„Infinity Punk“: A Career-Spanning Interview With Suicide’s Alan Vega by Simon Reynolds

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Best known as the confrontational frontman of Suicide, Alan Vega was also a talented visual artist. January 2002 saw the first exhibition of his light sculptures in almost 20 years, in New York’s SoHo district. At that time, I interviewed Vega about the exhibition for The Village Voice but, as I was also researching my post punk history Rip It Up and Start Again, I seized the opportunity to ask questions about the entire span of his career as a singer and musician. A condensed version of this conversation later featured in the book Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews.

“We were talking about society’s suicide, especially American society. New York City was collapsing. The Vietnam War was going on. The name Suicide said it all to us.”
Alan Vega

Simon Reynolds: The neighborhood we’re in right now, SoHo, was Suicide’s homebase back in the early ’70s. Today it’s nothing but clothes boutiques and galleries, but back in the day…

Alan Vega: Nothing but rats and roaches! You know how it goes: The artists move in and make it so people notice it’s a nice area, the rents go up, and the artists have to move out again. We moved to SoHo in 1971, when it was all factories and cheap clothing stores. Very dangerous at night: You took your life in your hands walking outside, it was pretty deserted….
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