Fierce Creatures:

"They're supposed to be the fairer sex, but that doesn't make them the weaker one. Claire Coakley tracks down 10 women who are definitely deadlier than the male.

"If you can eat fire, if you can walk on glass and hammer nails into your face, then what can anyone else do to you?"

Lucy attacks her crotch again. She is ramming a power drill *angle grinder actually* equipped with a 4.5 inch metal disc right into her groin. Flame coloured sparks fly around the woman with doll-like looks and a torturer's temperament as she revels in her inimitable metalwork. It's called angle grinding, and Lucy (who uses the stage name "Lucifire" for reasons that suddenly seem pretty obvious), shows us the scars on her inner thigh that provide a permanent reminder of the times she lost the plot and missed the small steel plate that protects her groin.

Though a friend has asked her to get "a big metal butt made so I can grind her ass" Lucy won't, because "it's quite dangerous grinding other people, especially if you get carried away. You have to trust someone a lot to let them do that to you."
One time a drugged up punter got on stage and grabbed at Lucy's power tool. "I just launched myself at him, kicking and tried to pull it back, and all the time there was this high speed rotating metal disc between us. It could have sliced through the cable and given us 240 volts straight.

"It's not like, "Oh, I really want to hurt myself"," she adds. "I'm saying, "I'm so fucking hard, I can do this to myself and enjoy it"." To prove her point, right there in the middle of our conversation she hammers a two-inch *it was four inches actually* nail up her right nostril, then explains how dangerously close the nail comes to her brain.

"I think a lot of people are scared because they're worried about how bad the pain will be. But once you confront it, once you find out what pain feels like, it's not so scary any more."

CLAIRE COAKLEY FOR BIZARRE MAGAZINE. ISSUE 2.