LENE LOVICH – THE GODMOTHER OF PUNK

The Stiff Records rebel who helped rewrite the rules of British music

From the anarchic brilliance of Stiff Records to the birth of New Wave, post-punk and alternative pop, Lene Lovich remains one of the most extraordinary, influential and gloriously uncompromising artists ever to emerge from Britain's musical underground. Now, accompanied by her full band, she comes to Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre for one very special night.

There are artists who become famous. There are artists who have hits. And then there are those rare, extraordinary individuals who change the way popular music looks, sounds and thinks.

Lene Lovich belongs firmly in that last category.

Long before the music industry had invented convenient labels for every strange new sound, before the gothic movement had properly found its feet, before alternative pop became a marketable commodity, there was Lene Lovich. Wild-eyed, raven-haired, dressed…