a temporary autonomous zone: Lambrini Girls in Cologne

Phoebe Lunny directing her beloved mosh pit (Photo: Rainer Holz)

When the Lambrini Girls walk on stage, it feels like someone unplugs the polite circuitry of the room and wires it straight into a shrieking, shimmering truth current. The sets by singer and guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bass player Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez (and the fellow drummer) are urgent, ecstatic, purposefully disobedient. Phoebe thrashes language into a weaponized lullaby, equal parts tenderness and total riot, while Lilly hurls rhythm like a street protest condensed into sound. A Lambrini Girls show is a moving fault line, they build a temporary autonomous zone out of distortion and sweat. Phoebe Lunny is the most perfect mosh pit director of our times!

Photos by Rainer Holz (captured at Kantine, Köln, 7th of December 2025)

Lambrini Girls in 5 quotes 

“What we really want to do is get ourselves into spaces that aren’t designed for people like us.”
(Phoebe Lunny in Rolling Stone UK)

“It’s very hard to write about anything which isn’t inherently politically charged.”
(Phoebe Lunny in Teen Vogue)

“Just let queer people and women make music and stop differentiating it from men making music.”
(Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez — back then Lilly Macieira – in Kerrang!)

“Remember, we are not all free until everyone is free.”
(Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez — back then Lilly Macieira – in New Noise Magazine)

“The industry plant notion is 100% misogynistic.”
(Phoebe Lunny in Hotpress)