The three girls started making metal music at high school, but they never thought they could make history for Indonesia at Glastonbury. The band they formed - Voice of Baceprot - are playing the festival this year and when they found out they'd been invited they were “confused”. “Because we didn’t know how exciting [the festival] is.
.. We didn’t know what to do next,” the band’s lead singer Firdda Marsya Kurnia said.
The pressure was on after the trio realised they would be the first Indonesian band to play at Europe's largest music festival. Headliners at this year’s five-day festival include Coldplay and Dua Lipa. Voice of Baceprot - made up of Marsya, drummer Euis Siti Aisyah and bassist Widi Rahmawati - are performing on Friday.
Baceprot (pronounced “bah-che-prot”) means “noise” in Sundanese, one of the most widely spoken languages in Indonesia. The three women have come a long way since their village school 10 years ago. They have made international headlines for challenging gender and religious norms, and have toured internationally, including in Europe and the US.
They have also been praised by the likes of Rage Against the Machine, whose guitarist Tom Morello said he watched one of their videos “10 times in a row and was just blown away by it”. Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers once tweeted, “I am so down with Voice of Baceprot.” But Glastonbury will be their biggest stage yet.
Marsya, Siti, both 24, and Widi, 23, sat down with the BBC a.
