Bikini Body
Bikini Body are your favourite DJ’s favourite punk band. They’ve released two records with Optimo Music, whose support helped shape their current trajectory and a sound that’s dancier…
Bikini Body are your favourite DJ’s favourite punk band. They’ve released two records with Optimo Music, whose support helped shape their current trajectory and a sound that’s dancier than punk and punkier than dance.
Drawing on ESG, Liquid Liquid, Warmduscher and Squid, their sound pairs percussive grooves with a confrontational vocal style rooted in The Slits, Bush Tetras and X-Ray Spex.
Recent activity includes a 13-date UK co-headline tour with a sold-out London show, a packed-out headline set at The Windmill Brixton, and festival appearances at Manchester Psych Fest, Hidden Door and Watching Trees. Airplay has followed across BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio 1, KEXP and NTS. The band also made their European debut this year at festivals in Barcelona and Rotterdam.
Bikini Body have just completed 10 new tracks at PRAH Studios in Margate and will be releasing a new single, Leipzig, on the 18th of September. Inspired by a sighting of a cargo flight over a favourite Edinburgh pub garden, frontwoman Vicky Kavanagh decided to examine her fear of flying, technological advancement and climate change. In typical Bikini Body style, even contemplating the end of the world turns into a party and the result is 100% dance punk goodness. Ben Katzman (Mannequin Pussy, Guerilla Toss, Colleen Green) joins for a face-melting guitar solo that’s bound to get folk buzzing for their upcoming joint UK tour.