Indie rock singer Feist mentioned Thursday she would not tour with Arcade Fireplace after the band’s frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct.
The artist, whose full identify is Leslie Feist, pulled out of the “We” tour two days after it started in Eire, she defined in a letter to followers.
Butler, 42, has denied a Pitchfork report printed final week through which three girls accused him of inappropriate sexual interactions and one other individual accused him of sexual assault.
“I can’t proceed,” Feist, 46 wrote of her “extremely tough” selection in a prolonged letter posted on Twitter that defined her thought course of.
“To remain on tour would symbolize I used to be both defending or ignoring the hurt brought on by Win Butler and to depart would suggest I used to be the choose and jury,” she wrote.
“I used to be by no means right here to face for or with Arcade Fireplace — I used to be right here to face by myself two toes on a stage.”
“The Dangerous In Every Different” artist mentioned her songs finally made the choice for her after she performed them in the course of the tour’s first two dates.
“Listening to them by means of this lens was incongruous with what I’ve labored to make clear for myself by means of my entire profession,” she wrote.
“I’ve at all times written songs to call my very own refined difficulties, aspire to my finest self and declare duty after I must. And I’m claiming duty now and going house.”
Feist was slated to open for her fellow Canadians in the course of the tour’s European leg. No substitute had been named. Beck is ready to choose up supporting act duties when the tour reaches the states late subsequent month.
