Shirley Manson’s outdated band Angelfish have introduced a reunion present to boost funds for Palestinian kids – take a look at all the small print under.
Earlier than Manson fronted Rubbish, she was taking part in 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 help charities for Palestinian kids.
The present, which is able to 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“Yesterday,” she wrote, “I noticed a horrifying {photograph} of a 11 yr outdated Palestinian schoolboy, bleeding out from his groin the place he had been shot by a so referred to as soldier throughout a so referred to as ceasefire.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 navy stated its troopers opened fireplace 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 taking part in soccer along 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 fireplace on Muhammad and his buddies as a result of the youngsters had allegedly hurled some rocks. Grownup troopers with full impunity . Opening fireplace on kids. Intentionally concentrating on AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD little one within the groin.
“Fucking evil. Free Palestine.”
Earlier this yr, Manson, who has been very vocal in her advocacy for Palestine, advised NME she needed 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 kids 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 find out about Palestinian individuals. There’s a peculiar want to erase them fully as a result of they’re so inconvenient. It’s like we’re speaking about an entire race of individuals which have been scraped off Western footwear.”
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Manson took intention on the music business and the growing 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 lots of the cities” within the US “ever once more”.
Throughout a present at The Anthem in Washington DC, Manson not too long ago took a second to clarify their choice to not proceed with main headline excursions sooner or later.
“We’ve as a band determined that, attributable to principally the economics of the music business, that we’ve to curtail our headline touring enterprise,” she stated on the time. “It has, because of the thievery of the report business, made touring very, very troublesome.”
Chatting with NME final yr, Manson opened up concerning the crushing and “abusive” monetary strains of the music business.
Go to right here to discover a listing of Rubbish’s remaining tour dates and buy any remaining tickets right here.
