[POSTPONED: October 2, 2021] Bikini Kill / Alice Bag [rescheduled from November 22, 2020; moved to July 13, 2022]
ON April 28, Bikini Kill announced that they’d be pushing back this tour date one more time.
“We have moved all of our tour dates to 2022 to ensure our fans, our crew, venues’ staff, and the band’s safety,” Bikini Kill said in a statement. “We know many of you have had your shows rescheduled more than once and appreciate your patience and flexibility.”
Then on April 30, I was told
This just in – Alice Bag will no longer be performing at your upcoming event.
So that’s kind of a bummer since Alice Bag is iconic and I’d like to see her. Not sure who is opening now, but I’m sure they’ll be good. Maybe the Linda Lindas?
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I’m not sure if something specific caused this Fall show to be moved to next summer, but it’s just as well since my October was filling up pretty quickly.
I am bummed to see that Alice Bag won’t be opening anymore. I wonder who they’ll get instead.
Boy, a band reunites and plans a national tour and then everything blows up on them. I thought surely this show would go on as planned–a bigger venue, possible social distancing. But how do you enforce social distancing at a rock show? I sure hope we can go to live music again.
When Bikini Kill did their short reunion tour a couple years ago, tickets sold out in like ten seconds. When they announced this follow up tour I grabbed a ticket immediately. As far as I can tell it still hadn’t sold out when it was postponed (which is a surprise, I think).
Bikini Kill are foundation for the Riot Grrl movement although I was not a huge fan of them per se. I have their records appreciate them for what they did, but they weren’t my favorite,
Nevertheless, this opportunity to see them live sounded like a great time.
Alice Bag has been cropping up in my periphery for quite some time although I realized I didn’t know much about her. Alicia Armendariz was a co-founder and singer of the 70s punk band The Bags. After they broke up, she was in about a half dozen other bands, although none of them released more than some singles. She finally put out a solo album in 2016.
Her album(s) since have gotten strong reviews and it would be excellent to see this feminist icon in action.
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