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Lydia Lunch unpacks the raw origins of No Wave, her squatting-and-surviving New York story, and why after five decades of confrontational art, pleasure remains the ultimate rebellion.
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Lydia Lunch is touring Australia and New Zealand in June
She's performing Suicide and Alan Vega covers across multiple cities
Australia holds deep personal meaning — Roland S. Howard, Tex Perkins, lifelong friends
Lydia considers herself a comedian; most people are just too afraid to laugh
Words are her primary art — music is just the machine gun
She sleeps in two-hour shifts and wakes famished at 5am every day
Creativity has no fixed time — she writes song lyrics in five minutes flat
She self-publishes through 48-hour printing, selling books for $20, cost $4
True crime forensics and Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike are her guilty pleasures
Daily she rotates between war, politics, and apocalyptic comedy — Dear Ivanka included
She's actively promoting new bands: Genra's Death, Bog Creeper, New City Slang
Instrumental music — Budos Band, Yusef Lateef, Baba Zula — is her listening diet
Suicide and Mars were already playing when she arrived in New York
Suicide actually coined the term "punk rock" on flyers back in 1972
No Wave wasn't a movement — it was personal insanity in a decaying city
The name "No Wave" just came out of her mouth in one interview
If you couldn't play, you had to be brutally tight — or else
She taught a homeless man she'd befriended to play drums for Teenage Jesus
Teenage Jesus songs were written on a borrowed bass she barely understood
She squatted an abandoned Tribeca building, running electricity from neighbours to rehearse
Teenage Jesus singles on Migraine Records likely preceded the No New York compilation
Beirut Slump was horror rock — described as a slug over a razor blade
She arrived in New York with $200, a suitcase, and zero contacts
Seeing Suicide at Max's Kansas City with ten people changed everything instantly
Martin Rev gave teenage Lydia vitamins; Alan Vega was leather-bound and irresistible
She boycotted Bowie and Iggy in Rochester — accidentally saving them from a drug bust
Mick Ronson's Slaughter on 10th Avenue: the glam record Bowie quietly stole from
Lou Reed — always a dick; Warhol — vapid, but his car crashes were great
She owns every recording, every publishing right — everything she's ever made
Her reward for a lifetime of rebellion: pleasure, rage, and zero regrets
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