Even before things really took off for the Brighton-based Lambrini Girls, their original lead singer, Flora Kimberley, had already left the band. Instead of rallying other lesbian musicians around her, Flora continued in Bath with a male backing band—and a French band name. The broadsides she belts out in a gritty voice, aimed at conformist office drones and peers eager to settle down, are far more punk in spirit. And the motto of their German tour—"The Bratwurst Beklagen Tour"—reveals a fondness for continental oddities on the part of Bureau de Change. Before that, Mad Kitten from Strasbourg follow in the footsteps of the Riot Grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill.

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