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.