Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch; June 2, 1959)Martin Charles Strong. ''The Great Indie Discography''. 2003, page 85 is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and

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speaker. Her career began during the 1970s

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no wave scene as the singer and guitarist of

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. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational

noise music Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical ...

delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating

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ly of

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and distributors. The ''

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'' named Lunch one of the ten most influential performers of the 1990s. Her collaboration with

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called " Death Valley '69" was named one of "The 50 Most Evil Songs Ever" by ''

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Biography

Lunch was born on June 2, 1959, in

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and is of German and Italian descent. She moved to New York City at the age of 16 and eventually moved into a communal household of artists and musicians. After befriending

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and Martin Rev at

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, she founded the short-lived but influential no-wave band

, with

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. Both Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and the Contortions, Chance's subsequent band, played on the no wave compilation '' No New York'', produced by

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. Lunch later appeared on two songs on '' James White and the Blacks'' album, ''Off-White''. She was in two other short lived bands before launching her solo career in 1980, Beirut Slump and

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. In the mid-1980s, she formed the recording and publishing company "Widowspeak Productions" (also known as just "Widowspeak"), on which she continues to release her own material, from music to

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. Two albums published by Lunch's label were released in 2013: ''Collision Course & Trust The Witch'', by Big Sexy Noise (released on Cherry Red), and ''Retrovirus'' (released on Interbang Records); both albums are by Lunch's musical projects. She released her studio album ''Smoke in the Shadows'' in November 2004, through Atavistic Records and Breakin Beats, after a six-year break from music.

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, the lead guitarist of alternative rock band

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, was featured on the album. ''Smoke in the Shadows'' was met with positive reviews by

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, and

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. In 2009 Lunch formed the band Big Sexy Noise. The group features Lunch on vocals, James Johnston (guitars),

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(organ, saxophone), and Ian White (drums). Johnston, White and Edwards are members of the British band

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. A six-track eponymous EP was released on June 1, 2009, through Sartorial Records, and included a cover of

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's song "Kill Your Sons," as well as "The Gospel Singer", a song co-written with Gordon. The debut, self-titled album, ''Big Sexy Noise'', was released in 2010, followed by ''Trust The Witch'' in 2011. For both albums, Lunch and her band completed tours throughout Europe. In 2010, The

Jeffrey Lee Pierce Jeffrey Lee Pierce (June 27, 1958 – March 31, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and author. He was one of the founding members of the band The Gun Club, and released material as a solo artist. Biography Early life Pierce ...

Sessions Project launched ''We Are Only Riders'', the first of a series of four albums featuring Pierce's previously-unreleased works-in-progress. The album features interpretations of Pierce's work by friends, collaborators, and admirers, including Lunch. Lunch also contributed to the second album from the project, ''The Journey is Long'', which was released in April 2012. Lydia Lunch (6890267545)

Although the Pierce Sessions Project's third and final album, ''The Task Has Overwhelmed Us'', was due for release in late 2012, the schedule was changed after the release of the second installment. Glitterhouse Records, the label producing the collection, instead released a third album titled ''Axles & Sockets'' in May 2014, on which Lunch performs "The Journey Is Long" with Pierce's recordings. The label explained that the third album has become the "penultimate" full-length release of the Project, but did not name the final album, or its release date. Lunch released the album ''Retrovirus'' (also the name of the band Lunch has played with since then) in 2013 on Interbang Records and ugEXPLODE (the vast majority of the album tracks are published by Widowspeak). Together with band members Weasel Walter, Algis Kizys, and Bob Bert, Lunch performed a show following the album's release at the Bowery Electric venue in New York City, in May 2013. In March 2022 the Center for Popular Music (CPM) at

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named her the recipient of the CPM Fellows Award. The only previous recipients of this honor were

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and

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Film

She appeared in two films by directors

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. In '' Black Box'' she played a

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, and in ''

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'' 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 2011, Lunch appeared in ''Mutantes: punk, porn, feminism'', a film directed by

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, also featuring

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and Catherine Breillat. She also wrote, directed, and acted in underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker Nick Zedd and photographer

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Spoken word

Lunch has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, collaborating with artists such as Exene Cervenka,

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, Don Bajema and Hubert Selby Jr. as well as hosting spoken-word performance night "The Unhappy Hour" at the Parlour Club.

Literature

In 1997, Lunch released ''Paradoxia'', a loose autobiography, in which she documented her early life, sexual history,

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and mental health problems. '' Time Out New York'' gave it a favorable review, while

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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." ''

'' called it a "brutal but boring and predictable circus, about which Lunch shows no emotions. Only fatigue seems to have given her pause." Additionally, Lunch has authored both traditional books and comix (with graphic novel artist

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Other work

In 2013, Lunch ran self-empowerment workshops in locations such as Ojai, California, US and

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, France. In regard to the Rennes workshop, her inaugural self-empowerment event, Lunch recalled: "Every day people would come in that would have to get a hug. I felt like mother India." In April of that year, Lunch said that she is the producer of the Emilio Cubeiro album ''Death of an Asshole''. In 2014 Lunch shot a series of photographs with Austin, Texas-based artist, Darla Teagarden. In 2019 Lunch started the podcast ''The Lydian Spin''. Lunch hosts each weekly episode with bassist

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. In 2020, Lunch appeared on the album Against All Logic "2017–2019", by producer

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Personal life

In 2004, she left the United States to live in

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. She returned to the United States in 2017 and lives in

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Discography

Solo

;Albums *'' Queen of Siam'' (1980) *'' 13.13'' (1981) *''

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'' (1987) *''Unearthly Delights'' (1992) *''Twisted'' (1992) *'' Matrikamantra'' (1997) *'' Smoke in the Shadows'' (2004) *''Retrovirus'' (live, 2013) *''Urge to Kill (as Lydia Lunch Retrovirus)'' (2015) ;EPs *'' Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is the Ecstacy'' (split with the Birthday Party, 1982) *'' In Limbo'' (1984) ;Singles * "No Excuse" (1997) ;Compilation albums *''

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'' (1986) *'' Widowspeak'' (1998) * ''Deviations on a Theme'' (2006) ;Video albums * ''Willing Victim (The Audience as Whipping Boy)'' (live in Graz, Austria, 2004)

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks

;EPs * '' Pre Teenage Jesus and the Jerks'' (1979) ;Singles * "Baby Doll" (1979) * "Orphans" (1979) ;Compilation albums * ''

'' (1979) * '' Everything'' (1995) * ''Shut Up and Bleed'' (2008) ;Appears on * '' No New York'' (1978)

Beirut Slump

* "Try Me" (1979)

8-Eyed Spy

;Albums * ''8-Eyed Spy'' (1981; reissued as Luncheone in 1995) * ''Live'' (1981) ;Singles * "

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" (1980)

Harry Crews

* ''Naked in Garden Hills'' (1987)

Big Sexy Noise

* ''Big Sexy Noise'' (2009) * ''Trust the Witch'' (2011)

Collaborations

* ''

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'' with

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(EP, 1982) * ''

The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton ''The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton'' an album by Lydia Lunch and Lucy Hamilton. It was released in 1985 through Widowspeak. It is the soundtrack to the Richard Kern film ''The Right Side of My Brain''. Content '' Trouser Press'' wrote that the ...

'' with Lucy Hamilton (EP, 1985) * ''

Heart of Darkness ''Heart of Darkness'' (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The no ...

'' with

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(EP, 1985) * ''The Crumb'' with Thurston Moore (EP, 1987) * ''

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'' with Clint Ruin (EP, 1987) * ''

Don't Fear the Reaper "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album ''Agents of Fortune.'' The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitabili ...

'' with Clint Ruin (EP, 1991) * ''

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'' with Rowland S. Howard (1991) * ''Transmutation + Shotgun Wedding Live in Siberia'' with Rowland S. Howard (1994) * ''The Desperate Ones'' with Glyn Styler (EP, 1997) * ''Champagne, Cocaïne & Nicotine Stains'' with Anubian Lights (EP, 2002) * '' Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch'' with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (EP, 2007) * ''U Turn'' with

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(EP, 2008) * ''Lydia Lunch and Philippe Petit'' – (2011) * ''A Fistful of Desert Blues'' with Cypress Grove (2014) * ''Twin Horses'' with Cypress Grove (2014) a split album with Spiritual Front * ''Under the Covers'' with Cypress Grove (2017)

Appears on

* ''

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'', James White and the Blacks (1979) * ''Der Karibische Western'', Die Haut (EP, 1982) * ''Thirsty Animal'',

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(EP, 1982) * "Boy-Girl",

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( 1983) * ''Dagger & Guitar'', Sort Sol (1983) * " Death Valley '69",

(1984) * '' A Dozen Dead Roses'',

(LP, 1985) * ''Death Valley '69'', Sonic Youth (EP, 1986) * ''King of the Jews'', Oxbow (1991) * ''13 Above the Night'', My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (LP, 1993) * ''Dirty Little Secrets: Music to Strip By'', My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (LP, 1999) * ''Head On'', Die Haut (1992) * ''Sweat'', Die Haut (1992) * ''Unhealthy'', Lab Report (1994) * ''

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'', The Foetus Symphony Orchestra (1997) * ''Brooklyn Bank'', Here (1998) * ''OperettAmorale'' (compilation tribute album to

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, 2005) * ''The Impossibility of Silence'', Black Sun Productions (2006) * ''Ankitoner Metamars'', Ankitoner Metamars (2007) * " Frankie Teardrop", '' Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series'' (2008) * ''We Are Only Riders'', The

Sessions Project (2010) * ''The Journey Is Long'', The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (2012) * ''Axels & Sockets'', The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (2014) * ''Synthetic Love Dream'', David Lackner (2014) * ''Trouble in Paradise'', Drrty Pharms (2017)

Spoken word

*''Better an Old Demon Than a New God'', Giorno Poetry Systems comp. feat. 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.

, 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) *''Kicks Joy Darkness'', feat. Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's work performed by other various artists (1997) *''The Devil's Racetrack'' (2000) *''Flood Stains'', w. Juan Azulay (2010) *''Medusa's Bed'', w. Zahra Mani & Mia Zabelka (2013) *''Marchesa'', solo (Rustblade, 2018)

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

(1978) *''Beauty Becomes the Beast'': Directed by Vivienne Dick (1979) *''The Offenders'' (1979–1980): Directed by

*''Liberty's Booty'' (1980) *''Subway Riders'': Directed by

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(1981) *''The Wild World of Lydia Lunch'': Directed by Nick Zedd (1983) *''Like Dawn to Dust'': Directed by Vivienne Dick (1983) *''

'': Directed by Scott and Beth B (1983) *''Submit to Me'': Directed by

(1985) *''The Right Side of My Brain'': Directed by Richard Kern (1985) *''Fingered'': Directed by Richard Kern (1986) *''Hardcore Extended'': Richard Kern (includes all movies of R. Kern with L. Lunch) (DVD / Le Chat qui Fume, 2008) *''Barbecue Death Squad from Hell'' with Penn & Teller (1986) *'' Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends'' (1987) *''

Mondo New York ''Mondo New York'' is a 1988 Mondo film directed by Harvey Nikolai Keith. The documentary film was inspired by the 1963 movie '' Mondo Cane''. Overview ''Mondo New York'' examines the lives and activities of Manhattan performance artists, and fe ...

'' (1987) *''Invisible Thread'': Directed by Bob Balaban (1987) *''Kiss Napoleon Goodbye'': Directed by Babeth vanLoo (1990) *''The Road to God Knows Where'': Directed by Uli M. Schüppel (1990) *''Thanatopsis'': Directed by Beth B (1991) *''Visiting Desire'': Directed by Beth B (1996) *''Power of the Word'' (1996) *''

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things ''The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'' is a 2004 drama film co-written and directed by Asia Argento and starring Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse (with Bennett and the Sprouse brothers sharing the role as Jeremiah). ...

'': Directed by

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(2004) *'' Kill Your Idols'': Directed by

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, also known as S.A. Crary (2004) *''Psychomentsrum'' (unreleased) *'' Godkiller: Walk Among Us'' (2010): Voice role *''Mutantes: punk, porn, feminism'': Directed by

(2011) *''Autoluminescent'': Directed by

Richard Lowenstein Richard Lowenstein (born 1 March 1959) is an Australian filmmaker. He has written, produced and directed: feature films, including ''Strikebound'' (1984), ''Dogs in Space'' (1986) and ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'' (2001); music videos ...

(2011) *''Blank City'': Directed by Celine Danhier (2012) *'' Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over'': Directed by

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(2019)

Writer

*''The Right Side of My Brain'' (1985) *''Fingered'' (1986)

Composer

*''The Offenders'' (1980) *''Vortex'' (1983) (with 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) *''Disturbtion'' (2015)

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 (2005) *''

Wild Tigers I Have Known ''Wild Tigers I Have Known'' is a 2006 coming of age drama film written, edited, produced and directed by Cam Archer and starring Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Max Paradise, Fairuza Balk, Kim Dickens, and Tom Gilroy. The film follows Logan, a l ...

'', (Scenes Deleted), dir. Cam Archer (2006)

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(both written, acted, directed and produced with Emilio Cubeiro) *''South of Your Border'' (1988) *''Smell of Guilt'' (1990)

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*''Adulterers Anonymous'' (1982 with Exene Cervenka) *''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 Ted McKeever (born 1960 in New York City)McKeever entry
Grand Comics Database. Retrieved Dec. 30, 2021. is an ...

) *''Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary'' Creation Books, 1999 *''The Gun is Loaded''

Black Dog Publishing Black Dog Publishing was a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photograp ...

London UK, 2007 *''Will Work for Drugs'' Akashic, 2009 *''The Need to Feed: Recipes for Developing a Healthy Obsession with Deeply Satisfying Foods''

RCS MediaGroup RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, n ...

Universe imprint, 2012 *''So Real it Hurts'', introduction by

Anthony Bourdain Anthony Michael Bourdain (; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourda ...

Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company. Based in New York City, the company was founded by Dan Simon in 1995, after establishing Four Walls Eight Windows in 1984 as an imprint at Writers and Readers, and then incorpo ...

, 2019

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