Shirley Manson’s previous band Angelfish have introduced a reunion present to lift funds for Palestinian youngsters – take a look at all the small print beneath.
Earlier than Manson fronted Rubbish, she was enjoying in a band referred to as Angelfish, who’re set to reunite for his or her first present in a decade, with all proceeds going to humanitarian assist charities for Palestinian youngsters.
The present, which can happen at Edinburgh’s Liquid Room on January 30, marks Angelfish’s third gig since they broke up in 1995. Tickets go on sale subsequent Friday (October 24) at 10am, and you could find yours right here.
Information of the gig follows Manson taking to social media to decry the “fucking evil” actions of Israeli forces within the West Financial institution after the homicide of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy.
“Yesterday,” she wrote, “I noticed a horrifying {photograph} of a 11 12 months previous Palestinian schoolboy, bleeding out from his groin the place he had been shot by a so referred to as soldier throughout a so referred to as ceasefire.
Per the BBC, the Israeli army stated its troopers opened hearth on Thursday (October 16) in response to “confrontations and rock-hurling” directed at them, which Manson addressed in her put up.
“His identify was Muhammad al-Hallaq,” she continued. “He had been enjoying soccer together with his buddies in a village schoolyard south of Hebron within the occupied West Financial institution. So referred to as “troopers” skilled to “struggle” opened hearth on Muhammad and his buddies as a result of the youngsters had allegedly hurled some rocks. Grownup troopers with full impunity . Opening hearth on youngsters. Intentionally concentrating on AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD youngster within the groin.
“Fucking evil. Free Palestine.”
Earlier this 12 months, Manson, who has been very vocal in her advocacy for Palestine, advised NME she wished to “urge individuals to learn and educate themselves earlier than they level fingers at younger bands for talking up and attempting to cease the slaughter of younger youngsters and infants of their tents”.
Chatting with us in June, she stated: “Please simply do your self a favour and skim a ebook about that a part of the world.
“When you educate your self, you begin to see issues far more clearly and pretty – however there appears to be little interest in anybody desirous to study Palestinian individuals. There’s a peculiar need to erase them totally as a result of they’re so inconvenient. It’s like we’re speaking about a complete race of individuals which were scraped off Western sneakers.”
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Manson took intention on the music trade and the rising prices related to touring. Rubbish kicked off their ‘Comfortable Endings’ tour in Orlando in September and had beforehand indicated that they’re “unlikely to play most of the cities” within the US “ever once more”.
Throughout a present at The Anthem in Washington DC, Manson lately took a second to elucidate their determination to not proceed with main headline excursions sooner or later.
“We’ve got as a band determined that, resulting from mainly the economics of the music trade, that we’ve to curtail our headline touring enterprise,” she stated on the time. “It has, due to the thievery of the file trade, made touring very, very troublesome.”
Chatting with NME final 12 months, Manson opened up in regards to the crushing and “abusive” monetary strains of the music trade.
Go to right here to discover a record of Rubbish’s remaining tour dates and buy any remaining tickets right here.
