IVW: Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado + Venus Fly Trap

SBD and Spiral Archive present

LYDIA LUNCH & MARC HURTADO

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2ND

An Independent Venue Week show

LYDIA LUNCH & MARC HURTADO plays SUICIDE and Alan Vega songs

“Lydia Lunch is the High Priestess/Queen/Godhead of New York Punk” - LOUDER THAN WAR

Lydia Lunch, a teenage runaway first crossed paths with Alan Vega and Martin Rev when she arrived in New York aged 16 in the mid-70’s; she saw them perform as Suicide a collision of avant-garde performance art and minimalistic rock that pre-dated punk. Lunch has since described the performance as ‘a total show, theatrical, free, violent’. Since that initial meeting Lunch formed an enduring friendship with Rev and Vega, at one point she looked upon the duo as her adoptive parents, the later only ending when Vega passed away in July 2016.

Lunch also formed a creative partnership with Vega and Rev, she has previously performed on stage with Suicide and provided additional vocals on the legendary track ‘Frankie Teardrop’ which was part of the Suicide debut album, as well as duetting with Vega on ‘Prison Sacrifice’ which featured on the 2010 ‘Sniper’ album from Alan Vega & Marc Hurtado.

Marc Hurtado, had already met Alan Vega and Lydia Lunch on  his Etant Donnés ‘s RE-UP  album Be in 1999 and  he formed the project My Lover The Killer in 2013 with Lydia Lunch , with whom they recorded an album and play on stage.

Since 2014 Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado join forces for this event around Suicide and Alan Vega songs , it will be a kind of sonic "Blitzkrieg" and a visual shamanic ceremony, where both artists  will  burn their souls in the volcanic heart of the music of  Suicide and Alan Vega.

Lydia Lunch is a nomadic gypsy in eternal metamorphosis that almost lost her life  for  her art dozens of times in 35 years. Musician, writer, photographer and performance artist, she appeared in the New York music scene in 1977 with the project founder No Wave, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In search of inspiration and cooperation she worked with Karen Finley, Hubert Selby Jr, Nick Cave, William Burroughs or Virginie Despentes, she lived in New York, Brooklyn, New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, London. She has visited 656 cities to perform on stage for concerts, spoken word, installations in clubs, theaters and museums. 

Marc Hurtado is a musician, performer, poet, painter, producer and filmmaker who co-founded the French duo ETANT DONNES with his brother Eric in 1977. He has made more than 20 albums and concerts around the world in places like Kitchen ( New York), the Fondation Cartier (Paris), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Sonar Festival (Barcelona), the Atonal Festival (Berlin), or Transmusicales (Rennes). Apart from this duo and solo project Sol Ixent, he has collaborated with many cult figures including  Alan Vega, Genesis P.Orridge, Michael Gira (Swans), Gabi Delgado (DAF), Craig Walker ( Archive) , Pascal Comelade,  Z'ev, Philippe Grandrieux, Christophe, Saba Komossa (Delkom), Mark Cunningham (MARS), Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. His films were screened in Beaubourg Paris , FID Marseille, the French Cinematheque in Paris, the Locarno Film Festival, BAFICI Festival Buenos Aires, Mostra de Valencia  and  recently at the MoMA in New York, which also acquired his latest feature film "Jajouka, something good comes to you" in his collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24g4RHDh_k

https://www.lydia-lunch.net

https://www.facebook.com/LydiaLunch

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3aSkzI3DQrdPtYXizXnwda?si=x80QU4TRSkKOGO2g0sHYZQ

https://www.instagram.com/lydia.lunch.official

Support from VENUS FLY TRAP

Electro Post Punk from Northampton

Review of Time Lapse 1989 - 1994 “This is the true avant-garde sound, but it came about when the term no longer had the impact it had in the early eighties. Compilation that seeks the most emblematic moments of the three albums ("Totem", "Pandora's Box" and "Luna Tide") edited in the period indicated by the title. Post-punk, gothic rock and a dose of experimentalism that make us have a set of songs that is both dated and emblematic of a genre that has a very specific spirit”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjjrBkaCALY

https://www.facebook.com/thevenusflytrapuk

@ The Lab

95 Charles St, Northampton NN1 3BG

Doors 7pm, music from 7.45pm