Mar 25, 2022 Comments Off on For everyone who keeps asking me when we are going to reschedule album release shows and announce tour dates in support of my new record for Kill Rock Stars, this is where we are headed:
For everyone who keeps asking me when we are going to reschedule album release shows and announce tour dates in support of my new record for Kill Rock Stars, this is where we are headed:
The reality is, for many disabled artists and bands with people who have pre-existing conditions or compromised immune systems, playing shows without pretty extreme Covid safety precautions is not on the table right now.
THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER.
I can’t stress enough how thankful I am to be signed to a label that supports its artists and prioritizes our wellness and safety.
Label and labelmate support aside, you would not believe how much grief I’ve gotten from all kinds of people for pulling out of our tour and SXSW.
I wouldn’t normally spend an entire week retweeting the posts of friends, artists, and colleagues who caught Covid at a festival, but SXSW balked at all of our attempts to create (and pay for out of pocket) an actually safe environment for my showcase to still happen this year. They said no to keeping me safe, and we told them to go screw.
LOL ABLEISM.
Anyway, I stand by everything I wrote HERE when we pulled out of the festival and I am so fucking glad we didn’t go.
And please, for the love of music, wear your masks when you go to a show. It’s not that fucking hard and you are literally going to kill folks like me if you don’t.
I can’t make you all care about other people — but I wish you would. Live music should be accessible. Full stop.
