Teenage Jesus & The Jerks

Photo: Credit Bill Lampeter.

Note: Lydia Lunch and her friend Laurie (Lori?).

Note: "I was at the Tubes concert [at the Buffalo State Union Social Hall]. Before the show we actually met Lydia Lunch's older sister in the lobby, not Lydia. At the end of the show 16 year old Lydia came up to us and introduced herself. The sister left without her. Mark picked us up at Century Theater and Lydia came with us. We went back to my apartment on Harvard St. That's where the party happened and she performed her stream of consciousness poetry while dancing on a hexagonal platform in the living room. We had Pegasus band lighting at the apartment and had it on her while she did her impromptu performance. We couldn't believe it!" Recollections by Martin McGee (Facebook).

Note: "Sometime shortly before or after this [Tubes concert], Lydia Lunch performed at one of the clubs on Hertel." Recollections by Dan Rumley (Facebook).

Ad: Scan taken from the Village Voice 08-Mar-76.

Note: A Suicide show attended by Lydia. "There were ten people there, and I just introduced myself [...]. Then they became my friends, and Martin Rev would give me vitamins -I was younger than his son." Lydia Lunch quoted in Nick Soulsby's book "The War Is Never Over" (Jawbone Press, 2020).

Photo: Screen captures from "Punking Out", a documentary film directed by Ric Shore, Maggi Carson and Juliusz Kossakowski, released in 1978.

Note: Lydia's first appearance on film. Documents the punk rock scene @ CBGB's, New York City and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. Presents a look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members. Starring the Dead Boys (Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome), Richard Hell, Hilly Kristal (CBGB's owner), James Chance, Lydia Lunch, The Ramones (Dee Dee, Joey and Johnny) and Helen Wheels. Includes a short interview with Lydia (complete with feathered hair and only 17 years old) which goes like: LL: "I'm here to see the Dead Boys" -"Why?"- LL: "Because they're great fucks!" -"How do you know?"- LL: "Because I fucked them!". The Dead Boys later wrote "I Need Lunch" ("Well I, I don't really wanna dance Girl, I just wanna get in your pants"), which was released on their debut album.

Photo 1: Google street view, 2008.

Photo 2: Down the basement stairs

Note 1: Miriam Linna [The Cramps], Bradly Field and Lydia Lunch move to 83 Warren Street, an abandoned derelict -and reputedly haunted- old cold water basement shop. A 6000-square foot basement, that was $300 a month at the time. Other inhabitants are Phast Phreddie Paterson (visiting from L.A.), Todd Abramson (later owner of Maxwells, NJ) and writer James “The Hound” Marshall (born Giacimao Antonicello).

Next door @ 81 Warren Street live Don Christensen and Jody Harris [later The Contortions], as well as members of Mars, who live upstairs. The second floor serves as a rehearsal space for The Cramps, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and Birdland [Lester Bangs's band]. The sign in the window read: "Cramps home for teenage dirt--eat shit and die".

Note 2: Miriam Linna was the drummer in the first Cramps lineup which played forty-odd dates over an eight month period (from the November 1, 1976 through July 10, 1977, just before the NYC blackout).

28-May-77
US NY,New York City,CBGB
(The Shirts, The Erasers and Public Problem show)

Photo: Credit Allan Tannenbaum.

Note: Lydia Lunch and Bradly Field photographed outside of CBGB at a show by The Shirts. Tannenbaum explained that he took their photograph for an article [in SoHo News]. He recalled: 'They embodied punk fashion'.

Flyer: Flyer from collection of Reck.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 27-Jun-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Note: Their first concert. Auditioning at CBGB. Their second time @ CBGB would only be 3 months later, after they had done several shows at Max's.

Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 11-Jul-77.

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 Teenage Jesus' sound. Which resulted in them sharing the bill with the Patti Smith Group a few times.

Flyer: Flyer reproduction from "No New York Self Help Hand Book", insert with "No New York" LP (Cut Out Records, Japan -1997).

Ad: Scan of advert from the Village Voice 11-Jul-77.

Note: Teenage Jesus is not listed on the VV ad, but may have been added at the last minute. The Romantics are a power pop/new wave band, formed in 1977 in Detroit. Police is either [Boris] Policeband or a local band, but not The (UK) Police.

Note: The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. The blackout that hit New York was a crisis that came amidst a sweltering heatwave, a financial downturn, rising poverty and inequality, and an atmosphere of gloom that had already settled on the city. The 25-hour outage began around 9:30 p.m. on July 13th, after a bolt of lightning struck an electrical substation in Westchester. Not long after, another lightning strike took out two more power lines, and when the Ravenswood 3 power plant in Queens went down, the city fell dark. The blackout occurred when the city was facing a severe financial crisis and its residents were terrified by the Son of Sam murders. Looting and vandalism were widespread in New York City, hitting 31 different neighborhoods.

Photo: Scan front cover Daily News 14-Jul-77.

Article: Village Voice 25-Jul-77.

Setlist: My Eyes (are empty)/ Don't Talk About Love (+)/ Popularity Is So Boring/ Burning Rubber/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ No Morality(+)/ Jaded (James Chance on vocals)/ Less Of Me.

Photo 1: Photos credit © Nicky Lazzoni @ Lower Third Enterprise. Used with very kind permission.

Photo 2: Another photo credit © Nicky Lazzoni @ Lower Third Enterprise. Used with very kind permission.

Flyer: Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).

Ad: Scan of advert from Village Voice 08-Aug-77, courtesy of Joseph Pope @ rockymountainlow.com .

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). Tracks (+) released on the "Live 1977-1979" album (Other People, 2015).

Note: Between July 29, 1976 and July 31, 1977 Berkowitz killed six people and wounded seven others. The killing spree terrorized New Yorkers and spawned the biggest police manhunt in the history of New York City. Berkowitz (age 24) is arrested on August 10, 1977. He is given six 25-years-to-life sentences for the crimes, and for which he would be denied parole ever since.

Photo: Scan front cover The New York Post, 11-Aug-77.

Note: On the evening of August 16 Elvis scheduled to start another US tour. In the afternoon, he was discovered on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion. All attempts to revive him failed, and he was pronounced dead at Baptist Memorial Hospital at 3:30 p.m.

Photo: Scan front cover Daily News 17-Aug-77.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, using a photo by Julia Gorton. Sourced from No Wave Facebook group.

Ad: Scan of advert from the Village Voice 29-Aug-77.

Listing: Photo of listing, courtesy Gary Reese.

Note: One show only, starting at 10PM. Jack Ruby was George Scott's [later 8 Eyed Spy] band that lasted until end 1978.

Photo: Photo credit © Nicky Lazzoni @ Lower Third Enterprise. Used with very kind permission.

Ad: Scan of advert from the Village Voice 29-Aug-77.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, using a photo by Julia Gorton.

Note: "Went to Max's, saw Jerks, rather serious up there -Lydia stares at the audience a lot, she gave a turned up look to Patti Smith, who liked my pony-tail. Lots of groovers there -Johnny Thunders or Johnny Moroni as L.L. likes to call him. Mark from Mars was there -we chatted- he's nice. I'm invited to a party at Lydia's new house Thurs. night. She calls me HUN. She is quite deceiving on stage -looks so serious + mean, still and unaffected - and in real life she's so friendly, so humerous, a mover, unpretictable." from Angela Jaeger's memoir "I Fee Famous" (Hat & Beard press, 2024).

Photo: Photo credit Julia Gorton.

Ad: Scan of advert from the Village Voice 05-Sep-77.

Review: Scan of review of the show by Robert Christgau, from the Village Voice 19-Sep-77. "Teenage Jesus recalls one of those bands that used to hang around the Mercer during the Dolls' time -very 'visual', very 'minimal', very 'arty'. The drummer looks about 40 and affects the demeanor of a Meadowbrook outpatient, banging funereally on the two snares that make up his entire kit, while the lead singer, a stout young woman whose black hair looks like, an extension of her black leatherette pant suit recites lyrics that are pessimistic in mood: 'Across the window/Under the curtain/Break the glass/Feel the pain'. After 15 minutes I figure I get the idea and leave. Rock and roll!"

Photo 1: Credit David Godlis, depicting line-up #4 (June 1978-June 1979):

Photo 2: More photos from David Godlis, from "The War Is Never Over", a documentary film by Beth B.

Photo 3: Google street view, 2007.

Note 1: After Lydia got evicted from the Warren loft (the owners did not like that she was displaying graphic, disturbing paintings in the windows), she and Sumner Crane [from Mars, who died on April 14, 2003 from lymphoma] find another place next to a Chinese movie theater on 18 Delancey street. It is a small two-story building and they have the entire second floor. Its back door opens onto an abandoned Synagogue/Yiddish Theater, 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 had build a little cubbyhole loft inside the place, which was painted entirely black inside.

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 Mary Kathryn Cervenka [a.k.a. Mirielle, and older sister of Exene of LA band X]) and other artists who are part of the 'No Wave' scene all rehearse there.

Note 2: According to Julia Gorton (IG message, January 2025) "You could go out the back into an abandoned Yiddish theater. It was on the north side of the street. West of a subway exit. Second floor, doorway on the left side of the building front." According to David Godlis "I am pretty sure that it was the Delancey corner just east of the Bowery Ballroom. At Chrystie Street I think. The white building 2 doors down [at 14 Delancey] was the Delancey movie theater. [...] I remember entering to Lydia on Chrystie St around the corner." (IG message, January 2025). According to Arto Lindsay [DNA] It was [next to] a kung fu movie theater, and you could hear the movies through the walls". from "This Must Be The Place", a book by Jesse Rifkin.

Note 3: Closeby are The Bowery Ballroom (@ 6 Delancy Street), the New York Dolls 1972 loft (@ 119 Chrystie street) and CBGB (@ 315 Bowery).

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 13-Sep-77, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

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.

Ad: Ad from Village Voice 19-Sep-77, taken from "Max's Kansas City", a book by Steven Kasher.

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). Killer Kane is the band Arthur Kane [New York Dolls] and Blackie 'Lawless' Goozeman [New York Dolls] formed in Los Angeles in 1976.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, design Kristian Hoffman. Sourced from No Wave Facebook group.

Ad: Photo of advert from the Village Voice 03-Oct-77.

Ad: Scan of ad from the Village Voice 14-Nov-77.

Note: Audio tape archived at the The James Brawley Collection, which was received by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, as a gift from Lenny Kaye on October 23, 2009.

Poster: Collection Angela Jaeger. Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).

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 does perform, with the help of Max's booker/Wayne County manager Peter Crowley. The brief nature of their shows (10 minutes) allows them to get on bills unarranged upfront. Throughout 1977 several New York bands (Johnny Thunders and 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 [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 UK touring band of November/December 1981.

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.

Flyer 1: Photo (by FromTheArchives) of flyer, on display at the traveling exhibition "Punk Graphics: Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die", based on Andrew Kristine’s extensive collection of punk memorabilia.

Flyer 2: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 09-Jan-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Photo 1: Credit David Godlis, most likely taken on January 13 (otherwise on February 12 or on April 23, 1978).

Photo 2: Screen capture taken from the "Alien Portrait" Super-8 film.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 16-Jan-78.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: Filmed by Michael McClard for his "Alien Portrait" Super-8 short film. Available on the "Video Hysterie" video compilation.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, taken from No Wave Facebook group.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 06-Feb-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 13-Feb-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Note: Audio tape archived at the The James Brawley Collection, which was received by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, as a gift from Lenny Kaye on October 23, 2009.

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from Philadelphia Inquirer 17-Feb-78.

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Alternative flyer.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 24-Apr-78.

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.

Flyer: Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).

Press release: Scan of press release

Ad: Robert Christgau's choices from The Village Voice 08-May-78. "[Mars and Teenage Jesus] have struck me as arty and empty.."

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 was friends with Nina Canal [The Gynecologists] and attends this festival (03/06-May-78), likes some of the bands and convinces Island Records to release an anthology album ("No New York"). He focusses on those that bands played a lot more often than any of the others who appeared at this festival: The Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars and DNA. The final album features these 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 [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 (2006-2013).

Note 3: "Roll Your Thunder" and "Eliminate By Night" are available on the "Shut Up And Bleed" album (2008).

Note 4: The festival (organised by Michael Zwack, with Robert Longo) was videotaped, on request of the Kitchen Center, by Robert Longo and Nancy Dwyer for a fee of $150 (each). Apparently the tapes were dumped in the trash sometime during the late 80's or early 90's.

16-May-78
US Release of the "Orphans/Less Of Me" 7" on Migraine Records (via Lust/Unlust Music).

Promo sheet #1: Photo of promo sheet.

Promo sheet #2: Photo of promo sheet , design by Julia Gorton.

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: Scan from the Village Voice 15-May-78.

Note: 12 mins + 11 mins show. Also screening of "The Blank Generation", a film by Amos Poe and Ivan Kral. (*) with someone (James Chance?) guesting on saxophone. Tracks (+) released on the "Live 1977-1979" album (Other People, 2015).

Ad 1: Scan of ad from the Village Voice 29-May-78.

Ad 2: Scan of advert from the Village Voice 29-May-78.

Note: Audio tape archived at the The James Brawley Collection, which was received by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, as a gift from Lenny Kaye on October 23, 2009.

xx-May/02-Jun-78
US NY,New York City-Soho,Big Apple Recording studios (@ 112 Greene street),recording 4 tracks ("Burning Rubber", "The Closet", "Red Alert" and "I Woke Up Dreaming", 9 minutes in total) for the "No New York" V/A: compilation album. Produced by Brian Eno. Production advisor Diego Cortez (aka James Allan Curtis).

Photo: Google street view, July 2011.

Note: Mastering finished on 02-Jun-78. Big Apple Recording studio (in the basement @ 112 Greene street) started in 1976 and was renamed "Greene Street Recording" in 1980. Sonic Youth recorded their "Daydream Nation" at this studio in 1988.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note 1: "We went to Rock Bottom's-Lydia was in a bad mood cause of the sound [...] 1st Contortions set James [Chance] threw the microphone into Dan's face -he had to go to the hospital- James was sorry for it -but it was stupid on his part. 2nd set was great, everybody was contorting." from Angela Jaeger's memoir "I Fee Famous" (Hat & Beard press, 2024).

Note 2: In September 1949 the small (100-150 people max) supper-club Bon Soir opened in the basement of 40 West 8th Street. Jimmie Daniels, then an internationally renowned Black cabaret singer and nightclub host, served as its emcee until early 1962. The club was officially owned by Ernie Sgroi Sr. (yet controlled by Mafia boss Vito Genovese). From November 1960 to November 1962 Barbra Streisand would sing at the Bon Soir, as opening act for comedians like Joan Rivers and Phylis Diller. By the start of 1967 Bon Soir as supper-club was over. By 1969 Bon Soir had turned into a dark, shady, Black/Latino gay/bisexual dive, which lasted until at least 1974. In 1976 Ernie Sgroi Sr. would reopen the place as a bona fide gay club, but it was not successful. From March-September 1977 it was Copperfield's Rock Palace. From March-July 1978 it was Rock Bottom. From 1980 to 1984 it was Noga ("A Mediterranean Cabaret in the Village").

Setlist: Popularity Is So Boring/ My Eyes (are empty)/ Burning Rubber/ Race Mixing/ Freud In A Flop/ Less Of Me/ Red Alert.

Poster: Photo (by FromTheArchives) of poster, on display at the traveling exhibition "Punk Graphics: Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die", based on Andrew Kristine’s extensive collection of punk memorabilia.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 19-Jun-78, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Flyer 1: Photo of flyer.

Flyer 2: Photo of flyer.

Note 1: 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). Screenshot from Nightclubbing video.

Note 2: "[...]First, nobody came. There seemed to be maybe 100 or 150 people in attendance. In a space like the Paradise Garage, it looked like the worst prom ever. With the disco ball spinning in the darkened room, the space looked sinister and a little sleazy. And then as The Senders played, the electricity failed. This happened over and over again over the course of the evening. Still, everyone soldiered on. Lydia played a short show. The Contortions roared through a set. James Chance left after his performance with some girl for a date in the cemetery on 2nd Street. Richard Hell, I seem to remember, threw beach balls or something into the audience while he played. It was grim. At the end of the night, James returned to find Hell being told by management that no one was getting paid. Threats and counter threats ensued. James stopped them in their tracks, breaking a beer bottle and cutting himself with the words, “You can’t scare me”. The stunned management paid them." Pat Ivers from Stupefaction blog. "I was there, I remember no one got paid and James Chance cut himself in front of the wiseguy owner in an attempt to get some cash out of him. Bradly Field stole a case of liquor on the way out." by James "The Hound" Marshall.

Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 17-Jul-78.

Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 31-Jul-78.

Setlist: (one of the 2 dates) a.o. Orphans/ Eliminate By Night/ The Closet,...

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from Toronto Star 03-Aug-78.

Note: Above tracks released on the "Live 1977-1979" album (Other People, 2015).

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice August 1978, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Setlist: The Closet/ Burning Rubber/ Race Mixing.

Flyer: Original flyer.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 25-Sep-78.

Note: 6 mins show! Preceded by a screening of Tina L'Hotsky's short movie "Barbie".
According to the Village Voice ad: "Last appearance before UK tour". Did this 2nd tour happen?

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from Pittsburgh Press 01-Oct-78.

Info: Lydia Lunch and James Chance interviewed.

Listing: Scan of listing from The Philadelphia Inquirer 06-Oct-78.

Flyer: Collection Julia Gorton. Reproduction taken from "No Wave", a book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Abrams Image 2008).

Note: With a screening of some Beth and Scott B.'s films.

Setlist: instrumental(+)/ Freud In A Flop(+)/ Burning Rubber(+)/ The Closet(+)/ Race Mixing/ Orphans (instrumental version)/ Red Alert(+).

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 06-Nov-78.

Flyer: Photo of flyer .

Note: 9 mins show! Tracks (+) released on the "Live 1977-1979" album (Other People 2015).

November 1978
US Release of the "No New York" compilation album (Antilles)

Ad: Scan from the Village Voice 11-Dec-78.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice 27-Nov-78.

Setlist 1st show: Freud In A Flop/ Burning Rubber/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Crown Of Thorns(+)(*)/ Baby Doll/ Race Mixing/ Red Alert(*).

Setlist 2nd show: Burning Rubber(*)(-)/ Red Alert(*)(-)/ and more.

Ad 1: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice January 1979, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Ad 2: Advert from the Village Voice January 1979.

Note 1st show: 9 mins show! All but "Red Alert", released on the "Live 1977-1979" album (Other People, 2015). Tracks (*) released on the "Hysterie!", "Everything" and "Shut Up And Bleed" compilation albums.

Note 2nd show: Tracks (*) released on the "Hysterie!", "Everything" and "Shut Up And Bleed" compilation albums. Tracks (-) released on the "PINK" EP (1979).

05-Feb-79
US Release of the "Baby Doll/Freud In A Flop/Race Mixing" 7" on Migraine Records (via Lust/Unlust Music).

Flyer: Photo of flyer, design Kristian Hoffman, photo Julia Gorton. Sourced from No Wave Facebook group.

Ad: Scan of advert from Village Voice.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, design Kristian Hoffman, photo Julia Gorton. Sourced from No Wave Facebook group.

Ad: Original advert, taken from Soho Weekly News 1-7 March 1979.

Ad: Microfilm image of advert from the Village Voice March 1979, courtesy of Jonathan Luftig.

Ad: Scan of ad from the Village Voice March 1979.

Setlist: instrumental/ Baby Doll/ Freud In A Flop/ Race Mixing/ Crown Of Thorns/ Red Alert.

Photo: Credit © Tom Warren . Used with kind permission. Two more of Tom's photos .

Ad: Scan of advert from the Village Voice April 1979. Scan of another advert.

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

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 April 11 till April 21, 1979. All tracks released on the "Live 1977-1979" album (Other People,2015).

Ad: Scan of ad from the Village Voice.

Note: Plus screening of "The Offenders" (part 5 and 6) a film -then in process- by Scott B. and Beth B.

Setlist: I Woke Up Dreaming/ instrumental (a.k.a. Dioxide Laughing)/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ instrumental.

Photo: Screen capture taken from the "Video Hysterie" DVD, on which the above tracks are available.

Note: Filmed either on 28-Feb-79, 20-Mar-79 or 15-May-79. Videographer likely was Babeth Van Loo for Target Video.

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 of advert 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.

Poster: Original poster.

Ad: Scan of advert.

Note: One-off date. The Contortions show is stopped by the police, because a riot between audience members had started. James Chance fires his band after the show and stays with Anya Phillips in Paris until August. Teenage Jesus and Beirut Slump are listed but it's most unlikely they actually performed. Most of the bands' names are misspelled: Beirut Slamp, Robin Crutchsield, The Contorsions.

Poster: Photo of poster, sourced from ARCHIV B, used with kind permission.

Note 1: The NY film festival ran from 12th till 23rd of June 1979. Screening films by John Ahearn, Charley Ahearn, Karin Luner, James Nares, Eric Mitchel, Diego Cortez, John Lurie, Vivienne Dick, Rainer Fetting and more. Scott & Beth B screen "Black Box" on the 14th, "The Offenders" on the 15th and "G-Man" on the 16th.

Note 2: Teenage Jesus and the Jerks's shows rescheduled till 30-Jun-79.

Photo: Credit Roy Tee.

Listing: Scan of listing from De Waarheid newspaper 13-Jun-79.

Setlist: 822/ Crown Of Thorns/ Race Mixing/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Orphans/ Baby Doll/ Red Alert.

Photo 1: Credit Dieter Krist (from Vomit Visions).

Ticket: Sourced from Wasted Vinyl Collection.

Photo 2: Photo of setlist, sourced from Wasted Vinyl Collection.

Review: Review by Volker Hanreich (aka Hans Wurst, from Vomit Visions) in Same Old Song fanzine Nr.25, (Germany, August 1979). Translated in English.

Note 1: 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. Adele Bertei [The Contortions] performs solo over taped background music.

Jim Sclavunos' great piece titled "Diary Of A Jerk" appeared in the November 1979 issue (#24) of New York Rocker and chronicles the band's European tour: part 1 and part 2.

Note 2: "The audience at O.S. 42, a Communist cafe, was very serious/sheepish.[...] Then ...Feedback. Breaking glass. Barfing noises. Pig squeals. Screaming. Teenage Jesus was performing its opening number. Threats were exchanged. Lydia threw a beer mug at a photographer and it shattered against his camera. [...] I would like to point out that Lydia was absolutely ravishing for this performance (as well as all performances). After nary ten minutes of our usual glorious pageantry, we returned to our exlusive upstairs dressing room [...]" Jim Sclavunos from above NYR article.

Note 3: Lydia Lunch had to be hospitalised due to a rather serious problem with her innards. This whole European tour she's in a wheelchair. Lydia:"I was really sick and I was in my wheelchair at that point. That was the wheelchair tour. I was feeling old before my time, it's a good thing I'm so young now." FE: "Did you play guitar from the wheelchair?" Lydia:"No, I'd rise for the occasion. I thought I could stand for ten minutes. I was in dire pain in though. I was on the verge of death". Lydia Lunch interviewed by Byron Coley for Forced Exposure #10, July 1986.

Poster: Scan of generic poster of the era.

Note: Scott & Beth B screen their films ("Black Box", "G-Man" and "Letters To Dad"). Another 10 mins concert. "The 'Heavy' in Rotterdam, was a small black box of a club, probably the smallest club in the world. I felt honored to be there. It was claustrophobically dense with the usual noisy, dirty Dutch crowd. After the show, the manager didn't want to pay us because she found the music distasteful." Jim Sclavunos in New York Rocker November 1979.

Note: Scott & Beth B screen their films ("Black Box", "G-Man" and "Letters To Dad").

Poster: Photo of poster, sourced from ARCHIV B, used with kind permission.

Photo: Graffiti on the Berlin Wall announcing the TJ&TJ concert. Credit Cathy Dumas, as published in New York Rocker #45, December 1981.

Note: Their final concert at the "Last night in S.O.36". "Our last performance (ever!) coincided with the closing of S.O. 36. [...] In honor of this solemn event, special acts were appended to the bill that night -like a llama that they couldn't coax onto the stage (so it just stood in the middle of the audience, whining and shitting) [...] I, for one, was quite drunk. When we mounted the stage to sentimentally execute this final assault, little did we suspect, as we discreetly brushed tears from our eyes, that it would be the worst Teenage Jesus performance ever seen. It was. So much for our legendary farewell." Jim Sclavunos in New York Rocker November 1979.

Article: Scan of article from Algemeen Dagblad 16-Jul-79.

Note: Jim and Adele return to Holland. "Laughably enough, Nina Hagen asked me to audition for her band. I was in Amsterdam [...] I got thrown down a flight of Dutch stairs by a long-haired Dutch policeman at a punk party the cops were raiding [see article]. [...] Well, I didn't pass the audition. I found Nina and her junkie boyfriend unutterably gross, and longed for the slimy boulevards of Manhattan. So I took a slow boat to England, passed out in the ship disco on Mandra and stout, woke up on Carnaby Street, bought a pair of leather bellbottoms, booked a flight on a TWA Clipper jet to New York [...] And suddenly, I was back." Jim Sclavunos in New York Rocker November 1979.

1979
US Release of the "Pink" EP on Lust/Unlust.

1979
US Release of the "Pre" EP on ZE Records.

June 1980
FR Release of the "Pre" EP on Celluloid/ZE Records.

Setlist: (1st show) Red Alert/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Eliminate by Night/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Baby Doll/ Orphans.

Setlist: (2nd show) Red Alert/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ 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.

Photo: Photo of setlist .

21-Jul-08
UK Release of the "Shut Up And Bleed" compilation CD (Cherry Red).

02-Sep-08
US Release of the "Shut Up And Bleed" compilation CD (Atavistic).

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.

Note: Some footage available on "FROM ATP - Numéro 5" a documentary film (2008) by Vincent Moon.

Photo: Credit by Michael Johnson of Nemesis To Go webzine.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Note: First Big Sexy Noise gig.
Labeled as "That was then - This is now- Deal with it!". Double feature: first set Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, second set (with the same line-up) Big Sexy Noise.

Note: Labeled as "That was then - This is now- Deal with it!".
Double feature: first set Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, second set (with the same line-up) Big Sexy Noise.

Photo: Copyright © Pietro Previti .

Note: Labeled as "That was then - This is now- Deal with it!".
Double feature: first set Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, second set (with the same line-up) Big Sexy Noise.

Photo: Copyright © Francesco L. . Used with kind permission.

Note: Labeled as "That was then - This is now- Deal with it!".
Double feature: first set Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, second set (with the same line-up) Big Sexy Noise.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Note: Labeled as "That was then - This is now- Deal with it!".
Double feature: first set Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, second set (with the same line-up) Big Sexy Noise.

Photo: Credit Biphop .

Note: Labeled as "That was then - This is now- Deal with it!".
Double feature: first set Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, second set (with the same line-up) Big Sexy Noise.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

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.

Flyer: e-Flyer courtesy of EaViL.

Note: Weasel at the time was drumming with Burmese. As of 2012 he's working on several of Lydia's projects (Retrovirus, Teenage Jesus, Sick with desire,..)

Flyer: e-Flyer courtesy of Weasel Walter.

Setlist: Red Alert/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Orphans.

Note: "Deux villes, deux scènes : New York - No Wave, 1976 / Chicago - Post Rock, 1990". Preceded by a screening of "Blank City" a film by Céline Danhier and "Parallax Sounds" a film by Augusto Contento.
This version of Teenage Jesus sounds fresh and bloody good! 20 mins show.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Setlist: Red Alert/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Orphans.

Photo: Screen capture from a video by Federico Escalante.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Note: Closing date of Nicolas Jaar's label's, Other People, residency @ Trans-Pecos.

Setlist: Red Alert/ The Closet/ Freud in Flop/ Less Of Me/ Burning Rubber/ Race Mixing/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Crown of Thorns/ Baby Doll/ Orphans.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Note: Celebrating The Knockout's 20th anniversary. Lydia had just 2 rehearsals with Paul Costuros [Burmese] and Jay Korber [Burmese].

Setlist: Red Alert/ Less Of Me/ The Closet/ Crown of Thorns/ Burning Rubber/ Freud in Flop/ I Woke Up Dreaming/ Race Mixing/ Orphans.

Photo: Screen capture from private video.

Flyer: e-Flyer.

Note: Celebrating The Knockout's 20th anniversary.

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