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Milkie Way
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Rachel Alexandra Hastings (born 9 December 1997), known professionally as Milkie Way, is a Northern Irish musician from County Antrim. She spent time as a model and a concert photographer, and played bass guitar as a session musician for Barns Courtney after meeting him through her Girl in the Pit photography project. She and Sam Matlock formed Wargasm in August 2019, which took Explicit: The Mixxxtape to No. 19 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2022 and Venom to No. 88 on the UK Albums Chart in 2023.
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Birth name | Rachel Alexandra Hastings |
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Born | (1997-12-09) 9 December 1997 (age 26) County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
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She has also played bass guitar for Yungblud and featured on Trash Boat's 2021 single "Bad Entertainment" and Gunship's 2023 single "Monster in Paradise". Her performance of "Bad Entertainment" at the 2021 Heavy Music Awards shut the ceremony's Twitch stream down, prompting defiant social media posts from the ceremony, Hastings, and Trash Boat's Tobi Duncan.