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POV-check|date=September 2011Original research|date=September 2011Infobox musical artist | name =Lydia Lunch| image = LydiaLunch.jpg| caption =| image_size = | background = solo_singer| birth_name = Lydia Anne Koch| alias =| Born = Birth date and age|1959|6|2|mf=y|date=July 2011| origin = Rochester, New York | instrument = Vocals, guitar| genre = No wave , Post-punk , Avant-garde , Spoken word | occupation = Singer, songwriter| years_active = 1976–present| label = ZE Records | associated_acts = Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
8-Eyed Spy
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Sonic Youth | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York Martin Charles Strong. The Great Indie Discography . 2003, page 85) is an United States|American singer , poet , writer , and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/43755/Lydia-Lunch New York Times The The Phoenix (newspaper)|Boston Phoenix named Lunch "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 1990s."cite web|title=Lydia-lunch.org - The Official Lydia Lunch Website - Biography|url= http://www.lydia-lunch.org/biography.html|work=Lydia-lunch.org|accessdate=3 October 2011

Her work typically features provocative and confrontational delivery and has maintained an anti-commercialism|anti-commercial ethicCitation needed|date=July 2011, operating independent music|independent ly of major label s and distributors. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/04/arts/lydia-lunch-expands-theatrical-boundaries.html New York Times

Biography


Lydia Lunch moved to New York City from Rochester at the age of 13 in 1973 with what she described having nothing but "a small red suitcase, a winter coat, and a big fucking attitude."cite web|title=Lydia Lunch Interview << Money Jungle Safari|url= http://sheltonhull.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/lydia-lunch-interview/|work= WordPress |accessdate=3 October 2011|date=16 October 2008 Lunch moved into a communal household of artists and musicians in NYC, including Kitty Bruce , daughter of Lenny Bruce Citation needed|date=July 2011. She soon earned the surname "Lunch" by stealing lunches for her often starving artist friends.cite web|last=Sankey|first=Elizabeth|title=NME Album Reviews - Album Review: Lydia Lunch - "Big Sexy Noise' - NME.COM|url= http://www.nme.com/reviews/lydia-lunch/10600|work= NME |accessdate=3 October 2011|date=23 June 2009 After befriending Alan Vega and Martin Rev at Max's Kansas City , she founded the short-lived but influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks , with James Chance . Both Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and The Contortions , Chance's subsequent band, played on the No Wave compilation No New York , produced by Brian Eno . Lunch later appeared on two songs on James White and the Blacks album, Off-White .

She appeared in two films by directors Scott B and Beth B . In the Black Box (1978) she played a dominatrix, and in 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 .

In the mid-1980s she formed her own recording and publishing company called " Widowspeak " on which she continues to release her own material, from music to spoken word . http://www.atavistic.com/artist_details.php? id=41 Atavistic.com

Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with musicians such as J. G. Thirlwell , Kim Gordon , Thurston Moore , Nick Cave , Marc Almond , Billy Ver Plank , Steven Severin , Robert Quine , Sadie Mae , Rowland S. Howard , Michael Gira , The Birthday Party (band)|The Birthday Party , Einstürzende Neubauten , Sonic Youth , Oxbow (band)|Oxbow , Die Haut , Omar Rodriguez-Lopez , Black Sun Productions , and French band Sibyl Vane (band)|Sibyl Vane , who put one of her poems to music. She also wrote, directed and acted in underground film s, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern and more recently has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist , again collaborating with such artists as Exene Cervenka , Henry Rollins , Juan Azulay , Don Bajema , Hubert Selby Jr. , and Emilio Cubeiro , as well as hosting spoken-word performance night The Unhappy Hour at the Parlour Club . http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jul/02/news/lv-unhappy2 Additionally, she has authored both traditional books and comix (with award-winning graphic novel artist Ted McKeever ).

Lunch released her studio album Smoke in the Shadows in November 2004 through Atavistic Records and Breakin Beats after a six-year break from music.cite web|last=Horning|first=Rob|title=Lydia Lunch: Smoke in the Shadows < PopMatters|url= http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/lunchlydia-smoke|work= PopMatters |accessdate=3 October 2011|date=27 January 2005cite web|title=Lydia Lunch - Interview - MagnaPhone Magazine - Pure Music|url= http://www.magnaphonemagazine.com/issue3/features/interview-lydia-lunch.html|accessdate=3 October 2011 Nels Cline , the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco , was featured on the album.cite web|last=Hectic|first=Gerry|title=LYDIA LUNCH - BIG SEXY NOISE|url= http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/europe_reviews/lydia_lunch_big_sexy_noise.html|work=Fly|accessdate=3 October 2011|date=27 June 2009 Smoke in the Shadows was met with positive reviews by Allmusic ,cite web|last=Jurek|first=Thom|title=Smoke in the Shadows|url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/smoke-in-the-shadows-r716306|work= Allmusic |publisher= Rovi Corporation |accessdate=3 October 2011 PopMatters , and Tiny Mix Tapes .cite web|title=Lydia lunch - Smoke in the Shadows|url= http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/lydia-lunch-smoke-shadows|work= Tiny Mix Tapes |accessdate=3 October 2011|date=2004

Lunch formed the band Big Sexy Noise in 2009 with James Johnston (English musician)|James Johnston and Terry Edwards (both members of the band Gallon Drunk ).cite web|title=MELTDOWN: Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise + Cindytalk|url= http://www.timeout.com/london/music/event/220916/meltdown-lydia-lunchs-big-sexy-noise-cindytalk|work= Time Out (company)!Time Out |accessdate=3 October 2011 A six-track eponymous EP was released on June 1, 2009 through Sartorial Records.cite web|title=iTunes - Music - Big Sexy Noise - EP by Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise|url= http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/big-sexy-noise-ep/id314196851|work= iTunes |accessdate=3 October 2011 The EP included a cover of Lou Reed 's song "Kill Your Sons" and "The Gospel Singer", a song co-written with Kim Gordon .
In 2010 she released, with Big Sexy Noise, their first album. In 2011, they released Trust The Witch , her second album with Big Sexy Noise. For both albums, Lydia Lunch and her band have made concert tours around the world.

Literature


In 1997, Lunch released Paradoxia , a loose autobiography, in which she documented her early life, sexual history, substance abuse and mental health problems. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/59917/nothings-shocking-an-interview-with-lydia-lunch/ Nothing's Shocking: An Interview With Lydia Lunch, Drew Fortune, 18 July 2008 Time Out New York gave it a favorable review, http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/22985/paradoxia New York Time Out while Bookslut ambiguously concluded "It’s to the reader to determine whether Lunch’s study goes deeper than that, or if instead, it’s a kind of literary and philosophical repetition compulsion, a reprisal of greatest hits from male nihilists, sexual adventurers and chroniclers of deviance." PopMatters called it a "brutal but boring and predictable circus, about which Lunch shows no emotions. Only fatigue seems to have given her pause." http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/paradoxia-by-lydia-lunch PopMatters Other reviewers praised Lunch's candor while expressing reservations about her prose. http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2008/01/paradoxia-predators-diary.html Feminist Review http://www.enjoy-your-style.com/lydia-lunch-books.html Lydia Lunch's Autobiographies

Discography


Music


  • No New York , Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (compilation Antilles 1978)

  • Babydoll b/w Freud In Flop , Teenage Jesus and 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 and the Jerks (7" / Migraine, 1979)

  • Teenage Jesus and the Jerks , Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (LP / Migraine, 1979) originally released on pink vinyl

  • Pink , Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (12" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)

  • Pre-Teenage Jesus , Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (12" / ZE, 1979)

  • Off White , James White and the Blacks (LP / ZE, 1979; also credited as Stella Rico )

  • Queen of Siam (Lydia Lunch album)|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 ( Compact audio cassette|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 (band)|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 (band)|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 / Widowspeak Records)

  • The Crumb , w. Thurston Moore (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1987)

  • Honeymoon In Red , w. members of The Birthday Party (band)|The Birthday Party (LP, 1987)

  • Stinkfist (EP)|Stinkfist , w. J. G. Thirlwell|Clint Ruin (12" EP, 1987)

  • Naked In Garden Hills , Harry Crews (band)|Harry Crews (1987)

  • '' Don't Fear the Reaper (EP)|Don't Fear the Reaper , w. J. G. Thirlwell|Clint Ruin (12" EP, 1991)

  • Shotgun Wedding , w. Rowland S. Howard (CD, 1991)

  • King of the Jews , w. Oxbow (band)|Oxbow (LP/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)

  • Unhealthy , w. Lab Report (CD / Invisible Records, 1994)

  • Everything , Teenage Jesus and 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)

  • Brooklyn Bank , w. Here (CD / Invisible Records, 1998)

  • 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)

  • Big Sexy Noise , w. James Johnston , Terry Edwards , Ian White (CD / Sartorial Records, 2009)

  • Bowery Bass , w. Leklo (White Label, 2010)

  • Trust The Witch ,w Big Sexy Noise (CD / Le Son Du Maquis, 2011)

  • Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit (musician)|Philippe Petit – (In Comfort, Vinyl, 12", Picture Disc, cz007 Comfortzone, 2011)


    • 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)

  • Flood Stains , w. Juan Azulay (2010)


    • Filmography


    Actress


  • She Had Her Gun All Ready , directed by Vivienne Dick (1978)

  • Guerillere Talks , directed by Vivienne Dick (1978)

  • ''Rome '78 , directed by James Nares (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)

  • Kiss Napoleon Goodbye , directed by Babeth vanLoo (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)

  • Godkiller (series)#Godkiller: Walk Among Us|Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2010) (Voice Role)


    • 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)

  • Flood stains (2010)


    • Subject


  • 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)

  • Lady Lazarus: Confronting Lydia Lunch (2000)

  • 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 , dir. Cam Archer (2004)

  • American Fame Part 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis , dir. Cam Archer (2004)

  • Wild Tigers I Have Known , dir. Cam Archer (2005)


    • Plays


    (both written, acted, directed and produced with Emilio Cubeiro)
  • South of Your Border (1988)

  • Smell of Guilt (1990)


    • Books


  • AS-FIX-E-8 (1990 with Mike Matthews )

  • Bloodsucker (1992 with Bob Fingerman )

  • Incriminating Evidence. Last Gasp , 1992

  • Adulterers Anonymous. Last Gasp , 1996

  • Toxic Gumbo (1998 with Ted McKeever )

  • Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary. Creation Books , 1999

  • The Gun is Loaded. Black Dog Publishing London UK, 2007

  • Will Work for Drugs. Akashic Books|Akashic , 2009


    • References


    Reflist

    External links


  • Official website| http://www.lydia-lunch.org

  • IMDb name|0526120

  • amg name|43755

  • http://www.zerecords.com/2010/artists_biography.php? id=20 Biography of Lydia Lunch on ZE Records

  • http://www.fromthearchives.org Lydia Lunch archives

  • http://www.furious.com/perfect/lydialunch.html Lydia Lunch interview

  • http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php? id=45732 Lydia Lunch interview at Allaboutjazz.com

  • http://www.abitare.it/highlights/lydia-lunch-juan-azulay-sci-arc Review at Abitare






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