Lavender Scared

Lavender Scared is a queer-punk band formed in Berkeley, CA in 2016, now in Chicago, IL. The group is comprised of married couple Neil Lawrence (on vocals) and Bella King (on guitar, bass and vocals), as well as a rotating cast of rhythm section players. Their first release was the mask4mask EP, after which they cut their teeth playing shows across the West Coast and in the Bay Area’s storied DIY community. During this time, absolutely nobody in the band went to jail for vandalism. In 2019 Lavender Scared released their first full length LP, It Gets Bitter, a loose concept album about the perilous transition between being a drunk gay teenager and a drunk gay adult. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic pushed the band to entirely self-produce and home-record their new music, as well as indulge a long-standing love of folk-punk and country. The result is their new record Hunger No More, a four-song EP recorded in Berkeley and mixed in Chicago, where the band relocated to. Lawrence and King are both transgender, and at one point or another have both been labeled enemies of the state by multiple politicians, including both the current sitting president and the next up.