Despite Delighting in All Manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse, I need hardly tell you that Glastonbury is a mystery to me. But to follow We are Lady Parts, I learn of Voice of Baceprot (VoB). An Indonesian all-female metal trio from rural Garut, West Java, they sing in English, Sundanese, and Indonesian (website; wiki; useful survey).

Making headlines since 2017, their 2018 single School revolution (lyrics) was remixed on EP in 2022. From VoB’s YouTube channel, their 2023 album Retas (Guardian interview) includes tracks like What’s the Holy (Nobel) today?, God, allow me (please) to play music, and [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY. Here’s the playlist:

Warming up for Glastonbury (where they are understandably concerned about the weather and the food…), VoB played in London at Downstairs at the Dome—but it was sold out, so I wasn’t distracted from Euro 24—indeed, I would have felt like a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake, in Raymond Chandler‘s fine simile.

This makes quite a change from Éva Gauthier‘s genteel promotion of gamelan. Note also my roundups on punk (including Croatia, Spain, Iran, Beijing, and the GDR), gender, and West/Central Asia—Like I’d Know…