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Lydia Lunch

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Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York, also the birthplace of female alternative muscians Kim Gordon and Wendy O. Williams) is a New York singer, poet, writer, and actress.

Biography

After arriving in New York City at the age of 16, Lunch moved into a large communal household of artists and musicians, including Kitty Bruce, daughter of Lenny Bruce, where New Wave bands such as DNA and MARS would frequently play. She immediately saw this form of music as the proper forum for her angry poetry and rants, and founded the short-lived but influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus & the Jerks in 1976 with her then romantic and artistic partner, No Wave punk-funk-jazz musician James Chance. The duo later recorded the album 'Off White' (credited to James White and the Blacks, with 'Stella Rico') in 1978, before splitting up permanently.

A self-avowed 'confrontationalist' identified by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 90's", Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with such artists as J.G. Thirlwell, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave, Billy Ver Plank, Robert Quine, Sadie Mae, Rowland S. Howard, Michael Gira, The Birthday Party, Einstürzende Neubauten and Die Haut. She also acted in, wrote, and directed Underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground film maker and musician Richard Kern, and more recently has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, again collaborating with such artists as 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).

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.

Discography Music

Discography Spoken Word

  • Better An Old Demon Than A New God, compilation feat. William S. Burroughs, Psychic TV, Richard Hell and others (LP / Giorno Poetry Systems, 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)

Filmography Actress

  • Like Dawn to Dust (197?)
  • She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
  • Guerillere Talks (1978)
  • Black Box (1979)
  • Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979)
  • The Offenders (1979-1980)
  • Liberty's Booty (1980)
  • Subway Riders (1981)
  • Vortex (1983)
  • Submit to Me (1985)
  • The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
  • Fingered (1986)
  • Submit to Me Now (1987)
  • Mondo New York (1987)
  • Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread (1987)
  • Penn & Teller's BBQ Death Squad (198?)
  • Thanatopsis (1991)
  • Visiting Desire (1996)
  • Power of the Word (1996)
  • The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things (2004)
  • Psychomentsrum (unreleased)

Filmography Director

  • Men in Orbit (1981)

Filmography Writer

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

Filmography Composer

  • The Offenders (1980)
  • Vortex (1983)
  • The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
  • Goodbye 42nd Street (1986)
  • Fingered (1986)
  • I Pass for Human (2004)

Filmography 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)
  • 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)

Filmography Narrator

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

Bibliography

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

Comixography

Miscellany

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