Spike Fuck

Spike Fuck is an artist and musician from Melbourne, Australia.[1]

Overview

Spike Fuck grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She used heroin and other drugs for several years and was subsequently dependent on methadone for three years.[2] She began performing under the Spike Fuck name in 2015.[1]

Her work draws on her experiences as a recovering heroin addict and trans woman[1], as well as her faith as a Catholic.[2] She describes her music as "smackwave", drawing on the slang term for heroin and referring to a style influenced by new wave and post-punk, as well as country music.[3][1] She has cited Roky Erickson and Scott Walker as influences.[4]

In 2019 she signed to Partisan Records.[5] As of 2019, she was preparing to move to London and working on her debut album.[3]

Work

Spike Fuck's debut EP, The Smackwave EP, was released in 2016.[3] The EP was re-released in 2019.[3] She has described it as an impersonation of a washed-up middle aged rock star attempting a comeback in the 1960s or 1970s.[2]

In 2019 she released the single "Body by Crystal", which draws on experiences of a mental breakdown, and which she described as being characterised by an "over-produced pop-punk sound, like End of the Century-era Ramones".[3] In the music video she visits the Abbey of Thelema, the "anti-monastery" founded by Aleister Crowley and Leah Hirsig in Sicily in 1920.[3][5]

gollark: Maybe we should have an orbital laser soundtrack.
gollark: If you try and reflash them, you'll just get orbitally lased while in orbit or something.
gollark: No.
gollark: Technically not all of the orbital lasers may have *originally* been mine, but they run osmarks.tk firmware now and it's not like someone can go up there and reflash them.
gollark: Well, have osmarks.tk orbital laser network, will orbitally lase.

References
  1. Allwood, Emma Hope (16 November 2016). "Meet Spike Fuck, Rick Owens' new favourite musician". Dazed. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  2. Beech, Issy (24 October 2016). "Meet Spike Fuck: Cult Heroine". Vice. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  3. Bayly, Zac (9 July 2019). "Spike Fuck: Burnt out on love". The Face. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  4. Wallace, Megan (19 November 2019). "Spike Fuck – Beyond the clickbait, the hard drugs and the karaoke". Loud and Quiet. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  5. Olinger, Mike (9 July 2019). "Spike Fuck explores addiction and infatuation with unflinching honesty on 'Body By Crystal'". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
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