Lydia Lunch is one of the most uncompromising figures to emerge from the New York underground. First gaining attention with the no wave group Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in the late seventies, she quickly established herself as a singular voice through music, spoken word, film and literature. Her 1980 debut album Queen Of Siam set the tone for a career defined by honesty and rebellion. Across decades of collaborations and solo work, Lunch has remained a reference point for artists drawn to the darker, more confrontational edges of alternative culture.
Marc Hurtado is best known as one half of the French experimental duo Étant Donnés, formed in the late seventies with his brother Eric Hurtado. Deeply influenced by industrial music, musique concrète and transgressive art, Hurtado has spent decades exploring the intersection of sound, performance and visual art. His work has often engaged directly with themes of violence, eroticism and ritual, placing him firmly within the lineage of European avant garde and industrial culture.
In 2014, Lunch and Hurtado have joined forces to pay tribute to another foundational figure of underground music, Suicide. Formed in New York in the early seventies by Martin Rev on electronics and Alan Vega on vocals, Suicide stripped rock music down to its bare essentials, pairing primitive drum machines and synthesizers with confrontational performance art. Their influence can be traced through punk, electronic music, industrial and minimal wave. Outside the group, Vega pursued a prolific solo career that blended rockabilly, electronics and outsider art, while Rev continued to explore minimal electronic composition and production.
Lunch and Hurtado approach the Suicide catalog with deep respect and personal investment. Changes in instrumentation and vocal perspective naturally reshape the material, yet the core tension, repetition and emotional charge remain intact. Their new tour will make a stop at Supersonic Records in Paris on January 14th, 2026.
