Though a confusing number of anthologies and reissues were released during this time, Lunch continued to produce a large volume of new material, highlighted by ' The Devil's Racetrack' (2000), ' Memory and Madness' (co-credited to Gallon Drunk's Terry Edwards, 2003), ' Willing Victim' (2005), ' Touch My Evil' (with Anubian Lights, 2006). Howard in 1991, ' Shotgun Wedding', plus her acting career in underground films, Lunch concentrated on the spoken word arena into the '90s a three-CD retrospective of this aspect of her career, ' Crimes Against Nature', was issued in 1993, and Lunch continued her activities throughout the decade.ĭuring the first decade of the 2000s, she switched primarily between spoken word and music -though she continued to publish her writing and, occasionally, acted- evidently as inspired and active as she was during the first years of her career. Aside from an EP with ex- Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. That same year, Lunch teamed with Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon in Harry Crews, a one-off, all-female noise rock band, for the LP ' Naked in Garden Hills'. L ydia Lunch stormed through San Francisco last week, arousing and assaulting audiences with two ferocious spewings from her porn confessional novel. The two also released the ' Stinkfist' EP under Thirlwell's Clint Ruin alias in 1989. Her next collaboration was the first of several with Jim 'Foetus' Thirlwell, who remixed a shelved project with Birthday Party members from 1982-1983 it was issued as ' Honeymoon in Red' in 1987. Lunch founded her own Widowspeak label in 1985, immediately delving into spoken word with the EP ' The Uncensored Lydia Lunch' and reissuing much of her back catalog, including a two-CD retrospective, ' Hysterie', in 1986. But it was the time of post-Patti Smith rock poetry, which I didnt want to do, and pre-slam poetry, which was not what Im about, either.

After 1982's ' 13.13', which featured former members of The Weirdos, Lunch began a rash of collaborations, working with The Birthday Party on the EP ' The Agony Is the Ecstasy', as well as Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut, Sort Sol, Swans' Michael Gira, and members of Sonic Youth. No, I had the intention of coming to New York to do spoken word.

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