The Sixsters, an all-girl punk rock band made up of Ukrainian teenagers, described their performance at Glastonbury as “super incredible.”
On Friday morning, the five-piece punk rock group, which consisted of young girls between the ages of 13 and 18, performed on Glastonbury’s Woodsies stage.
Drummer Kateryna told the PA news agency after the band’s performance: “It was simply amazing. The crowd was wonderful. The stage was wonderful.
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“Every person who works there is just doing everything that they can to help the artists’ performance. Super, super incredible.” She said Glastonbury was a “really, super big festival, one of the biggest, and it means a lot for us, it’s just amazing emotions.”
The band started out in 2018 in a tiny Ukrainian town near Kyiv when the girls were as young as seven years old. It has since released two albums in Ukrainian and one in English.
Kateryna described the band’s music as “energetic”, adding: “You can dance to it and just have fun, but also we’ve got a bunch of sad songs that are more serious.”
With help from the New York-based nonprofit Kids Rock for Kids, which gives tweens and teens the opportunity to perform on stage while earning money for charity, the band began touring Ukraine in 2019.
The girls left Ukraine in February 2022 after Russia invaded it, moving to Essen, Germany, where they are still based today.
Gary Fortune, a board member for Kids Rock for Kids and the band’s coach, said of the group’s “music beyond their years” in a statement to the PA news agency.
Playing at Glastonbury will be the “start of a lot more attention” for the band, he said, adding, “We’re just looking for opportunities for them to help them along the way.”
Fortune said he first reached out to Glastonbury to attempt to book a slot for The Sixsters with only around eight weeks to go before the festival began and secured a slot on the Woodsies stage.
