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Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is a controversial American singer, artist, poet, writer, photographer, and actress. Her extensive, 30-year-plus body of multimedia work is characterized by its extreme obsessiveness with the darkness of the human psyche, often focusing on nihilism, rage, violence, eroticism, surrealism, and pornographic art as key points of topic.

After arriving in New York City at the age of 16, she worked as a bar maid and go-go dancer at the Baby Doll Lounge on White street in Tribeca. Lydia met Suicide (who become her first friend in NYC) and Willy DeVille (who gave her the name ‘Lunch’ because she’d often been stealing lunch for The Dead Boys). Then she moved in for about a year with then-boyfriend James Chance (born James Siegfried) who had come to New York (from Milwaukee) in the last week of 1975. They lived at a funky two-room fifth-floor walk-up apartment on East 2nd street (between Avenue A and B) and at a tiny storefront on Twelfth street.

Lunch moved into a large communal household of artists and musicians in NYC, including Kitty Bruce, daughter of Lenny Bruce. After befriending the ‘godfathers of punk’ Suicide at Max’s Kansas City, she founded the short-lived but influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in 1976 with her artistic partner, James Chance.
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  • matt_white

    as if anyone wants to sexualise this hideous aids-ridden dog

    18 May 1:34pm Reply

  • sunheadbowed

    Gotta laugh at the little boys here sexualising Lydia Lunch. She would make them shake and cry with mere words.

    13 May 12:02am Reply

  • Auland

    Now that I watched her Nardwuar interview I hate her, not even the kind of hate you like having for a person. Her personality is deplorable but I still enjoy her music here and there.

    30 Apr 4:35am Reply

  • epiphanygene

    selling my copy of Lydia's "The Devil's Racetrack" spoken word album here if anyone's interested (UK only Im afraid) - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281093843334

    15 Apr 2:08pm Reply

  • HimitsuUK

    Nice

    12 Apr 2:56pm Reply

  • adrynalyna

    Glad I found her. Thank you lastfm!

    14 Mar 6:45pm Reply

  • KaKoDeMoN

    очень да

    9 Feb 4:21am Reply

  • Overture1383

    Что-то в ней есть, определенно

    30 Jan 11:27am Reply

  • MikeMoldao

    She's the best. Her Nardwar interview is my favourite interview of all time.

    29 Jan 10:12am Reply

  • bibowns

    I don't even care what she did for no-wave or whatever. She's a cunt in both the narduwar interview and the joe rogan video

    28 Jan 7:40am Reply

  • Eli_Teixeira

    Just saw her Nardwuar interview, this lady is not the worst person that's ever lived but she lost her place on my "cool people list". I don't like people who take themselves too serious and Nardwuar wasn't being that much of offensive. Did it really hurt her so much to laugh a bit and play along? :/

    11 Jan 4:56pm Reply

  • ohh1972

    Gross.

    11 Jan 12:14pm Reply

  • matt_white

    Just saw her Nardwuar interview, this lady is the worst person that's ever lived [3]

    21 Dec 2012 Reply

  • electrobaboon

    Just saw her Nardwuar interview, this lady is the worst person that's ever lived [2]

    21 Dec 2012 Reply

  • LMW87

    Just saw her Nardwuar interview, this lady is the worst person that's ever lived

    21 Dec 2012 Reply

  • matt_white

    I'd eat her lunch if you know what I mean

    17 Dec 2012 Reply

  • RussellChap

    Who want's to be liked? Being liked means you've been compromised...

    30 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Argamocrypt

    Another fascinatingly intellectual discourse from last.fm

    30 Oct 2012 Reply

  • memristor

    ya whatever "folkfag00" we'll trust you and your Beatles shirt avatar

    29 Sep 2012 Reply

  • folkfag00

    hanging out with the birthday party paves you the way to release at least one decent album to pour out everything you've kept inside. too bad lydia didn't keep much aside from her cool persona and her sultry voice

    12 Sep 2012 Reply
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