THAT WAS THEN

Death of the Reel, a film by Benjamin Meade narrated by Lydia Lunch, was awarded Best Experimental Film at the Arizona Film Festival 2008

Lydia provided the soundtrack for Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls, a film by Maria Beatty to be released in 2009

Amnesia, a Spanish-English book featuring photos and text by Lydia Lunch and a companion CD featuring music by Jacob Kirkegaard, will be released in May 2009

To be published by Akashic Books in July 2009, Will Work For Drugs is an anthology of short stories by Lydia Lunch.

Lydia contributed to Punk Fiction, an anthology of short stories inspired by Punk. The book will be published by Portico and is a tie-in with Teenage Cancer Trust.

The classic Lydia Lunch album QUEEN OF SIAM is being re-released in March 2009 by Cherry Red (Europe) and Atavistic (USA).

BIG SEXY NOISE!!!!

LYDIA LUNCH, JAMES JOHNSTON, TERRY EDWARDS & IAN WHITE

RAUNCHY ROCK FOR THE ROUGH ROAD AHEAD!

BIG SEXY NOISE was bound to happen.

Lydia Lunch has collaborated with Terry Edwards, James Johnston & Ian White in a variety of musical guises for the last ten years.

From Hangover Hotel and Smoke in the Shadows to the most recent multimedia performances of Real Pornography and The Ghosts of Spain, the three rabble rousers (known collectively as Gallon Drunk) have in a series of ever morphing configurations collaborated with Lydia in creating psycho ambient sound scapes in the service of propelling forth spoken word exorcisms in her decades long prophecies of societal collapse, moral bankruptcy, and global corruption.

And according to the No Wave Nostradamus herself "It's time to stop complaining, quit your crying and embrace the coming End Times. Let's fucking rock."

Listen to it here

TWIST OF FATE

Upcoming full length CD

Lydia Lunch and Philippe Petit

Twist of Fate, like an undulating womb which seductively welcomes yet threatens to also terrify provides a perfect showcase for the multifaceted talents of Philippe Petit and Lydia Lunch

Listen to it here

AMNESIA

Soft cover artist book + CD, 2009

Contemporanea and propost.org (Barcelona) have edited "Amnesia." This Lydia Lunch's new publication reflects her new poems (English / Spanish) and photographs and is accompanied by a CD, "Forget to Breathe", recorded together with Danish musician Jacob Kirkegaard. Also includes "Ghosts of Spain", a musical video with Mark Cunningham and Lydia Lunch's images, text and voice. The book-CD is a testimony to the human horrors that Lydia Lunch has always condemned. Text, sound, photography and video on the same cry against history and oblivion.

Purchase it here

WILL WORK FOR DRUGS

Lydia Lunch's second book will provoke rage, awe, and infectious desire.

"Lydia Lunch is an American icon." --Austin American-Statesman

"Hubert Selby, Jr. famously said that he grew up feeling like a scream without a mouth. Lydia Lunch, one of his most celebrated--and most uncompromising--literary progeny, delivered scream mouth, teeth, blood, hair, sperm, knife, and adrenaline . . ." --Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

FRANKIE TEARDROP

LTD of 2000 10" Vinyl (PTYT 024)

A Lydia Lunch - Frankie Teardrop (5:33)

B Suicide - Frankie Teardrop vs the Space Alien
1976 Demo ( 13:04)

Lydia Lunch vocals, David Knight sounds

Find it at Blast First Petit

MASTER ALCHEMIST

Vinyl Single

A1 Lydia Lunch by Solvent - Master Alchemist I

A2 Lydia Lunch by Jori Hulkkonen - Master Alchemist II

Find it at Echoism

Lydia Lunch
GHOSTS OF SPAIN

CD
Widowspeak

An intimate home recording lush with psycho - poetic soundscapes.

Lydia Lunch with H.O.F
When I'm Loaded 7"

1. When I'm Loaded
2. Crawl 'N Cry
3. God'd Other Son

Limited Edition of 400 (Free CD included)

This unholy matrimony marries the gut punching snuff rock of legendary noise brutarians Halo of Flies to Lydia's nasty caterwauling creating a horribly seductive trauma-scape of aural battery. Beautifully vicious. Buy now or cry later.

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Shut Up And Bleed CD

In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artist's Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive and extraordinarily bold debuts of the time. Here we compiled all Teenage Jesus and The Jerks recordings, alongside some never previously released live material.

USA: Atavistic

EU: Cherry Red

PARADOXIA
A Predator's Diary

The unspeakable sexual confessions of underground legend Lydia Lunch.

"Paradoxia reveals that Lunch is at her best when she's at her worst . . . and gives voice to her sometimes scary, frequently funny, always canny, never sentimental siren song."
--Barbara Kruger, ArtForum

"Hubert Selby, Jr. famously said that he grew up feeling like a scream without a mouth. Lydia Lunch, one of his most celebrated-- and most uncompromising--literary progeny, delivered scream, mouth, teeth, blood, hair, sperm, knife, and adrenaline in her purgatorial masterpiece Paradoxia."
--Jerry Stahl, from the introduction

"Paradoxia is compelling, exhilarating, and infinitely readable."
--Paper

Akashic Books

THE GUN IS LOADED

Since bursting onto the scene in late 1970s New York, Lydia Lunch's confrontational music, art, literature and spoken word performances have been at the forefront of underground American culture. The Gun is Loaded is a provocative journey into the vision of one of America's most fearless and pioneering underground artists.

Infused with her apocalyptic vision of American spiritual collapse and the violence of sexuality, Lydia's uncompromising work has defied categorisation and been largely under-represented in mainstream media. The Gun is Loaded fills this gap, narrating her evolution from No Wave singer and performer, through art-house actor, to spoken word poet and celebrated author. Featuring prose, poems and narrative alongside her own recent photography projects and a visually stunning collection of archive material, The Gun is Loaded is a provocative and powerful book.

Black Dog Publishing

VIDEO HYSTERIE
1978 - 2006

This retrospective of Lydia Lunch's musical collaborations from 1978-2006 is an incredible representation of her approach to art. Hailed by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 90's", no other artist of the 20th century has fought, forged, punched, and sculpted their own artistic vision in such a uniquely original way. Defying categorization, Lunch actively has conquered new territories, and has gained international recognition for the innovative quality of her work. Robert Palmer from THE NEW YORK TIMES writes "Miss Lunch was always an effective vocal performer. But rock has grown complacent again -- even the underground rock that has borrowed so much from Miss Lunch's various bands over the years. Perhaps it's time for her to administer it a few more rude shocks." This DVD is sure to please anyone in search of change of pace, a stray from the norm.

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