Coachella Drop: Lambrini Girls

Lambrini Girls were supposed to play Coachella this month, then vanished from the set times and confirmed the reason themselves: singer and guitarist Phoebe Lunny says she fractured her neck and suffered an acute brain injury in Australia. Doctors told her not to fly or perform for six weeks, so the band pulled out of the festival and moved its American dates. (brooklynvegan.com) The band said the injury was initially misdiagnosed, which meant treatment started later than it should have. Lunny posted that explanation in the band’s statement, and multiple music outlets repeated the same timeline after the lineup change became public on April 8 and April 9. (loudwire.com) This was not just one festival slot disappearing. Lambrini Girls also rescheduled their whole American headline run, because a trans-Pacific flight and a full run of shows were off the table under the same six-week medical order. (consequence.net) Coachella 2026 opens over two weekends, April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Lambrini Girls had been on the festival’s announced 2026 lineup before the last-minute withdrawal. (coachellavalley.com) The gap showed up fast in fan-facing festival material. By April 7 and April 8, outlets tracking the official schedule noticed Lambrini Girls were no longer listed in the set times, which is usually the first public sign that a festival change has already been locked in behind the scenes. (grimygoods.com) Lambrini Girls are a Brighton punk duo built around Phoebe Lunny and bassist Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez, and their rise has come through loud, confrontational live shows as much as recorded music. That makes a neck fracture and brain injury especially disruptive, because this is a band whose schedule depends on constant touring and high-energy performances. (nme.com) Their Coachella booking mattered because it would have put a fast-rising United Kingdom punk act in front of one of the biggest festival crowds in the United States right before its own American club dates. Instead, the band’s April plans now hinge on recovery first and replacement dates later. (brooklynvegan.com) As of April 9, the story is simple and brutal: one overseas injury in Australia knocked out a California festival appearance and an entire U.S. tour leg in the same stroke. The band has not framed this as a minor setback, and the six-week no-fly, no-performance order gives a concrete reason why everything had to move at once. (kerrang.com)