Lambrini Girls | |
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Origin | Brighton, England |
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Years active | 2019–present |
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Website | lambrinigirlsband |
Lambrini Girls are an English punk rock group. Formed in Brighton, the band currently comprise Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira. After releasing their debut single in 2021 and signing to Big Scary Monsters by November 2022, they released the EP You're Welcome in May 2023 which received positive critical reception from music publications, though subsequently defended themselves after attracting attention from anti-transgender campaigners. Their 2025 debut album, Who Let the Dogs Out, charted at No. 16 on the UK Albums Chart and received positive reception from multiple outlets.
Lambrini Girls were initially formed in Brighton by vocalist Flora Kimberly, guitarist and backing vocalist Phoebe Lunny, bassist and backing vocalist Fox Foxington Fox, and drummer Catt Jack. The band performed its first show in May 2019. [1] By October 2020, Kimberly had left the band and Lunny began handling lead vocal duties. [2] Lilly Macieira joined as a substitute for the band's original bassist. [3] Lunny and Macieira, who met in 2018 while Macieira was working behind a bar in Brighton [4] and once worked at the same bar, [5] had previously been members of Wife Swap USA, [6] use she/they pronouns, [7] and are neurodivergent. [8] Lunny identifies as a lesbian [9] and Macieira identifies as bisexual. [10] By 2021, they had released their debut single, "Homewrecker". [11]
By November 2022, the band had signed to Big Scary Monsters. That month, they released "Help Me I'm Gay", a track written about queer trivialisation. [12] Louder Than War's Jazz Hodge wrote that the song "replicated the messy sounds" of Warmduscher's "Tainted Lunch" and The Strokes "Juicebox" [13] and Emma Wilkes of Rolling Stone wrote in May 2023 that the band would preface performances of the song by asking "gay legends" to put their hand up and that "usually about half the crowd" would do so. [14] In January 2023, [15] the band appeared on that year's NME 100; [16] the month after, they released "White Van", a track about catcalling, [17] and the month after that, they released a video for the track. [16] In April, they released "Lads Lads Lads", a track about lad culture. [18] All three singles appeared on their May 2023 EP You're Welcome, [19] which used a picture of a flaming pile of feces as its cover art [6] and was part-funded by a £6,000 lump sum Macieira had received following the death of her father. [20] By the time of release, Catt Jack had left the band; [9] for the EP's launch at Resident Records in Brighton, The Wytches's Demelza Mather deputised. [21] The vinyl version of the EP included two live tracks. [22] The EP received positive reviews from The Soundboard Reviews, [19] When the Horn Blows, [22] and DIY [23] and charted at No. 29 on the Official Record Store Chart. [24]
In July 2023, the anti-transgender campaigner Graham Linehan retweeted an image of the band performing at Iggy Pop‘s Dog Day Afternoon at Crystal Palace Park, prompting a defiant response from the band. [25] They defended themselves again in September 2023 after a Kerrang! interview was retweeted by another anti-transgender campaigner, Louise Distras. [26] In October, Lunny described Matty Healy as a "a sexist, misogynistic, racist, piece of shit" and accused fans of The 1975 of condoning his behaviour and the band released a video for You're Welcome track "Boys in the Band" and released a limited edition long sleeve t-shirt with profits going to Refuge, Safeline, and Rape Crisis. [27] Pop later recorded a version of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" with the band for a covers album by Trevor Horn. [28] In February 2024, the band released "God's Country", a diatribe against far-right politics, the government of the United Kingdom, the UK politicians Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Dominic Cummings, and David Cameron, and the word "Great" in Great Britain; [29] the track charted at No. 9 on the Official Vinyl Singles Chart. [24] They subsequently dropped out of SXSW [30] and The Great Escape Festival in protest of their sponsors supporting Israel in the Israel-Palestine War. [31] In April 2024, the band released "Body of Mine", a track about gender dysphoria. [32]
In September 2024, they released "Company Culture", a sarcastic track written about toxic workplace environments. [33] The following month, they announced the album Who Let the Dogs Out and released "Big Dick Energy", a track about toxic masculinity [34] accompanied by a lyric video. [35] The month after that, they released "Love", a track about toxic relationships. [36] All three tracks appeared on Who Let the Dogs Out when it was released in January 2025; the album took its name from an inside joke involving the song of that name by Baha Men [37] and received positive reviews from The Guardian, [28] When the Horn Blows, [38] Pitchfork, [39] The Soundboard Reviews, [40] Beats Per Minute, [41] DIY, [42] The Arts Desk, [43] Kerrang!, [44] Clash, [45] Rolling Stone, [46] Dork, [47] NME, [48] AllMusic , [49] Narc, [50] Classic Rock, [51] Louder, [52] The Skinny, [53] and MusicOMH , [54] though negative reviews came from Far Out [55] and Sputnikmusic . [56] Initially forecast to chart at No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart, [57] the album instead made that week's listing at No. 16. [58]
The band were inspired by the likes of Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, and Spice Girls [59] and have expressed admiration for contemporaries such as CLT DRP, Snayx, and Currls, [60] while Lunny was initially a fan of The Runaways and Huggy Bear and draws on Stevie Nicks, Courtney Love, and No Doubt-era Gwen Stefani in her performance style. [61]
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