Everyone is fucking with The Femcels

This article is partly taken from the Summer 2026 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here.

Despite what their name suggests and their self-deprecating lyrics (“You are listening to The Femcels / We don’t have sex ever”) – everyone is fucking with The Femcels. The London-based duo consisting of Gabriella Turton and Rowan Miles are blasting their electro-twee-punk into the city’s electronic underground, and people are turning it up – regardless of what their iPhone haptics warn them.

The pair started making music in 2024, accompanied by Bassvictim’s Ike Clateman to produce The Femcels’ debut album I Have to Get Hotter released earlier this year. By the time it dropped, they’d already shared lineups with fakemink, EsDeeKid and Frost Children. Their debut record fixates on the idiosyncrasies of life experienced as internet-natives – track titles like “You’re Gay And You’re In Love With Me” and “I’m So Fat” speak for themselves.

Below, in between a summer of touring and frolicking, Dazed checked in with the duo.

What are The Femcels up to right now? 

Rowan: We signed a £1.2 million record deal.

What’s the best hangout spot in your hometowns? 

Rowan: I used to love getting blackout drunk in Pavilion Gardens and The Level [in Brighton]. 

Gabriella: The petrol station.

What are your summer plans? 

Rowan: Tour America and write songs, I reckon. 

Gabriella: Fighting Zara Larsson.

How’s touring? What’s on your rider? 

Rowan: I feel really muscly. We ask for beers and a local delicacy. I think the beers helped the muscles. 

Gabriella: Snow globe hummus.

What’s your relationship like with your fans? 

Rowan: Sexual.

Gabriella: I’m their jester.

Do you spend much time online? 

Rowan: Yeah, way too much. 

Gabriella: Look above.

What are you doing when you’re not making music? 

Rowan: Everything you imagine.

Gabriella: I stand still until someone gives me a trumpet.

If you could soundtrack a runway show, what brand would you choose?

Rowan: Probably Prada or Miu Miu. Jeremy Scott or Betsy Johnson. The big four. 

Gabriella: Anna Sui.

What music did you grow up listening to? 

Rowan: The Beatles, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Lily Allen, all the greats.

Gabriella: The Rihanna song on my toothbrush.

What’s the first song or album you fell in love with? 

Rowan: ‘19–2000’ by The Gorillaz.

Gabriella: The Rihanna song on my toothbrush 

What’s the best advice you’ve been given? 

Rowan: ‘I don’t know if you should make music, just write a poetry book or something’. 

Gabriella: You should be a banker.

What three things are in The Femcels starter pack? 

Rowan: Square eyes, knee socks, shit makeup.

Gabriella: A bindle, ginger shot, sandals.

What’s something about the music industry you didn’t believe until you experienced it? 

Rowan: Every A&R is a boy who went to a famous private school. 

Gabriella: The coffee in Capitol [Records] makes you gurn.

What do you think people in music overvalue right now? 

Rowan: Inoffensiveness. 

Gabriella: Being a Berlin DJ.

Is there anything that people misunderstand about you as an artist?

Rowan: I think for the first time in my life I feel properly understood. 

Gabriella: People are polarised on if we’re ironic. I think I was as a person but the music is very serious. 

Dream collab? 

Rowan: Ringo Starr. 

Gabriella: Dolly Parton.