The British group opened the 34th edition of the Eurockéennes de Belfort on Thursday, with feminist and political punk, which echoes the British and French elections.
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They opened the 34th edition of the Eurockéennes festival in Belfort on Thursday, July 4. The Lambrini Girls, new voices of committed British punk, set the stage alight as the United Kingdom voted on Thursday, July 4 to choose its new representatives to Parliament. Their voice also echoes what is currently happening in France.
Originally from Brighton, on the south coast of England, the Lambrini Girls are touring Europe this summer, to scream their feminist and political punk. Their concerts are great lessons in fury. In Belfort, they found France again, a country that speaks to them a lot: they admire the culture of protest there. “France is a great example. You are doing so much better than us in the UK, says Phoebe, singer and guitarist of the Lambrini Girls. When you are angry, you set fires and take to the streets to express your anger loudly.”
This year, they also released a single, entitled “God’s Country”, to denounce the extreme right that they feel is rising among them: “Great Britain, are you sure?” (“Great Britain, are you sure?”) sings Phoebe, for example, on the chorus of the song.
Despite this fierce activism, and as their country voted on Thursday July 4 to elect its representatives to the House of Commons, they sometimes feel an overwhelming responsibility, as Lili explains, on bass: “Music is a great form of activism. We want to use our exposure to do good and to be a voice for others. But sometimes we have to remember that we’re just two people in a band. We do what we can.”
Despite the language barrier, it was indeed an outlet that the Lambrini Girls offered to the Eurockéennes.
