Lydia Lunch live in concert.
ON TOUR

Lydia Lunch

20
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

69
%
Based on 
20
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
69
%
Based on 
4
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Based on 20 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Lydia Lunch is rated as a neither good nor bad live performer, with shows that lack distinction. Lydia Lunch concert reviews describe live shows and performances as melodic, emotional, noisy, and vibrant.

ON TOUR

Uus Laine, Tallinn, Estonia (May 17); Telakka, Tampere, Finland (May 19); Hietsun paviljonki, Helsinki, Finland (May 20); Validi Karkia, Pori, Finland (May 22); El Sol, Madrid, Spain (June 25); Winter Gardens, Blackpool, United Kingdom (August 1);

Latest Release

The War Is Never Over (November 4, 2021)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Rochester, United States (6/2/1959) (6/2/1959)
Bio
Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is a controversial American post-punk singer, spoken word artist, poet, writer, photographer, and actress.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Scenestr (Australia)

March 15, 2024
%
Last touring Australia four years ago just prior to the pandemic shutdowns – with her suitably named band Retrovirus playing retrospective shows and promoted at the time as being the last Australian shows ever (the band has subsequently been dissolved) – it is a welcome return for the influential Lydia Lunch

God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

November 14, 2023
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Lydia Lunch Sings Suicide featuring Marc Hurtado – The Hope & Ruin, Brighton, 11/11/2023

Louder Than War (UK)

November 7, 2023
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Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado Perform the Music of Suicide and Alan Vega - Deaf Institute, Manchester - 6th November 2023

Louder Than War (UK)

October 27, 2023
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Lydia Lunch and David J | Position Nuit; Los Angeles Monty Bar; Oct 2024

The AU Review (Australia)

March 2, 2020
80
%
Level five of the RCC is effectively the old Adelaide Uni Bar. There are still the same issues if you walk up the wrong stairs.

Louder Than War (UK)

September 14, 2019
%
The Kings Arms is a pub on the Manchester/Salford fringe, the perfect location for outsider artist Lydia Lunch to present a night of Verbal Burlesque. ‘Lydia Lunch presents Verbal Burlesque’.

The Scotsman (Scotland)

March 19, 2019
60
%
Lydia Lunch, veteran of and witness to the New York punk scene, was last seen in these parts taking the Edinburgh International Festival’s Light on the Shore season by the scruff of the neck with her uncompromising spoken word testaments.

Past critic reviews published in

Ink 19 (USA), The 13th Floor (New Zealand), The Skinny (UK), musicOMH (UK), Undertoner (Denmark) and more

Image Credit

[CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons