Truth be told, there’s little that makes a new band more exciting than a bit of chaos - and on that metric, there are few that get the heart racing quite like Lambrini Girls.
Life for Brighton's Lambrini Girls has been pure chaos from the very beginning. Born in lockdown, the band's very first gig took place at a huge celebration of the local scene at Brighton Dome. For vocalist and guitarist Phoebe Lunny, the night did not go entirely as planned.
Now, with support slots with the likes of Frank Carter being followed by being hand-picked by Iggy Pop for his Dog Day Afternoon festival later this summer, that's a question that has to be asked less and less these days.
The Brighton scene has a rich history of producing interesting alternative bands, and Lambrini Girls fit straight into that heritage. Both Phoebe and Lilly played in local cult punk band Wife Swap USA (a group that also included half of buzzy Lime Garden), and after snagging a last-minute invite to headline The Great Escape's opening party last year, things really began to click into place with a set that combined an anarchic sense of punky mayhem with a biting and searing dead-eyed stare at some major issues at play within both the local area and the wider world.
It wasn't all cartwheels and downing bottles of Lambrini (though there remains plenty of that). The brutalising 'Boys In The Band', based on a specific band, takes a fierce aim at a DIY scene that still protects abusers rather than dealing with them. "The worst thing about it is when it gets ignored because it totally perpetuates the issue," explains Phoebe. "And it makes us as much of an issue as the people actually doing it and abusing."
