Bang Bang Romeo’s Anastasia “Stars “Walker puts her foot down over self-love, body positivity and sexuality — we don’t advise crossing her…

Words Thomas Stichbury

Every once in a while, a voice emerges from the wilderness, packing more welly than a pile-driving power top. Step forward Anastasia “Stars” Walker, the lead singer of pop-rock group Bang Bang Romeo, with a Richter-Scale-shaking vocal range that doesn’t so much raise the roof as completely rip it off. However, Stars isn’t content with just smashing the shit out of a big note. As an out-and-proud queer woman, embracing all her swerves and curves, she is also on demolition duty to bulldoze stereotypes around sexuality and body image. We pity any fool who tries to stand in her way.

Raised in a mining town in South Yorkshire, Stars didn’t have anyone to look up to as a kid and struggled to come to terms with being gay.

Now 26 and engaged to her childhood sweetheart Charlotte (“To this day, I still have the hottest girl in school”), she has wedged her rainbow flag into the ground to become the LGBTQ role model she never had.

On the ascent, Bang Bang Romeo — the line-up is completed by guitarist Ross Cameron, 30, and 26-year-old drummer Rich Gartland – performed at Attitude’s 25th anniversary party at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office earlier this year, and have just supported superstar P!nk on her sold-out European tour.

While cooped up on a bus trundling along to a gig in Southampton, Stars spoke to Attitude about everything from the band’s debut album A Heartbreaker’s Guide to the Galaxy to her slightly concerning obsession with Megan Fox, and, erm, punching animals in the throat.