| Teenage Jesus & The Jerks (1977) | Beirut Slump (1978) | Queen Of Siam (1979) |
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Early 1977 in New York City. Lydia and James Chance form a band with Bradley Field on drum (1 only) and Japanese guy Reck on bass. James Chance soon leaves and after 4 line-ups (the last one with Jim Sclavunos) they disband at the end of the European tour in July 1979. Reunited for 2 shows on 13-Jun-08. Discography and Chronology. |
A short-lived New York City project (late 1978 - June 1979) which co-existed with Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. With film maker Vivienne Dick, Bobby (a.k.a. 'Berkowitz') and Liz Swope (brother/sister from Florida) and Jim Sclavunos. They rehearse for 6 months, but end up doing only 3 live shows. Discography and Chronology. |
A Fall/Autumn 1979 solo studio project with guest musicians, a.o. Robert Quine [The Voidoids], George Scott III and Pat Irwin [both The Raybeats]. The 8-Eyed Spy tour of February 1980 actually promoted this album. Discography. |
| 8 Eyed Spy (1979) | Devil Dogs (1980) | 13.13 (1981) |
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A band formed in September 1979 in New York City with (bass player) George Scott III [The Contortions/The Raybeats]. Again Jim Sclavunos takes part, as well as Michael Paumgardhen and Pat Irwin [The Raybeats]. After George Scott overdoses on 05-Aug-80 the remaining bandmembers record 5 tracks at Bobby Blank's studio and then split up in October 1980. Discography and Chronology. |
A blues project with Jim Sclavunos that lasted only a few months, from November 1980 till February 1981 (at the end of an Italian tour). Based on 10-15 blues songs provided by Robert Quine [The Voidoids]. No official recordings. Discography and Chronology. |
Lydia moved to Los Angeles during August/September 1980 and the next year forms 13.13 which toured a lot and had many line-up changes. Initial line-up had (all ex-Weirdos) Dix Denney on guitar, Greg Williams on bass and Cliff Martinez on drums. She sacks them at the verge of the Nov-81 European tour and instead employs Murray Mitchell (guitar roadie of Siouxsie and the Banshees), Steven Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees) and Kristian Hoffman [The Mumps]. They break up in the UK early 1982. Discography and Chronology. |
| with R.S.Howard/Birthday Party (1982) | with Die Haut (1982) | In Limbo (1982) |
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Lydia met The Birthday Party in New York City during their October 1981 US tour. Between March and August 1982 she records and tours with their guitarist Rowland S.Howard and The Birthday Party in Europe. After their joint Shotgun Wedding project in 1991 they both perform together a few times more in 1993/94. Discography and Chronology. |
Lydia's relation with the Berlin instrumental band Die Haut started in 1982, resumed in 1990 and lasted until October 1992. Discography and Chronology. |
A project that existed only for short periods between October 1982 and April 1984. It resided in New York City, Europe and the UK and had 3 different line-ups. Jim Sclavunos was in all 3. Thurston Moore [Sonic Youth], Richard Edson [Sonic Youth], Pat Place [Bush Tetras] and Kristian Hoffman were the main others. Discography and Chronology. |
| Spoken Word (1982) | with Jim G.Thirlwell (1983) | Immaculate Consumptive (1983) |
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Together with Henry Rollins Lydia practically invented spoken word performances. She did her first spoken word show at the Lucky Strike Cafe, New York City on 04-Nov-82 and has done close to 400 to date, world-wide. She worked with Don Bajema, Exene Cervenka, Wanda Coleman, Emilio Cubeiro, Gene Gregorits, Karen Finley, Johnny Lanz, Josh Lazie, Henry Rollins, Hubert Selby Jr, Jerry Stahl, and many more.. Discography and Chronology. |
Lydia met (Melbourne born) Jim G.Thirlwell during The Birthday Party's European tour of June/July 1982, when he was doing their press. Her first recording with him dates from May 1983. Their collaboration lasted until July 1996. Discography. |
A brief collaboration between Lydia Lunch, Marc Almond, Jim G.Thirlwell (a.k.a. Clint Ruin) and Nick Cave who were at the time all residing in London. Limited to 3 live dates in the USA around Halloween 1983. Chronology. |
| with No Trend (1984) | Harry Crews (1988) | Shotgun Wedding (1991) |
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From May 1984 till April 1985 Lydia worked a few times with Jeff Mentges' Ashton (Maryland) based band No Trend. She also joined them for 3 live concerts. Discography and Chronology. |
A project based upon Georgia born writer Harry Crew's work which, except for rehearsals, only lasted for 13 live concerts in Europe in September 1988. Kim Gordon [Sonic Youth] on bass and (wrestler) Sadie Mae (a.k.a. Lisa Timocich) on drums were the 2 others in the live line-up. Pat Place was in the initial line-up. A live album from the tour documents this band. Discography and Chronology. |
A band with Rowland S.Howard, his brother Harry and -once more- Jim Sclavunos as the core. The band was initially named Gashouse and located in (Lydia's then preferred city) New Orleans. Later they renamed themselves Shotgun Wedding and recorded an album in Memphis in May 1991. They did 2 main tours in November 1991 (Europe) and September 1994 (Australia). Discography and Chronology. |
| Matrikamantra (1997) | with Anubian Lights (2001) | Willing Victim (2003) |
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Homage to Romanian philosopher poet EM Cioran. A project with Joseph Budenholzer [Backworld] that started as a live performance in Prague (CZ) in March 1997 and the recording of a studio album in New York City. The material was toured extensively. Terry Edwards was part of each live line-up. The last concert was in Belgium on 28-May-99. Discography and Chronology. |
Mid 2001, when she was residing in Los Angeles, Lydia Lunch started her collaboration with Tommy Grenas and Len Del Rio. The Anubian Lights toured this material until in 2002/2003 and another line-up did a few dates in Russia in March 2004. Evolved into the Smoke In The Shadows project. Discography and Chronology. |
A short career retrospective live concert series (in Europe and New York) with an all star line-up consisting out of: Nels Cline on guitar, Algis Kizys [Swans,Foetus] on bass , Norman Westberg [Swans] on guitar and Vinnie Signorelli [Foetus,Unsane] on drums. Documented on video Videography Chronology. |
| Smoke In The Shadows (2004) | The Real Pornography (2006) | Hangover Hotel/Ghosts of Spain (2007) |
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Started in January 2000 as a studio project in Los Angeles with the recording for a big band jazz album initialy titled "Torcher". Toured in Europe with Terry Edwards in September/October 2001. In Spring 2003 the album ("Smoke In The Shadows") was completed in Los Angeles with The Annubian Lights. Toured extensively with several line-ups in 2004/2005 until the final performance at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK on 03-Dec-05. Discography and Chronology. |
Collaboration with (Spanish visual artist) Marc Viaplana. Audio/video spectacle operating out of Barcelona (Lydia's current home town). So far only live dates took place. Chronology. |
Soundscapes and visuals. Psychoambient music about sex, the desert, ghosts and the war. A collaboration that started initially with Mark Cunningham, Marc Viaplana and Les Aus. Discography and Chronology. |
| Various collaborations (1978) | Photo exhibitions/Installation works | ... |
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From 1978 (with James Chance) till 2007 (with H.O.F.) Lydia Lunch has collaborated with dozens of diverse artists. Discography. |
When living in New Orleans (1991-93) Lydia Lunch starts taking photographs. Later in Pittsburg (1995-99) she also creates voodoo boxes, voodoo dolls and body casts. In later years (2000-to date) installations, film stills and photo montages are created. Lydia's web site. |
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