Maltese Brighton-based ĠENN supporting anti-Putin band Pussy Riot

A right riot is on the horizon for ĠENN whose Brighton sojourn will propel the Maltese post-punk band to support Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot for the UK leg of their tour.

Janelle Borg, Leona Farrugia, Leanne Zammit and drummer Sofia Rosa Cooper got the news last week they will be supporting the anti-Putin punk band, whose music platform has been used to vociferously defend LGBTIQ+ and womens’ rights.

Since moving to the UK some four years ago, ĠENN have released debut LP ‘Titty Monster’ and EP ‘Liminal’, and only recently released single Rohmeresse.

Paying homage to both their small-island roots but in full swing of what they call a “crazy” life, Ġenn’s supporting act for the notorious Pussy Riot is the highlight of the band’s career so far.  

The tour is set to take place around the UK this coming November.

Pussy Riot earned global notoriety when two of their members were arrested and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for singing their son ‘Punk Prayer’ inside Moscow’ s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Balaclava-wearing, anti-Putin, feminist, guerrilla punk rockers Pussy Riot was founded in 2011, earning global notoriety when two of their members were arrested and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for singing their son ‘Punk Prayer’ inside Moscow’ s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, admonishing the Russian head of state’s close relations with the Russian Orthodox Church. 

Most recently the band has come back into the limelight after band member Maria Alyokhina escaped Russia earlier this year in April to evade arrest, by dressing as a food courier and being escorted by a friend to the Belarusian border.

In an interview with The Guardian, she said: “I was arrested, many times – and not just arrests. I was under a travel ban, I had a red flag on the border for two years, I had to find a way to tour. The heads of the political Moscow police were quite often trying to go to my house, speak with my mother, catch me there.”