Scene Queen turns London hot pink with fierce performance

This week, in celebration of her recently released EP Bimbocore, Scene Queen held audience at London’s O2 Academy Islington cementing her reign of the scene with a fiery and inclusive show, assquakes included.

Winner of Best International Breakthrough Artist at this year’s Heavy Music Awards, Scene Queen has set her sights on ruling the music world and bringing down the patriarchy at the same time, and boy are we here for it.

With stellar support from Delilah Bon and In Her Own Words, there has never been a Monday gig that felt more like a Friday night party than this one. The stage set up to resemble a sorority pool party, all pink everything, Scene Queen delivered a set that not only calls out toxic masculinity in the alternative scene but also provided the safest space for everyone at any gig we have ever experienced. The singer even inducted three audience members into her sorority as official gig ambassadors for anyone who feels like they didn’t have friends at the show.

Scathing single 18+ went down a storm with possibly the loudest singalong of the evening and a room full of alt kids that let out their frustrations with their beloved scene and the problematic acts it seems to harbor. But don’t despair, the scene is far from lost. It is probably one of the very few sub genres that openly calls out and cancels artists and band members for abusive behaviour, past and present. It doesn’t not exist in other genres, those genres just haven’t yet created a space as open and accepting as the alternative circle where coming forward doesn’t always mean getting bullied into admitting you lied. And if 18+ makes you feel uncomfortable, then it should.

More pink power was fired round after round with tracks like Pink G-String and MILF. One of Scene Queen’s most viral track Barbie & Ken (released before the movie), was originally recorded with Set It Off’s Cody and performed on the night with Joey Fleming of support act In Her Own Words, got the crowd in a frenzy.

As Pink Rover echoes through the room, the bodies come flying over the barrier like the airforce at a royal salute. And with a “pre-planned” encore of Scene Queen’s hit single Pink Panther the queen herself was seen crowd surfing and hugging her people at the barriers.

Scene Queen came to shake up the alternative scene and she has been officially elected as the ambassador of inclusiveness by her fans. She didn’t come to be quiet, she’s here to make a lot of people uncomfortable and we cannot wait to see more of it. Keep slaying, queen!