Lydia lunch

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Lydia Lunch at Club W71 , November 2011
Lydia Lunch at a concert in 2005

Lydia Lunch (* 2. June 1959 as Lydia Anne Koch in Rochester, New York ) is an American singer, poet and actress.

In 1977 she formed the short-lived no wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks . She then started a solo career and worked with JG Thirlwell (Foetus), Kim Gordon , Rowland S. Howard , Michael Gira , The Birthday Party , the Einstürzende Neubauten , Joseph Budenholzer ( Backworld ), Die Haut and Omar Rodriguez Lopez , among others .

In addition, she starred in several Underground - films , among others, Richard Kern , with and also gives Spoken Word -Vorstellungen.

Discography

music

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 with Michael Gira / Ecstatic Peace, 1984)
  • Oral fixation , solo (12 ", 1988)
  • Our Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven , with Henry Rollins , Hubert Selby Jr. and Don Bajema (1990)
  • Conspiracy of Women , solo (1990)
  • South of Your Border , with Emilio Cubeiro (1991)
  • POW , solo (1992)
  • Crimes Against Nature , solo spoken-word anthology (Tripple X / Atavistic, 1994)
  • Rude Hieroglyphics , with Exene Cervenka ( Rykodisc , 1995)
  • Universal Infiltrators , (Atavistic, 1996)
  • The Devil's Racetrack (2000)

Filmography

As an actress

  • She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
  • Guerrilla Talks (1978)
  • Black Box (1979)
  • Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979)
  • The Offenders (1979-1980)
  • Liberty's Booty (1980)
  • Subway Riders (1981)
  • Like Dawn to Dust (1983)
  • 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?)
  • Kiss Napoleon Goodbye (1990)
  • Thanatopsis (1991)
  • Visiting Desire (1996)
  • Power of the Word (1996)
  • The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
  • Psychomentsrum (not yet published)

As a director

  • Men in Orbit (1981)

As an author

  • The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
  • Fingered (1986)
  • Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary (1997), German: Paradoxie. Diary of a predator (Bremen 2000) ISBN 3-934790-00-3
  • Adulterers Anonymous (1996)
  • Incriminating evidence (1992), German: Incriminating evidence (Bremen 2000) ISBN 3-934790-01-1

As a composer

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

As a topic

  • 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)

As a narrator

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

bibliography

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Commons : Lydia Lunch  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Lunch, Lydia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Lydia Anne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, poet and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester, New York