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Dream Wife: Punk rockers making the political playful

By France24
11 November 2023   |   11:30 am
Jennifer Ben Brahim meets the London-based trio Dream Wife ahead of their concert at Paris's Pitchfork music festival. They started as a university performance project, similar to "This is Spinal Tap". Three albums later, they're a fully-fledged rock band with a musical manifesto: dismantling the patriarchy and railing against inequality.

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