# EDINBURGH PUNK BANDS

Looking to book some pals for a gig but canny think of who? Want to find someone new & local to listen to? Want to let folks ken about your hot shit new band? You're in the right place! Run by MISS MASTERSTROKE and VEE RIOT, this directory is here, queer, and in operation for all your gay little needs.

This page is a list of the queer and women punk bands in Edinburgh, inspired by girlandqueerbands.neocities.org.
Special emphasis here is placed on Riot Grrrl and Queer Punk bands!

## LAST UPDATED: <date>25/03/2022</date>!

This site is to be kept clear of:
- Shit cishet man bands
- Nazi punks
- Capitalist recuperation garbage🤮🤮🤮🤮
- Transphobes (as if they'd ever learn to play an instrument lolll)

If we somehow accidentally host an artist like that let us ken and we'll remove em.
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List of punk bands in Edinburgh
Name | Description | Style | Contact | Links | Active/Inactive
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Auntie Vicious | The new outfit from Sophie (Little Love), Nora (Little Love, PAL), & Lynnette (Llennett, Storm in a D Cup). Disco Grunge. A Queer powered up explosion of angst to make you dance | Charming & Emotional Punk, brilliant to dance to. Sophie tears up the dance floor and gives a wonderful hug. An absolute blast. | auntievicious [at] gmail.com | Facebook | Active
Bee Asha | Bee Asha Singh is a Scottish spoken word artist and rapper Her work is a cathartic outlet that she uses to explore themes of relationships, sexuality and trauma, characterised by an openness to talk about her lived experiences | Highly personal Feminist Rap & Poetry. | beeashasingh [at] gmail.com | Facebook,Website,Soundcloud | Active
Blue Tiger | Melancholic pop tunes for the people. | Sweet and sad, chilled out vibes. I like to draw along with their music. | bluest.tiger [at] gmail.com | Website, Facebook, Soundcloud |

Bratakus

Bratakus are a 2 piece Vegan, Riot Grrrl Punk band from the North of Scotland. They are sisters Onnagh Cuinn (Bass/Vocals), Breagha Cuinn (Guitar/Vocals) and a drum machine. They have been described as making 'distortion-driven break-neck riot grrrl sounds'.

Riot Grrl, Vegan, Punk with screamy vocals, like an angry and powerful metalhead baby

breagha [at] hotmail.com

Facebook, Merch, Youtube, Bandcamp

Active

Coma Cat | Coma Cat has awakened to bring you pure catnip. The bassless trio from Edinburgh plays rabid shed rock - a genre-bending type of minimal punk garage conceived for the felines of tomorrow. Or let's just call it music. | DIY Punk as hell, Coma Cat are bouncy and fun... Book them for a headliner! | comacatsheds [at] gmail.com | Facebook, Bandcamp, Instagram | Active
Curdle | Give us your phone number! Trippy riot pop from Wiggy, Lucy, Clare and Hoggers. Glasgow based female four piece. |  | curdleband [at] gmail.com | Facebook, Merch |
Fingering at the Disco | Edinburgh based, queer, feminist, punk band born out of "Girls Rock School". Inspired by riot grrrl punk, radical politics, and a little bit of early 2000s pop classics. | CLASSIC Riot Grrrl shit. Snarly and brilliant. GIRLBOSS GIRLBOSS. | Contact em on Facebook! | Facebook, Instagram |

Fistymuffs

Girls Rock School graduates, Fistymuffs are a political punk, Riot Grrrl band from Edinburgh. Their second EP, We Fight, sees the band tackle diet culture, fight gentrification and survive depression before asking you to join them in bringing down the capitalist society we find ourselves in. Expect relatable lyrics, solidarity, and a lot of dancing.

Riot Grrl, Punk, postpunk vibes, with lots of cool guitar pedals and repeated vocals. Brilliant fun with great stage banter. Also check out Suky's gigs!

fistymuffsband [at] gmail.com

Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter, Instagram Youtube

Active

Fit to Work

Fit to Work are a ‘quasi-autonomous, non-governmental punk act’ from Scotland. Award-winning poet and performer Harry Josephine Giles joins members of Cradle of Filth, The Phantom Band and a guy from an office, to blast a scathing invective over a frantic backdrop of hardcore punk, with elements of thrash and grindcore.

Screamo vocals with super loud, angry drumming. fucking CUTTING lyrics. Fit to work are brilliant... Also check out Josie's poetry.

fittoworkband [at] gmail.com

Link Tree, Website, Twitter, Youtube, Bandcamp + Merch

Active

Gay Panic Defence

Kirkcaldy-based purveyors of DIY queercore powerviolence [...] have been ripping up Plague Island for the better part of half a decade now. From the chaos of Hardcore Brunch at BYAF to Leftfest to touring the UK to leave it all in smithereens, Gay Panic Defence are a savage proposition of the stereo but a whole different animal live.

Somewhere between hardcore, oi and metal. Gay panic defence have some chaotic sounds for an intense queer mosh pit.

Contact em on Facebook!

Bandcamp, Facebook,

Active

Goth GF | "Glasgow doom punk bullshit" | Sweet & sad punk stuff. Lovely Feels music. | gothgfband [at] gmail.com | Soundcloud, Facebook | Active
Hailey Beavis | Norfolk born Hailey Beavis is a song writer and artist living in Edinburgh. |  | okpalrecords [at] gmail.com haileybeavis [at] gmail.com |  |
Honey Farm | All-female scottish rap group. Bouncy, fun, and extremely horny. | Peppy rap stuff, kind of straight, their stage banter is brill. | honeyfarm.official [at] gmail.com | Bandcamp, Facebook |
Iona Z | Street songstress based in Leith, Edinburgh. | Street musician, country, blues, has a really incredible, deep voice. Pretty good pals with the page admin. You'll find her playing outside lidl most weeks, and it'll be the highlight of your day. | izawinski [at] gmail.com | Facebook |
Lana Wild | "Lana Wild is a noisy trans girl from Edinburgh, Scotland armed with stories about the craziest year of her life. Sometimes solo, sometimes with the boys." | Hot as all hell |  | Linktree, Instagram, Tick Tock, Facebook, Bandcamp. |
Lisa the Beauty Queen | Mysterious. | Hard to describe? Kind of noisy? Dubsteppy? It's like if sound was queer and could kick you in the kidney. |  | Facebook, Bandcamp |
lonely carp | A multi-instrumentalist and conceptual recording artist based in Edinburgh, lonely carp blends extended instrumental and vocal technique with both industrial and orchestral soundscapes, attempting to crystallise the complexity of a lived trans experience. |  | lonelycarp [at] hotmail.com | Website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram | Active

Lou Mclean

Lou Mclean is a singer-songwriter who specialises in sweet melodies with razor-sharp lyrical content. Lou's music has drawn praise from The Skinny & The List magazines. She was featured in the BBC Scotland Documentary 'Riot Grrl Rock' in Nov 2019, as well as The Janice Forsyth Show. " a gem of the Scottish underground scene".

Poetic lyrics and understated acoustic guitar. Name a venue in Edinburgh and Lou's played there (and sold a lot of CDs.)

lou.mclean.music [at] gmail.com

Facebook, LinkTree, Bandcamp

Active

Molly Wyrd | Sad folk punk. |  | mollywyrd [at] gmail.com | Facebook, Soundcloud |
Pictureskew | walking is the only thing / that comes to me more naturally / than shutting myself up inside / in spite of all that I believe | Mournful solo folk punk, acoustic and sleepy with a bitter humour. Queer. | Contact them on Twitter. | Soundcloud, Twitter |
Rebecca Radical | Positivity spiked anarcho punk played by a buckfast drinking hippy cunt |  |  | Facebook, Bandcamp |
Sasquatch Junior | Post-rock and math-rock inspired minimalist instrumental guitar. [...] Also been described as 'instrumental emo-sounding magic noodles' | Sweet as hell folky stuff. Listen to their new EP.. it'll make u smile. | Contact them on Bandcamp! | Bandcamp Facebook |
Sha Rivari | Sha Riviari is the 21st century one-man band. She plays guitar and stomps on things. |  | Contact her via Bandcamp! | Bandcamp, Instagram |
Suffrajitsu | Suffrajitsu exercise their own brand of punky feminist musical anarchy. This Edinburgh band is made up of graduates from the Girls Rock School initiative. | Girls rock school graduates & teachers, riot grrl, queer! MARCH OF THE WOMEN!!! | Contact them on Facebook! | Facebook | Active
The Farting Sufragettes | Feminist punk. Fake teeth. Jizz monkeys. | Horny as all hell, dancy-punk. Super freaking NSFW so if you book them do be prepared for that. | fartingsuffragettes [at] gmail.com | Facebook, Instagram |
The Harpies | A feminist, eclectic band with a punk heart based in Edinburgh, formed by a group of immigrants from different parts of the Spanish State: Valencia, Barcelona, León, Ourense and Murcia. We are all graduates from Edinburgh Girl Rock School. | Incredible feminist spanish punk. GREAT fun to dance to. | theharpiesedinburgh [at] gmail.com | Facebook | Active

Twistettes

Jo and Nicky Darc make up The Twistettes with their dirty, twisted bass sound, a hit of swinging flare and thumping driving drums. They are punk, riot grrl, real-deal indie with a touch of psychobilly. They have performed at various venues from the legendary Glasgow Barrowlands to secret underground parties.

It's not drum & bass (the genre) but it is drum & bass (the instrument.) Jo and Nicky are kind of local celebs. Bass-heavy sounds and compelling vocals that rule to dance with.

thetwistettes [at] live.com

Bandcamp, Facebook

Active

Vee Ruins | Vee Ruins is a folk punk singer songwriter based in Edinburgh who writes riot grrrl songs about anarcha-feminism. Occasional kazoo & banjo player, part of The Sturdy Fragiles folk punk band and Girls Rock School fanatic. | Lovely acoustic folk punk solo act. Biting sarcasm and burning sincerity! |  | Facebook, Soundcloud | Active

## Legend

Band name: The name of the artist
Description:A rough description of the artist (usually how they describe themselves.)
Style: Genre is fake, so this is how they FEEL... Also sometimes it's the page author's opinions of them.
Contact: How to reach out to the artist, in case you want to book them for a gig. Links: Where to find the artist online. Active/inactive: Is the artist currently doing gigs? Also notes go here.

## Submit an artist!

Want to submit your fave band? Here's the form!

We're especially looking for:
- Queer bands (obviously.)
- Riot Grrrl and Girls Rock School bands!
- BIPOC and minority bands (they dinny get promo'd enough!)

If you have any questions or requests, email us at: [email here lol]

## Venues

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