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Spike Fuck (born 1991 or 1992) is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Australia.

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. She began performing under the Spike Fuck name, and came out as transgender, in 2015.

Her work draws on her experiences as a recovering heroin addict and as a trans woman. 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. She has cited Roky Erickson and Scott Walker as influences.

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

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

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". In the music video she visits the Abbey of Thelema, the "anti-monastery" founded by Aleister Crowley and Leah Hirsig in Sicily in 1920.