1977
The year in which the band is founded. Recording of 3 songs ("The Closet", "Less Of Me" and "My Eyes").
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Lydia 'Lunch' Koch had moved from Rochester to New York City in 1976 (at the age of 16/17). She would live in NYC until August 1980.
She works as a bar maid/go-go dancer @ the Baby Doll Lounge on White street in Tribeca. Lydia meets Alan Vega and Martin Rev of Suicide (who become her first friends in NYC) and Willy DeVille (who gives her the name 'Lunch' because she's often stealing lunch for The Dead Boys).
Then she moves in for about a year with James Chance (born James Siegfried) who came to New York (from Milwaukee) in the last week of 1975. They live at a funky two-room fifth-floor walk-up apartment on East 2nd street (between Avenue A and B) and at a tiny storefront on Twelfth street.
The Scabs: After seeing China (pre Mars, with Connie Burg and Mark Cunningham -both came from St.Petersburg, Florida- and Sumner Crane and Nancy Arlen) in January 1977 at CBGB Lydia wants to form a band with James Chance called The Scabs. At CBGB Lydia and James meet a Japanese guitar player called Reck who was in the US on a tourist visa with his girlfriend Ikue Mori (a piano player who would become DNA's drummer). Lydia convinces Reck to play bass after trying him as a drummer (Reck's friend Chiko Hige later became briefly The Contortions' drummer). With Jody Harris [then of R&B combo The Loose Screws] (who moved to NYC from Lawrence, Kansas in 1974 and in 1978 became a member of The Contortions) on guitar they were rehearsing, one half songs written by James Chance (like "Dish It Out" and "Roving Eye") and the other half Lydia’s. They never really find a suitable drummer and it doesn't really work out.
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks: In the spring of 1977 Lydia convinces Bradly Field to join her band on drums. Bradly Field had just moved to NYC from Cleveland,Ohio, half a year after his Cleveland friend Miriam Linna [early Cramps drummer], who's renting an apartment above a hardware store on 12th Street and First Avenue that she ends up sharing with Lydia Lunch and Bradly Field. By May 1977 the 3 move to a cold water basement storefront on Warren Street in the Wall Street neighborhood of Manhattan, which also serves as a rehearsal space (named 'The Hole' or 'The Home For Teenage Dirt') for The Cramps. Initially The Cramps share this place with Teenage Jesus but later Lydia and Sumner Crane [from Mars, who died on April 14, 2003 from lymphoma] find another above an abandoned Chinese movie theater on Delancey street. It is a small two story building and they have the entire second floor. Its back door opens onto an abandoned Synagogue, and much of their furniture comes from there. Bradly moves in with them and got Peter Crowley's [Max's Kansas City booker] old bed. Lydia and Sumner set the loft up as a practice space. Teenage Jesus, The Mumps [with Kristian Hoffman], Mars and DNA (with Gordon Stevenson his wife Mirielle Cervenka [older sister Exene of LA band X]) and other artists who would become part of the 'No Wave' movement all rehearse there. The next year, around June 1978, Bradly moves in with Kristian Hoffman [later in Lydia's Devil Dogs] @ a loft Bradly found on 240 Grand street, about two blocks away from the Chinese movie theater, where both would live there together for 7 years (from 1978-1984). Bradly kept the place for one more year (1985) after Kristian moved out and left New York for California.
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Line-up #1 (New York City: spring 1977 - August 1977):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ James Chance (sax/vocals)/ Reck (bass) & Bradly Field (one snare drum/one cymbal)
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2x-Jun-77
US NY,New York City,CBGB,Audition night/showcase
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice June 1977, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
Note: Their first concert. Either on the 20th or the 27th.
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09/10-Jul-77
US NY,New York City,The Village Gate
[with The Feelies and The Patti Smith Group]
Note: For some time in 1977 Jay Dee Daugherty (formerly in the Mumps with Kristian Hoffman [in 1980 in Lydia Lunch's Devil Dogs] and then drummer for the Patti Smith Group) was doing their sound. Which resulted in TJ&TJ sharing the bill with the Patti Smith Group a few times.
Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 11-Jul-77.
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1977
US NY,New York City,studio,recording "The Closet", "Less Of Me" and "My Eyes'. Mixed by Lydia Lunch and James Chance. Because there was a risk that these tracks would not be released Lydia allegedly stole the recordings and reportedly sold them for $5,000 to ZE who released them in 1979 as the "Pre" EP.
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08-Aug-77
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
Setlist: My Eyes (are empty)/ Don't Talk About/ Popularity Is So Boring/ Burning Rubber/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ No Morality/ Jaded (James Chance on vocals)/ Less Of Me.
Note: 22 mins show. In reality the concert took place on the 9th as it started just after midnight (12:15AM-12:40AM). "Jaded" was later (in May/June 1978) recorded by James Chance's Contortions for the V/A: "No New York" compilation LP (Antilles November 1978).
Flyer/Ad: Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008). Microfilm image from the Village Voice 08-Aug-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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25-Aug-77
US NY,New York City,The Village Gate,New Wave Festival
[with The Fleshtones, Jack Ruby]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice August 1977, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
Note: Jack Ruby was George Scott's (later 8 Eyed Spy) band that lasted until end 1978.
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30-Aug-77
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with The Senders]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 29-Aug-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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06-Sep-77
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with The Senders]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 05-Sep-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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September 1977
James Chance leaves the band. He's much more interested in audience participation than Lydia is. He then forms The Contortions with Adele Bertei (a friend of Bradly Field and also from Cleveland, Ohio) on electric piano and initially a fluid line-up including Steve Moses on drums. The Contortions' first show was at Max's Kansas City on 04-Dec-77.
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Line-up #2 (New York City: September 1977 - November 1977):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ Reck (bass) & Bradly Field (1 drum/1 cymbal)
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13-Sep-77
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with The Squirells and The Senders]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 13-Sep-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig. Review of the show from the Village Voice 19-Sep-77.
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20-Sep-77
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with Killer Kane]
Setlist: My Eyes (are empty)/ Burning Rubber/ Popularity Is So Boring(*)/ No Morality(*)/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Race Mixing/ Orphans.
Note: 20 mins show. Available on the "Live At Max's Kansas City, 1977" CDR (Widowspeak 2006). (*) also available on the "Shut Up And Bleed" CD (Cherry Red/Atavistic 2008).
Ad: Ad from Village Voice 19-Sep-77, taken from "Max's Kansas City", a book by Steven Kasher.
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29-Sep-77
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with Suicide]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 03-Oct-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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15-Nov-77
US NY,New York City,CBGB's
Setlist: My Eyes (are empty)/ Burning Rubber/ Popularity Is So Boring/ No Morality/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Race Mixing/ Orphans.
Note: 22 mins show.
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November 1977
Reck leaves the band. He helps out The Contortions for their first show at Max's Kansas City on 04-Dec-77 (because they did not have a bass player) and then in early 1978 returns to Japan with Chiko Hige (who briefly drummed for The Contortions) to start a new group which became very famous, Friction.
Gordon Stevenson [ex- DNA] replaces him on bass. Gordon was briefly in DNA and married to Mirielle Cervenka (older sister of Exene and also briefly in DNA). Gordon also attended Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida (like Connie Burg and Mark Cunningham of China/Mars). Mirielle Cervenka was for some time the manager of Teenage Jesus. One of her first duties was to get Teenage Jesus over to London. She would die in a car accident in Hollywood (on the 12th of April 1980), on her way to see X (with her sister Exene) play at the Whiskey a Go-Go. Gordon Stevenson died of AIDS not too long after.
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Line-up #3 (New York City: November 1977 - June 1978):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ Gordon Stevenson (bass) & Bradly Field (one snare drum/one cymbal)
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09-Dec-77
UK London,The Roxy
[with The Streets, Defects, Youthenasia]
xx-Dec-77
UK London,-
[with Generation X]
12-Dec-77
UK London,The Vortex
[with Wayne County & The Electric Chairs]
Note 1: On 1 September, 1977 Freddy Laker's "Skytrain" service took to the air for the first time between London Gatwick and New York JFK airport. The fare one-way from New York was just $99. This was an opportunity taken by Lydia to get to UK/Europe to perform with her bands. "Skytrain" came to an end when the airline went spectacularly bankrupt on 5 February 1982.
Note 2: Although the ads taken from the Sounds, 10-Dec-77 do not list Teenage Jesus, the band did perform. The brief nature of their shows (10 minutes) allows them to get on bills unarranged upfront. Throughout 1977 Johnny Thunders and the The Heartbreakers, Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, and The Dead Boys were all performing/touring in the UK.
Note 3: Lydia meets Steven Severin (of Siouxie and the Banshees) at their gig @ the Roundhouse, London on 11-Dec-77. She will meet Steven again on the joint Siouxsie/13.13 US October/November '81 tour and will enlist him in her 13.13 touring band of November/December 1981.
Poster: Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).
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29/31-Dec-77
US NY,New York City,CBGB Theater @ the Anderson Theatre,66 Second Ave.
[with The Patti Smith Group, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Erasers, and Mars]
Flyer: Photo of flyer.
Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 12-Dec-77.
Note: Opening weekend of a second, yet short lived, CBGB on 2nd Ave in the East Village. Teenage Jesus supported Richard Hell and PSG on one of these dates, due to the fact that Jay Dee Daugherty (drummer for the Patti Smith Group) was doing their sound.
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1978
The year in which the "No New York" album tracks are recorded and released. Recording and release of their debut single "Orphans/Less Of Me".
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09-Jan-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with The Contortions]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 09-Jan-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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13-Jan-78
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with The Cramps and Suicide]
Note: Filmed by Michael McClard for his "Alien Portrait" Super-8 short film. Available on the "Video Hysterie" video compilation.
Photo/Ad: Screen capture taken from the "Alien Portrait" Super-8 film. Microfilm image from the Village Voice 16-Jan-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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02-Feb-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with DNA and Mars]
Flyer/Ad: Reproduction taken from DNA's "DNA on DNA" CD (2004). Microfilm image from the Village Voice 06-Feb-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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12-Feb-78
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with Shrapnel]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 13-Feb-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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February 1978
US NY,New York City,studio,recording the "Orphans/Less of Me" 7".
Produced by Robert Quine (The Voidoids).
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23-Apr-78
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with The Student Teachers]
Flyer: Photo of flyer.
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 24-Apr-78 , courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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06-May-78
US NY,New York City,SoHo,Artist's Space,5 day benefit festival (2 sets)
[with The Contortions, DNA, Mars and many many more..]
Setlist 1st show: Crown Of Thorns/ Red Alert/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Red Alert/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Orphans/ Red Alert.
Setlist 2nd show: Roll Your Thunder/ Race Mixing/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Eliminate By Night/ The Closet/ Less Of Me/ Orphans/ Red Alert.
Note 1: Brian Eno (Roxy Music) arrives in New York on 23-Apr-78. Initially he plans to stay for only 3 weeks to master Talking Heads' second album ("More Songs About Buildings and Food"), but he ends up staying for about 7 months. Eno attends this festival (02/06-May-78), likes the music and convinces Island Records to release an anthology album ("No New York"). He reportedly considers ten groups for inclusion on the album: The Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, Theoretical Girls (with Glenn Branca), The Gynecologists (with Rhys Chatham), Tone Death (also with Rhys Chatham), Boris Police Band, Red Transistor and Terminal. The final album features only four bands performing four songs each and is released on Antilles (a sub-label of Island) in November 1978.
Note 2: After the Teenage Jesus & The Jerks concert Jim Sclavunos (then in The Gynecologists) interviews Lydia for his music magazine ("NO Magazine"). This is where Lydia and Jim meet for the first time. Lydia offers him the job as bass player in the Teenage Jesus band in June 1978, replacing Gordon Stevenson.
In the years to come Jim will join many of Lydia's bands: Beirut Slump (1978), Eight Eyed Spy (1979), Devil Dogs (1980), In Limbo (1982) and Shotgun Wedding (1991). In 1994 Jim joins Nick Cave's Bad Seeds. Jim has also been member of Sonic Youth (1982), Panther Burns (1983), Trigger & the Thrill Kings (1983-86), The Cramps (1991-92), Congo Norvell (1990-98), The Gunga Din (1999-2000), The Vanity Set (2000-to date) and Grinderman (2006-to date).
Note 3: "Roll Your Thunder" and "Eliminate By Night" are available on the "Shut Up And Bleed" album (2008).
Flyer: Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).
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16-May-78
US Release of the "Orphans/Less Of Me" 7" on Migraine Records (via Lust/Unlust Music, Charles Ball's label).
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17-May-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with Red Transistor]
Setlist 1st show: My Eyes (are empty)/ Popularity Is So Boring/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Race Mixing/ Orphans/ Red Alert.
Setlist 2nd show: Roll Your Thunder/ Race Mixing/ I Woke Up Dreaming(*)/ Burning Rubber(*)/ Orphans(*)/ Red Alert.
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice May 1978, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
Note: 12 mins + 11 mins show. Also screening of "The Blank Generation", a film by Amos Poe. (*) with someone (James Chance?) guesting on saxophone.
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28-May-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with the B-52's]
Note: Photographer George DuBose mistakenly recollects that Teenage Jesus supported the B52's on their first New York show on December 12th 1977, but then the B52's were supporting (Judy) Nylon and TJ&TJ were in London. George DuBose took the photo used on the cover of Lydia's "Queen Of Siam" album.
Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 29-May-78. Another ad from the Village Voice 29-May-78.
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May/June 1978
US NY,New York City,Big Apple studios,Greene street,recording 4 tracks ("Burning Rubber", "The Closet", "Red Alert" and "I Woke Up Dreaming") for the "No New York" compilation album. Produced by Brian Eno. Production advisor Diego Cortez.
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June 1978
A week after the "No New York" session, Lydia offers Jim Sclavunos, whom she had met at the Artist's Space festival, the job as bass player, replacing Gordon Stevenson. Gordon looked at Teenage Jesus as an art project and was therefor fired by Lydia.
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Line-up #4 (New York City: June 1978 - June 1979):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ Jim Sclavunos (bass) & Bradly Field (one snare drum/one cymbal)
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18-Jun-78
US NY,New York City,Paradise Garage disco
[with The Senders, The Contortions, Richard Hell & Voidoids]
Setlist: Popularity Is So Boring/ My Eyes (are empty)/ Burning Rubber/ Race Mixing/ Freud In A Flop/ Less Of Me/ Red Alert.
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 19-Jun-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
Note: 10 mins show! Opening night of this club. Filmed by Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong (then both working @ Manhattan Cable TV) as part of their weekly Nightclubbing program).
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16-Jul-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 17-Jul-78.
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1978
US NY,New York City,studio,recording their 2nd single "Baby Doll/Freud In A Flop/Race Mixing".
Produced by Robert Quine (The Voidoids).
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30-Jul-78
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with The Ghosts]
Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 31-Jul-78.
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03-Aug-78
CAN ON,Toronto,Horseshoe Tavern
[with The Contortions and The Government]
04-Aug-78
CAN ON,Toronto,Horseshoe Tavern
[with The Contortions and The Government]
xx-Aug-78
CAN QC,Montréal,-
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13-Aug-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with Walter Steding and The Terrorist]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice August 1978, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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20-Sep-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with Blinding Headache]
Setlist: The Closet/ Burning Rubber/ Race Mixing.
Note: 6 mins show!
Flyer: Original flyer.
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 25-Sep-78 , courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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06-Oct-78
US PA,Philadelphia,Artemis
[with Rat at Rat R]
Note: With a screening of some Beth and Scott B.'s films.
Flyer: Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).
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04-Nov-78
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with DNA, Suicide and Walter Steding]
Setlist: instrumental/ Freud In A Flop/ Burning Rubber/ The Closet/ Race Mixing/ Orphans (instrumental version)/ Red Alert.
Note: 9 mins show!
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice 06-Nov-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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November 1978
US Release of the "No New York" compilation album (Antilles)
Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 11-Dec-78.
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27-Nov-78
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with Kongress]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice November 1978, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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late 1978/ early 1979
US, NY,New York City. Brian Tristan [later known as 'Kid Congo Powers' and as member of the Gun Club, Bad Seeds etc..] moves to New York City from Los Angeles with Pleasant Gehman and lives with Bradly Field and Kristian Hoffman (@ 240 Grand Street) for 6 months. That's when he meets Lydia for the first time. Kid would in years to come do several musical projects with Lydia (a.o. their collaboration with German band Die Haut).
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1979
The year in which they record and release of their 2nd single "Baby Doll/Freud In A Flop/Race Mixing". They tour Europe in the spring and break-up in Berlin at the end of the tour.
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17-Jan-79
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with DNA]
Setlist: (1st set) Freud In A Flop/ Burning Rubber/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Crown Of Thorns/ Baby Doll/ Race Mixing/ Red Alert.
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice January 1979, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
Note: 9 mins show!
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28-Feb-79
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
Ad: Taken from Soho Weekly News 1-7 March 1979.
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March 1979
US Release of the "Baby Doll/Freud In A Flop/Race Mixing" 7" on Migraine Records (via Lust/Unlust Music, Charles Ball's label).
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20-Mar-79
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
[with Su-Sin Shocks]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice March 1979, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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06-Apr-79
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with DNA]
Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice March 1979, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.
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17-Apr-79
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City,Max's Easter Festival
[with Martin Rev, Blue Humans and Von Lmo]
Setlist: instrumental/ Baby Doll/ Freud In A Flop/ Race Mixing/ Crown Of Thorns/ Red Alert.
Note: 6 mins show! Plus screening of "The Offenders" (part 1 and 2) a film -then in process- by Scott B. and Beth B. The festival ran from 11-Apr-79 till 21-Apr-79.
Ad/Flyer: Scan of ad from the Village Voice April 1979. Scan of flyer.
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1979
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
Setlist: I Woke Up Dreaming/ instrumental (a.k.a. Dioxide Laughing)/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ instrumental.
Note: Above tracks available on the "Video Hysterie" video compilation.
Photo: Screen capture taken from the "Video Hysterie" DVD.
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15-May-79
US NY,New York City,Max's Kansas City
Note: Plus screening of "The Offenders" (part 5 and 6) a film -then in process- by Scott B. and Beth B.
Ad: Scan of ad from the Village Voice.
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31-May-79
US NY,New York City,Hurrah
[with Youth In Asia]
Setlist: 822/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Freud In A Flop/ Crown Of Thorns/ Orphans/ Baby Doll/ Red Alert.
Setlist: Scan of setlist courtesy of Kim W.
Ad: Scan taken from the Village Voice May 1979 .
Note: Also screening of Scott B. and Beth B.'s "Black Box" film. Their last concert in the USA.
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May 1979
US, NY,New York City. Bradly Field is fired just before the European tour and replaced by Lydia's boyfriend Johnny O'Kane (Johnny came from St.Petersburg,FL). Photo credit Julia Gorton.
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Line-up #5 (Europe: June 1979):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ Jim Sclavunos (bass) and Johnny O'Kane (percussion/drum)
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01-Jun-79
FR Paris,Hippodrome de Paris,Porte de Pantin
No New York Festival (from 18:00h-24:00h)
[with DNA,James Chance,Robin Crutchfeld and Beirut Slump]
Note: One off date. The James White & the Blacks show is stopped by the police, because a riot between audience members had started. Beirut Slump is listed but it's most unlikely they actually performed. Most of the bands' names are misspelled: Beirut Slamp, Robin Crutchsield, The Contorsions.
Poster: Original poster.
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19-Jun-79
NL Nijmegen,O.S. 42,Now New York festival
[with Adele Bertei & the Assasins]
Note: Start of the European tour. Scott & Beth B screen their films ("Black Box", "G-Man" and "Letters To Dad"). As usual only a 10 mins concert. Lydia Lunch performs sitting in a wheelchair. She has just left a Dutch hospital due to a rather serious problem with her innards. Adele Bertei performed solo over taped background music.
Jim Sclavunos' great piece titled "Diary Of A Jerk" appeared in the November issue of New York Rocker and chronicles the band's European tour: part 1 and part 2.
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2x-Jun-79
NL Rotterdam,Café Heavy
Note: Scott & Beth B screen their films ("Black Box", "G-Man" and "Letters To Dad"). Another 10 mins concert. Lydia Lunch performs sitting in a wheelchair.
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2x-Jun-79
Germany/Europe, most likely some more live concerts
Note: Scott & Beth B screen their films ("Black Box", "G-Man" and "Letters To Dad").
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2x-Jun-79
GE Frankfurt,-
Note: Cancelled by the promotor when he got hit by a beer mug thrown by Lydia at the Nijmegen concert on 19-Jun-79.
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30-Jun-79
GE Berlin,S.O.36,New York film festival
Note: Their final concert. Scott & Beth B screen their films ("Black Box", "G-Man" and "Letters To Dad"). Jim Sclavunos wrote a 2 page article ("Diary Of A Jerk") about this tour in the November 1979 issue of New York Rocker.
Photo: Graffiti on the Berlin Wall announcing the TJ&TJ concert. Credit Cathy Dumas, as published in New York Rocker #45, December 1981.
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June/July 1979
UK, London. While Jim and Adele stay for another week in Berlin, Lydia (with Johnny) goes to London where a.o. she is interviewed by Mary Harron, who's article is published in the 28-Jul-79 issue of Melody Maker.
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July 1979
US NY,New York City. When returning from Europe Lydia Lunch finds out she had been evicted from her place. Lydia then moves to a place on East 12th street living with Jim Sclavunos, Annene Kaye [New York Rocker music journalist], James Chance and Chris Nelson [Mofungo/NO magazine] alledgedly doing a lot of acid. Around this time Lydia (having turned 20 on June 2nd) decides that Teenage Jesus was done.
Bradly Field joins James Chance's Contortions (with Patrick Geoffries, Kristian Hoffman, Lester Bowie and Steven Kramer) during August 1979 and leaves late 1979. In 1981 he stars in Edo Bertoglio's "New York Beat/Downtown 81" J.P. Basquiat movie as a studio manager. During the 80's he descended deeper into his alcoholism and heroin addiction and ended up living as a bum in the streets of New York City (Tompkins Square) and almost had to have his arm amputated due to bad drugs. He also worked for some time at the Strand book store at the corner of East 12th Street and Broadway. By 1987/88 he is working and living at the New Theater in the Lower East Side, and helping out Lydia Lunch, who's there rehearsing and performing her theater play written with Emilio Cubeiro "Nightmare, South Of Your Border". By 1990/1991 he's living in a squat with no windows, heat, or electricity on Avenue D. Apparently he went into the hospital one night with what he thought was pneumonia. He died in hospital soon after. A small memorial was held at CBGBs. According to people who knew him he was a crazy funny guy with a wild sarcastic sense of humor.
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1979
US Release of the "Pink" EP on Lust/Unlust.
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1979
US Release of the "Pre" EP on ZE Records.
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June 1980
FR Release of the "Pre" EP on Celluloid/ZE Records.
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2008
The year in which they reunite for 2 dates and in which the definite Teenage Jesus compilation CD is released.
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Reunion Line-up #1 (13 June 2008 and 06-Dec-08):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ Thurston Moore (bass) and Jim Sclavunos (drum)
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13-Jun-08
US NY,New York City,Knitting Factory,Main Space (2 shows: 8PM and 11PM)
[with Information and Byron Coley DJ-set]
Setlist: (1st show) Red Alert/ My Eyes/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Eliminate by Night/ Eliminate by Night/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ Orphans.
Setlist: (2nd show) Red Alert/ My Eyes/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Eliminate by Night/ Eliminate by Night/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ Orphans.
Note: Coincides with the publishing on June 1 of "No Wave: Post Punk, Underground, New York, 1976–1980", a book edited by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore. Information is Rick Brown [Mofungo], Phil Dray [Mofungo], Chris Nelson [Mofungo, NO magazine,etc..].
Flyer: e-Flyer courtesy of EaViL.
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21-Jul-08
UK Release of the "Shut Up And Bleed" compilation CD (Cherry Red).
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02-Sep-08
US Release of the "Shut Up And Bleed" compilation CD (Atavistic).
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06-Dec-08
UK Minehead,Butlins,All Tomorrow's Parties festival (2 shows: 9PM and 11PM)
Nightmare Before Christmas (curated by the Melvins and Mike Patton)
[with Jim G.Thirlwell, The Damned, etc..]
Setlist: (2nd show) Red Alert/ My Eyes/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Eliminate by Night/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ Orphans.
Flyer: e-Flyer.
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2009
The year in which they reunite for the last time. Algis Kizys (who also did "The Willing Victim" project) joins on bass.
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Reunion Line-up #2 (October 2009):
Lydia Lunch (guitar/vocals)/ Algis Kizys (bass) and Jim Sclavunos (drum)
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02-Oct-09
CAN QC,Montréal,Le National,Pop Montréal
[with Duchess Says, Aids Wolf]
Flyer: e-Flyer.
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03-Oct-09
US NY,New York City,Brooklyn,Music Hall of Williamsburg,WFMU Fest
[with Sightings, Drunkdriver, Talk Normal]
Setlist: Red Alert/ My Eyes/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Eliminate by Night/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ Orphans.
Flyer: e-Flyer.
Note: Above tracks broadcast by WFMU radio.
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05-Oct-09
US IL,Chicago,Empty Bottle
[with Daily Void]
Flyer: e-Flyer courtesy of EaViL.
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07-Oct-09
US CA,Los Angeles,El Rey Theater
[with Mika Miko, The Urinals, The Lamps]
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08-Oct-09
US CA,San Francisco,Slim’s
[with Burmese and T.I.T.S]
Flyer: e-Flyer courtesy of Weasel Walter.
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10-Oct-09
US WA,Seattle,Showbox At The Market
[with The A-Frames, Idle Times]
(cancelled)
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Chronology
Beirut Slump (June 1978 - May 1979)
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