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Watch: On the Road With UK Rave’s Most Infamous Twin Sisters as They Try to Not Get High

A new VICE documentary follows Polly and Sophie Duniam, aka My Bad Sister, on tour across Europe and partying through lockdown.

By Adam Christopher Smith

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Any wreckhead who raves long enough eventually reaches the point where they’re too old to die young and the choice becomes whether to double down or finally clean up their act.

This is the dilemma facing Polly and Sophie Duniam, the UK rave scene’s most infamous twin sisters, in a chaotic new VICE documentary that captures their struggles to stay sober while playing bassline, gabber, and jungle to mashed deviants at free parties all over Europe.

For the last decade, the identical twins have earned themselves a hedonistic reputation and a black book full of bad influences while singing, rapping, and dancing as My Bad Sister. But as Sophie puts it “there’s only so much your body can take before it just starts rejecting everything, you basically start going downhill.”

Director Joe Magowan filmed the sisters for three years—starting with their very first “straight edge” shows and continuing through the pandemic when they were ostracized by friends and industry connections for their........

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