[POSTPONED: July 13, 2022] Bikini Kill / Brontez Purnell [rescheduled from November 22, 2020 and October 2, 2021; moved to April 7, 2023]
About a week before this show was supposed to happen we got another update that the show was postponed yet again.
I like to note that I bought ticket to this show on November 10, 2019.
The reunited riot grrrl stars were originally set to play a host of North American shows across June and July this year, but had to postpone them due to a positive COVID case in their touring party.
Original support act Alice Bag is long gone replaced by Brontez Purnell who is still slotted to support next year.
Brontez Purnell is an American writer, musician, dancer, and director based out of Oakland, California. He is the author of several books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down, and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.
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On April 29 we were told (with no explanation) that this show would be pushed until summer of next year. 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.
On April 30, we got this update
This just in – Alice Bag will no longer be performing at your upcoming event.
Bikini Kill
Franklin Music Hall
Wednesday, July 13rd, 2022 at 8PM
I am bummed to see that Alice Bag won’t be opening anymore. I wonder who they’ll get instead and why did she bail a year in advance?
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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