Cassyette: Meet the punk powerhouse!!!

The first time Cassyette ever played a festival, she headlined Download. Last summer, she joined Frank Carter during his closing set at the pilot event to perform their collab, ‘Off With His Head’. She was introduced by Carter as a “real fucking rockstar”, and lived up to the promise by commanding the stage and marking out her place as a scene leader for a new generation of rock fans.

“It definitely got all the heebie jeebies out,” the London vocalist says today over Zoom from her flat in Wembley. “So when it came to my own set the next day, I knew I had it.” Since then, that confidence has continued to grow, with the alt-rock musician supporting Willow at her one-off London show at Electric Ballroom in December, touring with Carter across the UK and Ireland, and playing her own headline gigs, including a sold-out night at Camden’s Underworld in February.

Later this month, she’ll appear at Brighton’s The Great Escape and support childhood heroes My Chemical Romance at their Milton Keynes stadium comeback show. She cried for two hours when the latter was confirmed; the New Jersey rockers were one of the first bands she adored. “The bigger the crowd, the bigger the rush,” she says of the upcoming gig, which will see her play to over 30,000 people. “The nerves just turn to excitement. My live shows are always really rowdy, there’s always a lot of pits going on. The set I’ve got planned is pretty heavy – I think people will let loose.”