Cringetrender is the musical project of Bedlam Rigney (it/its), a nonbinary artist from the western suburbs of Kaurna Yerta. With an eclectic, unapologetic style that’s equal parts raw and heartfelt, Bedlam creates music that challenges conventions while holding space for honesty, healing, and self-expression.

Raised in a musical family, Bedlam learned harmony and songcraft alongside its siblings, writing its first song, Murra. Politics have always been intertwined—rooted in lived experience, community, and resilience. After leaving school at seventeen and navigating homelessness at twenty, Bedlam found chosen family among queer and disabled creatives who helped shape its voice as an artist and advocate.

Bedlam also performs in Lakinyeri—named  after the clan groups of the Ngarrindjeri Nation—with its father Shane and sister Brooke Rigney, strengthening cultural and creative ties through music.

Under the Cringetrender banner, Bedlam has released the EPs dads place and dissociation and distortion, and in 2024 recorded its debut album Take Your Meds through Carclew’s Emerging First Nations Creatives program. Another EP is in production through Space to Create at the ANU School of Music.

The name Cringetrender reclaims the slur “transtrender,” embracing nonbinary identity and the beauty of being “cringe” in a world that demands conformity. Through its art, Bedlam celebrates imperfection, queerness, and survival with fearless vulnerability and a voice that refuses to be quiet.