Bikini Kill are going back on the road this summer for a North American tour. Joining them for select shows along the way are openers Comet Gain, Big Joanie, Tropical Fuck Storm, Snoozers, and R.Aggs. Find the complete list of tour dates below.
03-03 Mexico City, Mexico - Pabellón Oeste del Palacio de los Deportes
03-05 São Paulo, Brazil - Audio
03-07 Santiago, Chile - Blondie
03-09 Buenos Aires, Argentina - C Complejo Art Media
03-12 Lima, Peru - Centro de Convenciones Leguía
03-14 São Paulo, Brazil - Audio
06-01 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-02 Bordeaux, France - Grand Parc Bordeaux *
06-03 Paris, France - Élysée Montmartre ^
06-05 Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma ^
06-06 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg ^
06-08 Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus #
06-09 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega #
06-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Pustervik #
06-12 London, England - Roundhouse $
06-13 Leeds, England - O2 Academy Leeds %
06-14 Glasgow, Scotland - O2 Academy Glasgow %
06-16 Birmingham, England - The Crossing Digbeth %
08-15 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
08-16 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
08-18 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
08-19 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
08-21 Forest Grove, OR - Grand Lodge
08-27 Denver, CO - Mission Ballroom
08-29 Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater
08-30 Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed
08-31 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
09-03 Toronto, Ontario - History
09-04 Montreal, Quebec - L’Olympia
09-06 Portland, ME - State Theatre
09-07 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
09-08 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
09-10 Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall
09-11 Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage
Kathleen Hanna is celebrating her upcoming memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk with a run of book tour dates, scheduled for May 2024.
Kathleen Hanna Announces Memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk Arriving in May 2024
Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman plans spring release for autobiography that includes passages on her bandmates, Kurt Cobain, and others.
The Bikini Kill singer will kick things off on the book’s release day — May 14th — at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre. She’ll then make stops in cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and more, wrapping up the 10-date trek with an event in Philadelphia.
Kathleen Hanna 2024 Tour Dates:
05/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
05/15 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
05/16 – Cincinnati, OH @ Mason High School
05/18 – Chicago, IL @ Hermann Hall
05/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ First Congregational Church
05/21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Sydney Goldstein Theater
05/22 – Seattle, WA @ Town Hall Seattle
05/23 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
05/28 – Boston, MA @ The Wilbur Theatre
05/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ WHYY Studio
In June Le Tigre Kicked off their first UK and European tour in 18 years. Hanna reunited with Le Tigre and booked a string of tour dates that run through the end of July. She reunited with Bikini Kill for a short tour in 2019 (which included a performance of “Rebel Girl” with Joan Jett).
She looks back on her turbulent formative years and success as the singer for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre in a new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, Hanna details the difficulties of both finding gigs and surviving as a musician who became a lightning rods for controversy, facing male violence, and antagonism as they fought against the patriarchal punk movement.
The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her epiphanies at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen College where she launched a fanzine called Bikini Kill and later a like-named band with drummer Tobi Vail and bassist-singer Kathi Wilcox.
She’ll also recall how hard it was to tour, especially when, as a feminist, she attracted chauvinist attacks. The book will contain her insights on the formative years of the riot grrrl movement and her misgivings about what the publisher describes as the scenes “later exclusivity.”
She’ll also write about her friendships with musicians, including Kurt Cobain (Hanna inspired the title “Smells Like Teen Spirit”), Ian MacKaye (who produced Bikini Kill’s 1992 self-titled debut), and Joan Jett (who produced Bikini Kill’s rally-cry single, “Rebel Girl”). She also writes about falling in love with and eventually marrying Adam Horovitz (aka the Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock) and finding life outside of Bikini Kill in her group, the Julie Ruin, and Le Tigre. She also writes about her battle of living with Lyme disease.
Following their European dates, they will be playing a run of US shows with support from Who Is She?, Morgan And The Organ Donors, Claud, Man On Man, Erin Markey, cumgirl8, Pom Pom Squad, Shamir, Morgan Bassichis and HYD.
The dance punk group, also featuring Johanna Fateman and JD Samson, reunited for the first time in 11 years last summer at the This Ain’t No Picnic festival in Los Angeles.
