Bristol Punks Idles have announced an all-female UK tour support bill for their upcoming UK 2021 tour.
The band are set to play various shows around the UK which will feature support off several all female artists and bands.
The tour will Jehnny Beth, Big Joanie, Sinead O’Brien, Witch Fever, Cate Le Bon, Shopping, Anna Calvi and Wych Elm on the 17 date run.
This follows the news follows criticism which was aimed at the band for a lack of representation on previous tours.
“It’s fair,” frontman Joe Talbot told NME. “Of course it is. You can’t respond to [the critics] like, ‘You’re wrong – how dare you?’ It’s a conversation to be had. We haven’t had enough of a mix of people who are representative of the whole demographic of what we’re about. Absolutely.”
Here are the tour dates.
2021
May
7th – Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
8th – Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
9th- Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
10th – Newcastle O2 City Hall (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
12th – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
13th – Birmingham O2 Academy (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
14th – Sheffield O2 Academy (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
16th – Dublin Vicar Street (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
17th – Dublin Vicar Street (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
18th – Dublin Vicar Street (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
20th – Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
21st – Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
22nd – Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
June
18th – London O2 Academy Brixton (w/ Sinead O’Brien and Witch Fever)
19th – London O2 Academy Brixton (w/ Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie)
20th – London O2 Academy Brixton (w/ Cate Le Bon and Shopping)
21st – London O2 Academy Brixton (w/ Anna Calvi and Wych Elm)
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