Lambrini Girls Tickets

With radical hope, potty-mouth wit and a live show that’ll put the fear of punk into any detractors, Lambrini Girls are giving everyone a hell of a party as they try to tear down the old world. 

You must have been introduced to Lambrini Girls by now. For those emerging from a coma or culture detox, Phoebe Lunny is a made-for-this performer and benevolent rebel rouser who’s found her calling: helping queer kids and pot-bellied dads (and everyone in between) let it all out in a safe, loud, exhilarating space. Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez is the rock to Lunny’s roll – holding it down on stage with teeth-rotting bass fuzz as Lunny spends most of her time on the other side of the barrier, stripping any hierarchy from their shows. They’ve been joined by touring drummer Misha Phillips, a trans woman, since 2023.

Lunny and Macieira-Boşgelmez formed their band after the dissolution of Wife Swap USA (which they played in with members of fellow Brightonians Lime Garden) and released their debut EP, You’re Welcome, in 2023. With its flaming pile of poop cover art and slapstick yet serious admonishments of TERFs and men who abuse their positions within the DIY punk scene, the EP established Lambrini’s hard-to-do-right blend of activism and silliness. 

“Humour’s a great tool for disarming people. If you just scream in their faces, they switch off. But if you make them laugh first, they’re more open to hearing what you’ve got to say,” Lunny told Brighton’s Discover magazine. Who Let the Dogs Out was an unserious placeholder title they slapped on their debut album early in the writing process. But when it comes to punk, the off-the-cuff ideas tend to be the right ones: a first take in the studio, a spontaneous stage dive. The genre isn’t perfect because it isn’t meant to be – forever a work in haphazard progress. 

Take riot grrrl, the obvious touchpoint for Lambrini Girls’ sound. While the duo has spent time with the revolutionary work of Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Brighton’s own Huggy Bear, they also critique the movement’s lack of intersectionality and gatekeeper attitudes that resulted in the exclusion of trans people. So they updated its formula – hollered vocals + under-attack power chords + furious take-downs of white supremacy and systemic misogynism – for the modern world. For an era epitomised by a second Trump term, by billionaires building village-sized bunkers while championing welfare cuts for the masses. 

Who Let the Dogs Out is thus a perfectly incongruent – or congruent – title for a release that spills over with all the anger, confusion, chaos, and love brought about by an increasingly absurd world. Given it was released a week before Trump’s inauguration, it was also the perfect balm for the dark days of January 2025. The record thrashes against police brutality and toxic workplace culture, then pivots to personal admissions around neurodivergency, queer identity, and concludes with the love-yourself anthem ‘C*ntology 101’. Amid all the top-down terror, you’ve got to back yourself, learn to live with yourself, it urged. 

Since then, Lambrini Girls have had a whirlwind, bigger-than-Jesus year: two screams around the US. A collab with artist David Shrigley. They won the LOUD WOMEN Hercury Award(Opens in new tab) (a send-up of the Mercury Prize). Who Let the Dogs Out was listed as one of Rough Trade’s albums of the year. And just try to find a festival bill that doesn’t bear their name! It’s comforting that after all this, they still request their namesake bottom-shelf booze on their rider. Maybe it’s nothing; maybe it epitomizes a commitment to where they came from. Even as Lambrini Girls’ reach has ballooned and the plaudits stack up, they haven’t watered down their messaging even a little bit.