Lydia Lunch and Joseph Keckler are coming to Australia
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30.10.2023

Lydia Lunch and Joseph Keckler are coming to Australia

Lydia Lunch
Words by Staff Writer

Tales of Lust & Madness, a new show from Lydia Lunch and Joseph Keckler, is coming to Australia.

Combining the dynamic spoken word of Lunch and the dark humour and unnerving musicality of Keckler, Tales of Lust & Madness brings two of New York’s most notorious performers together to create an intimate evening of provocative musical poetry.

Passionate, confrontational and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy and their pornographic war mongering, turning the sexual into political or whispering a love song to the broken hearted, Lydia Lunch’s fierce energy and rapid-fire delivery lend testament to her warrior nature.

Lydia Lunch and Joseph Keckler

  • Fri March 14 – Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Vic
  • Sun March 17 – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, Vic (Including Screening Of Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over With Lydia Lunch Q&A
  • Fri March 22 – The Great Club, Sydney, NSW
  • Sat March 23 – Mona, Nolan Gallery, Hobart, Tas

Keep up with the latest music news, features, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

Queen of No Wave, muse of The Cinema of Transgression, Lydia Lunch has released too many musical projects to tally, has been on tour for decades, has published dozens of articles, half a dozen books and simply refuses to just shut up. She performs in a variety of mediums and continues to release new music as well as re-issuing classic material from her vast catalogue of written and musical works.

A rabid collaborator, Lunch has famously worked with the likes of Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard, Henry Rollins, Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten among others. Her decades long career is the subject of a new feature length documentary Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over.

Performing in Australia for the first time, Joseph Keckler is a singular artist who performs in a genre of his own design that fuses operatic vocals and contemporary subject matter into absurd and affecting underworld voyages.

Keckler made his off-Broadway debut in Preludes in 2015, portraying the opera singer and longtime friend to Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, and his first collection of writing, Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published by Turtle Point Press in 2018. In 2019 he premiered two works, Train With No Midnight at NYC’s Prototype Festival and Let Me Die with Opera Philadelphia, as well as toured the USA as the national support act for rock band Sleater-Kinney.

Get tickets to the Recital Centre show here.