Lydia Lunch: Full Life Interview

In this oral history Lydia Lunch discusses being saved by literature at a young age, running away from home to New York at 14, and inventing a new way of making art. Lunch talks about her creative process, performing in bands Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, 8 Eyed Spy, Beirut Slump, and Retrovirus, how she connects with other artists, and her inspiration for spoken word poetry. She talks about what art is and why it is important to her and others to create. The interview concludes with her thoughts on spirituality, relationships, and activism.

Lydia Lunch is a musician, poet, artist, author, and self described historian-journalist. She is best known for founding the seminal No Wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, her spoken word poetry and prolific discography. She continues to perform spoken word and in her band Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus. A documentary about her life, So Real It Hurts, was released in 2021.

Learn more at: WomenofRock.org
Lydia Lunch interviewed by Tanya Pearson for the Women of Rock Oral History Project
Filmed and edited by Sophia Cacciola

The Women of Rock Oral History Project is a collection of digital interviews and written transcripts, housed at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College—one of the oldest women’s history archives in the United States. Started by Tanya Pearson in December, 2014, WOROHP documents the lives and careers of women in rock whose work and careers have been underrepresented or omitted from rock journalism and historical scholarship. With a collection of publicized and accessible primary source documents, the Women of Rock Oral History Project seeks to facilitate a more comprehensive, inclusive, and accurate cultural history.

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