Ivw: Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado + Venus Fly Trap

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-70s; 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.