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Slumber Baby 2:280:00/2:28
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In My Bed 3:470:00/3:47
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Dreaming Big 4:370:00/4:37
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Best Song Ever 2:240:00/2:24
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0:00/3:21
“Don't let anyone ever tell you that you're crazy” - Wilford 'Motherloving' Warfstache
Cringetrender
Eclectic and honest with a pop twist
Cringetrender, otherwise known as Bedlam Rigney (pronouns: it/its) hails from the Western suburbs of Kaurna Yerta.
QUICK FACTS
- SA Music Awards Finalist (Best Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Artist)
- Emerging First Nations Creatives Program Participant (Carclew)
- Space to Create Participant (ANU)
Big sound, bigger personality, biggest freak.
Who the fuck is Cringetrender?
Your guess is as good as mine and I AM Cringetrender.
Cringe (cringeworthy) Trender (transtrender)
That’s how it started.
Actually, let me back up.
Bedlam RIgney, 15yo
That kid is me. Lost in the throes of mental illness and about to write Attention Seeking.
Just a lil trans guy trying to figure it out.
Bedlam Rigney, 19yo
Less boy, still trans, always mentally ill. Using alcohol, benzos and self harm as coping strategies. Has already written Queen, is about to be homeless where it will write HAPPY.
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So, what happened?
I was in and out of semi-abusive relationships through my teens to mid twenties. Learned radical self acceptance in spite of them. In and out of a lot of things, actually. Psych wards and sex work. A very healthy combination, I'm sure you can imagine. But through it all, the childhood dream kept haunting me. The childhood dream of stardom. Of being a performing musician. The itch got too much. I lost my most consistent adult job and said fuck everything, I have to give it a shot. Applied to a new program through Carclew, the Emerging First Nations Creatives program. A vague, potshot idea for three albums, and jokes on them because they let me do the program, funded the first album and it changed my life forever.
The rest is history. Recent history, but you get the point.
Music
26/5/26: Current site tracks are The Dream EP, no official streaming release but available on Bandcamp.