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Riot girrl pioneers Bratmobile will reunite this summer time for his or her first efficiency in additional than 20 years.
Bratmobile will headline the 2023 Mosswood Meltdown pageant in Oakland on July 2, with a lineup that options authentic vocalist Allison Wolfe and drummer Molly Neuman, alongside Rose Melberg on guitar, Audrey Marrs on keys, and Marty Key on bass. In an announcement, Wolfe and Neuman famous that authentic Bratmobile guitarist Erin Smith can be unable to hitch this time attributable to “different commitments,” although the pair added, “we’re hoping we’ll have the ability to play collectively along with her once more within the close to future.”
Mosswood Meltdown 2023 will happen July 1 and a pair of, with filmmaker John Waters serving as host. The lineup options Gravy Practice!!!!, ESG, J.J. Fad, and Le Tigre, who’re additionally reuniting for his or her first reveals in 18 years this summer time.
For Bratmobile, the Mosswood present will mark their first public efficiency since a Sept. 9, 2002 gig in New York Metropolis. As Wolfe and Neuman famous, the band did get collectively in 2019 for a particular birthday efficiency for Bikini Kill’s Tobi Vail, which sparked dialogue a couple of potential reunion.
“After the present, we talked about enjoying once more, however it wasn’t the fitting time, after which… 2020,” the pair mentioned. “Now we’re each dwelling in Los Angeles, and when the chance to play this particular present in one among our hometowns got here up, we determined to go for it.”
Bratmobile emerged out of the identical early-Nineties Olympia, Washington scene that fostered the likes of Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Beat Occurring, and different riot grrrl/indie rock favorites. The band launched their debut album, Pottymouth, in 1993, and adopted that up in 1994 with The Actual Janelle EP. A second album, Girls, Girls and Ladies, wouldn’t comply with till 2000; Bratmobile’s third and ultimate file (to date, not less than), Ladies Get Busy, dropped in 2002.