Lydia Lunch
23 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, Winter 1989
The morning after a London performance, Ms Lunch discusses herself as a spoken word performer and artist: being censored; confronting issues such as abuse of women; her pleasure at being on the margins; other spoken word performers like Henry Rollins and Karen Finley; how she came to music via lyrics, and about the confrontational nature of audiences.
File format: mp3; total file size: 45.5mb, total interview length: 47' 21" sound quality: ****
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Teenage Jesus and the Jerks: Out To Lunch
Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, July 1978
A Dialogue between Roy Trakin and Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks ...
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980
AMERICA TODAY: the old and the new. Play these in a row... ...
Report by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, May 1980
IF LYDIA LUNCH'S Queen Of Siam hadn't come out when it did, I'd probably still be freezin' my butt off in Ketchum, Idaho, a town ...
ZE Night: Hurrah, New York City
Profile by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, June 1980
THE RICH ARE different from you and me, my friends. While we content ourselves with free promos and an occasional "plus-one" at a local bistro, ...
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 15 August 1981
Richard Grabel lays on the red carpet treatment for his Lunch date ...
Lydia Lunch & 13.13: O.N. Klub, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, September 1981
THE O.N. KLUB, at the very far end of the entertainment turf strung along Sunset Boulevard, has the feel of a biker's bar gone cool ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 December 1981
The Lunch that made me sick ...
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, November 1982
IN A BUSINESS where women singers are a dime a dozen these days (and trite women singers the norm), Lydia Lunch can be proud of ...
Lydia Lunch: Listen with Lydia
Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 18 June 1983
Settle back in your couch and listen to Lydia Lunch — former New York No Wave sewer queen, would-be agony aunt, chanteuse, the Bette Midler ...
Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth: University Of London Union
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 7 June 1986
HUMBLE PIE time. Just when I'd neatly dismissed them from my mind as Grand Funk Railroad with a degree in Modern Art and a copy ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 June 1986
Defender of the Filth. Talking dirty or sex therapy? JACK BARRON gets his beret unscrewed by New York's first lady of sleaze, LYDIA LUNCH. ...
Lydia Lunch: Scream Until You Like It
Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 23 September 1989
After 13 years of howling into the void, Lydia Lunch is still going strong. Keith Cameron finds out what fuels her anger. ...
Lydia Lunch (1989) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Winter 1989
This is a transcript of Martin's interview with Lydia. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Spoken Word: Jello Biafria, Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins
Report and Interview by Martin Aston, The Independent, Winter 1989
ONCE UPON a time, people took to the stage without the blast of music behind them, and people would take them seriously. Poetry and the ...
To Thrill A Mockingbird: Lydia Lunch and Rowland Howard
Interview by Susan Compo, Siren, 1992
Lydia Lunch, currently doing the rounds with a collaborative Rowland S. Howard, is really in action Stateside, standing in opposition to the Ku Klux Klan. ...
Lydia Lunch: Paradoxia – A Predator's Diary (Creation Books)
Book Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 2 November 1997
Gentlemen, you have been warned — Lydia Lunch isn't for wimps ...
The Bottom Line: Everett True meets Lydia Lunch
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, February 2005
"I ALWAYS BRING my prophylactic along on touragainst other people's germs — the mic cover. If you smell mics, you know why. They're raunchy. When ...
Lydia Lunch: My Life As A Work In Progress
Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 7 October 2008
Alex Ogg sets the tape running and stands back in awed silence as New York no wave shit-kicker Lydia Lunch reflects on life as a ...
No Wave: Histories Along The Bowery
Interview by Olly Beck, Garageland, 30 November 2008
The New York No Wave Movement: More Punk than Punk. Olly Beck talks to Thurston Moore ...
Lydia Lunch: Lexington, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 22 March 2016
Lunch unites with Gallon Drunk's James Johnston and Ian White for the most joyfully bawdy music of her career. ...
Lydia Lunch's Infinite Rebellion
Profile and Interview by Jim Farber, The New York Times, 28 June 2021
FOR NEARLY two hours on a recent afternoon, Lydia Lunch sat in her bright Brooklyn apartment and spoke with bracing speed, and at an alarming ...
see also 8-Eyed Spy
see also Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
see also Harry Crews
see also Beirut Slump
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