I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: September 26, 2025] Lambrini Girls / Edging

As seems to happen a lot, I heard about Lambrini Girls and how their shows were amazing.  And then I saw that they were playing Underground Arts.

Their bio says “Imagine your nan is in the boot of your car with a croissant in her mouth and hears bikini kill for the first time. That could be you. It will never be us as we are not bikini kill and we are not your nan. We are Lambrini Girls. Bon appetite xoxox.”  The band currently consists of Phoebe Lunny and Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez (bass).  Lunny has a kind of shouting/speaking style (not all that unusual) and her accent remains very strong (also not very unusual among British bands).

Their name comes from Lambrini, a brand pear-based alcohol “aimed at the undiscriminating female drinker.”  And they have a song called Cuntology 1010, which is pretty funny while also being very pointed.   They seem like they would be a ton of fun live.

But my daughter an I had left for All Things Go earlier in the day, so I couldn’t go to this one.  I hope they come back next year.

I hadn’t heard of Edging, who describe themselves as “landscaper punks from Chicago” because their three founding members connected through landscaping jobs.  They play noisy punk and singer Faith Callaway has a great raw singing style.  But what makes them stand out is that their punk is accompanied by a saxophone (like X-Ray Spex).  Or, as I saw: “70s-style punk splattered with technicolor saxophone.” They seem like they’re a lot of fun.

This would have been a great show.