Voice of Baceprot reviewed!
Woodsies, 11.30am
How best to open a festival? Some winsome, gently cooed folk ballads, to ease hungover punters into the day? That’s one option, but the schedulers at Woodsies have instead opted for a bracing blast of thrash metal to blow away the cobwebs. The first Indonesian band to ever play at Glastonbury, Voice of Baceprot are a female power trio whose cheerful onstage disposition masks an impressively beefed up brand of old-school metal. Dressed head to toe in black, including hijabs, it’s immediately clear they mean business from the very first chugging drop D riff they launch into.
Their sound owes much to the big four of 80s thrash, but there’s a hint of System of a Down in their off kilter melodies and a dash of Primus in Widi Rahmawati’s frenetic slap bass riffs. She’s given plenty of room to show off her chops, as is drummer Euis Siti Aisyah, whose extended mid-set solo gets the biggest cheer of the day. But perhaps most impressive of all is vocalist Firda Marsya Kurnia, who is equally at ease delivering a lacerating growl or a clean, soaring pop-metal melody. There’s a lovely moment where, right after concluding one of their many bruising breakdowns, the band pause to wish Rahmawati happy birthday and Kurnia gets a little teary at the sight of hundreds of Glasto punters joining in. “This is the best gig ever” she yelps, and in the moment it’s hard to disagree.
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