Ecca Vandal ‘Looking For People to Unfollow’ Album Tour

<p style="text-align: center;">For Ecca Vandal, punk was a way in &ndash; and a way out.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Born to a Sri Lankan family in South Africa, she moved to Australia at a young age, and faced pressure to assimilate. <em>&ldquo;There were just so many restrictions and limitations growing up in such a strict cultural and religious upbringing,&rdquo;&nbsp;</em>says Ecca. <em>&nbsp;&ldquo;When I discovered punk rock, it was so much about expressing yourself against those boundaries, against those things that actually suffocate you. I realized that actually my journey is what I had to talk about. I don&#39;t want to see Women voiceless.&rdquo;</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">Ecca came to punk from jazz training and music school orthodoxy, from weighty first-gen parental expectations, and other places far from the Melbourne home studio where Ecca first screamed her feelings into a microphone. <em>&ldquo;What I was taught as a child is the exact opposite of like, &quot;Fuck it, I exist and I make noise and I&#39;m loud and I&#39;m going to take up space.&rdquo; &nbsp;</em>Seeing Ecca&rsquo;s kinetic energy live, the way she owns the entire frame in videos and as she sings &ldquo;CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE&rdquo; &ndash; it&rsquo;s hard to imagine there was ever a time where she was tentative about any of it. The singer/songwriter remembers <em>&ldquo;Just being so scared to make noise and say something. I wanted to exist as raw, unapologetic and br