“And all kind of things that were dramas and personality impediments, they just kind of seemed to drop away, and our shared history stood in front of them,” she says. “It felt different, it felt better,” Hanna says of the Raincoats event, for which they played the Bikini Kill song “For Tammy Rae.” “It felt like we’d grown up, in a cool way, not in a way of like, ‘We don’t care about anything new.’
(Erica Dawn Lyle is the band’s current guitarist.) The band, minus founding guitarist Billy Karren, had fun that night, Hanna says, maybe more than they’d had in the ’90s when touring for a feminist punk band wasn’t always much fun at all. “I was like, ‘If this gets me into the show for free, let’s do it.’” “But then I was like, ‘It’s the (bleeping) Raincoats,’ and I’m going to get to see the Raincoats. “I was just kind of like, ‘It feels weird,’” Hanna says. It was all the way across the country, and it had been so long since Bikini Kill had done anything. “And then Kathi – I’m sure it was Kathi, because she’s like the secret, stealth, make-things-happen person – was just like, ‘Hmm, what if we did a Bikini Kill song and asked Kathleen?’”Īnd so they did, though at first, Hanna says she wasn’t sure she wanted to do it. “Tobi has a lot of solo material, so she was going to do one of her songs, and Kathi was going to play with her,” Hanna says.
Almost on a whim, they invited Hanna to join them. Hanna says that the writer Jenn Pelly had written a book about the British post-punk band the Raincoats, and Wilcox and Vail had been lined up to perform for the book release party. “And there was a lot of unfinished business in our band.” “Like I just wanted to be with them because it felt really kind of – I mean, this sounds corny – but it felt really healing. McEntireĦ/25: Asheville, NC Orange Peel w/ H.C.“It was almost more about hanging out at first than the music,” Hanna says of the reunion that led to a brief tour, with three nights at the Palladium in Hollywood, in 2019.
McEntireĦ/24: Charlottesville, VA The Jefferson Theater w/ H.C. Augustine AmphitheatreĦ/5: Bologna, Italy Arena Puccini w/ Big JoanieĦ/6: Milan, Italy Magnolia w/ Big JoanieĦ/8: Paris, France Trabendo w/ Big JoanieĦ/9: Paris, France Trabendo w/ Big JoanieĦ/10: Brussels, Belgium Le Botanique w/ Big JoanieĦ/12: Glasgow, United Kingdom O2 Academy Glasgow w/ Problem PatternsĦ/13: London, United Kingdom Roundhouse w/ SnoozersĦ/23: Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle w/ H.C. Bikini Kill Tour DatesĤ/26: Pioneertown, CA Pappy + Harriet’s w/ BleachedĤ/29: Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre w/ Bleachedĥ/2: Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre w/ Hunx and his Punxĥ/4: Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater w/ Hunx and his Punxĥ/5: El Paso, TX Lowbrow Palace w/ Hunx and his Punxĥ/7: Austin, TX The Mohawk w/ Hunx and his Punxĥ/8: Austin, TX The Mohawk w/ Pleasure Venomĥ/9: Dallas, TX The Factory in Deep Ellum w/ Hunx and his Punxĥ/27: Miami, FL The Ground at Clubspace w/ Glass Bodyĥ/28: Miami, FL The Ground at Clubspace w/ Las Nubesĥ/31: St. The two-night, sold-out stint will benefit Interfaith Works Nightly Shelter. Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and guitarist Erica DawnLyle are returning to where they first started as a band, Olympia, Washington. The run was initially set for 2020, but the rescheduled run has a handful of new shows throughout the U.S. Bikini Kill is kicking off their long-awaited international tour next month.
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