So Real it Hurts - Lydia Lunch & Tex Perkins

Lydia Lunch’s fearless spoken word meets Tex Perkins’ immersive electronic storm for an unforgettable night.

New York – No Wave Queen, LYDIA LUNCH – returns to Australia to team up with Beasts of Bourbon and The Cruel Sea frontman TEX PERKINS for a very special show.

Lydia will perform her confrontational and shockingly real spoken word while Tex will perform an exclusive electronic soundscape-based set with laptop, guitar and voice.

Lydia Lunch first burst on the scene in New York in the late 70s. Initially arriving as a spoken word artist, she quickly added music to her talents to become (as Time Out magazine recently voted) one of the most influential performers to have emerged from New York City. She was an intrinsic character in New York’s CBGBs music scene which spawned acts like Blondie, Patti Smith, The Ramones, Talking Heads and more. In the early 80s she became aware of Australian band The Birthday Party which lead to a number of collaborations with Melbourne rock royalty, Nick Cave & Rowland S. Howard.

Through music, books, spoken word performances, film, video, photography, poetry and a multitude of creative endeavours, Lydia Lunch has proven to be one of the most daring artists of the current era. She is a heroine among young women especially from marginalised backgrounds. She gives comfort to them and her story of persistence and survival is revered by many.

Tex Perkins, better known as the singer of The Cruel Sea and The Beasts (of Bourbon) among a plethora of other projects, brings us “Basic”.

Ranging from sprawling soundscapes to dark electronic noise, rock to ambient dream scapes, “Basic” is Tex with a laptop, and/or a phone,a guitar an ebo and a voice, and it is unlike anything Perkins has done before.

This is cyberpunk karaoke with soaring ambient soundscapes.