997)
• Matrikamantra, solo (CD, 1997)
• Widowspeak: The Original Soundtrack, solo best-of compilation (2CD / NMC, 1998)
• Smoke In The Shadows, solo (CD / Atavistic, 2004)
• Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch, w. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (EP / Willie Anderson Recordings 2007)

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Spoken word

• Better An Old Demon Than A New God, Giorno Poetry Systems comp. f/ William S. Burroughs, Psychic TV, Richard Hell and others (1984)
• The Uncensored, solo (1984)
• Hard Rock, solo (split cassette w. Michael Gira / Ecstatic Peace, 1984)
• Oral Fixation, solo (12", 1988)
• Our Fathers who Aren't in Heaven, w. Henry Rollins, Hubert Selby Jr. and Don Bajema (1990)
• Conspiracy of Women, solo (1990)
• South of Your Border, w. Emilio Cubeiro (1991)
• POW, solo (1992)
• Crimes Against Nature, solo spoken-word anthology (Tripple X/Atavistic, 1994)
• Rude Hieroglyphics, w. Exene Cervenka (Rykodisc, 1995)
• Universal Infiltrators, (Atavistic, 1996)
• The Devil's Racetrack (2000)

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Filmography

Actress

• She Had Her Gun All Ready, directed by Vivienne Dick (1978)
• Guerillere Talks, directed by Vivienne Dick (1978)
• Black Box, directed by Scott and Beth B (1979)
• Beauty Becomes the Beast, directed by Vivienne Dick (1979)
• The Offenders (1979-1980)
• Liberty's Booty (1980)
• Subway Riders, directed by Amos Poe (1981)
• The Wild World of Lydia Lunch, directed by Nick Zedd (1983)
• Like Dawn to Dust, directed by Vivienne Dick (1983)
• Vortex, directed by Scott and Beth B (1983)
• Submit to Me, directed by Richard Kern (1985)
• The Right Side of My Brain, directed by Richard Kern (1985)
• Fingered, directed by Richard Kern (1986)
• Submit to Me Now, directed by Richard Kern (1987)
• Mondo New York (1987)
• Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread (1987)
• Penn & Teller's BBQ Death Squad (198?)
• Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1990)
• The Road to God Knows Where (1990)
• Thanatopsis, directed by Beth B (1991)
• Visiting Desire (1996)
• Power of the Word (1996)
• The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things (2004)
• Kill Your Idols (2004)
• Psychomentsrum (unreleased)

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Writer

• The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
• Fingered (1986)

Composer

• The Offenders (1980)
• Vortex (1983) (W/John Lurie, Adele Bertei, Pat Place, Beth B and Scott B)
• The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
• Goodbye 42nd Street (1986)
• Fingered (1986)
• I Pass for Human (2004)

Subject

• Rome 78 (1978)
• The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983)
• Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1987)
• Put More Blood into the Music (1987)
• The Gun is Loaded (1988-1989)
• The Road to God Knows Where (1990)
• Malicious Intent (1990)
• The Thunder (1992)
• Totem of the Depraved (1996)
• Paradoxia (1998)
• Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock (2001)
• DIY or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)
• Kill Your Idols (2004)

Narrator

• American Fame Part 1: Drowning River Phoenix (2004) Cam Archer

American Fame Part 2 (2004) Cam Archer Wild Tigers I Have Known Cam Archer )2005)

Plays

(both written, acted, directed and produced with Emilio Cubeiro)

• South of Your Border (1988)
• Smell of Guilt (1990)

Bibliography

• Adulterers Anonymous (1982 with Exene Cervenka)
• Incriminating Evidence (1992)
• Paradoxia; a Predator's Diary (1997)

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Comixography

• AS-FIX-E-8 (1990 with Mike Matthews)
• Bloodsucker (1992 with Bob Fingerman)
• Toxic Gumbo (1998 with Ted McKeever)

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Miscellany

• Featured as the Ace of Hearts in Post-Modern Pin-Ups: Pleasure Activist Playing Cards by Annie Sprinkle (1995)
• Verbal confrontation with Joe Rogan after an attempt at confronting Rogan over his criticizing of women.

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External links

• http://www.lydia-lunch.org/
• http://www.fromthearchives.org/
• http://ca.geocities.com/lydialvnch/
• Lydia Lunch at the Internet Movie Database