Shirley Manson’s previous band Angelfish have introduced a reunion present to boost funds for Palestinian kids – try all the small print beneath.
Earlier than Manson fronted Rubbish, she was enjoying in a band known 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 will discover 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 known as soldier throughout a so known as ceasefire.
Per the BBC, the Israeli army 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 enjoying soccer along with his mates in a village schoolyard south of Hebron within the occupied West Financial institution. So known as “troopers” educated to “combat” opened fireplace on Muhammad and his mates as a result of the children had allegedly hurled some rocks. Grownup troopers with full impunity . Opening fireplace on kids. Intentionally focusing 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 needed to “urge folks to learn and educate themselves earlier than they level fingers at younger bands for talking up and making an attempt 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 browse 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 folks. There’s a peculiar need to erase them solely as a result of they’re so inconvenient. It’s like we’re speaking about an entire race of individuals which were scraped off Western footwear.”
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Manson took goal on the music trade and the rising prices related to touring. Rubbish kicked off their ‘Completely happy 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 lately took a second to clarify their resolution to not proceed with main headline excursions sooner or later.
“We’ve got as a band determined that, attributable to principally the economics of the music trade, that we have now to curtail our headline touring enterprise,” she stated on the time. “It has, because of the thievery of the report trade, made touring very, very tough.”
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 listing of Rubbish’s remaining tour dates and buy any remaining tickets right here.