Feist drops out of Arcade Fire tour

thefader.com:

Feist will no longer perform on the remaining dates of her tour with Arcade Fire. The singer announced her cancellations on Thursday (September 1), two days after the beginning of the tour was rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler.

Butler has denied the allegations and a source close to the band has said the tour would continue. "At a pub in Dublin, after rehearsing with my band, I read the same headline you did," Feist's letter begins. "This has been incredibly difficult for me and I can only imagine how much more difficult it's been for the people who came forward.

More than anything I wish healing to those involved." Read Next: Report: Feist will donate proceeds from merch sales at Arcade Fire show in Dublin to domestic violence group The decision to drop out of the tour came in part due to the perception of solidarity with Butler that Feist's participation could have engendered. "I was never here to stand for or with Arcade Fire," Feist writes." I was here to stand on my own two feet on a stage, a place I've grown to feel I belong and I've earned as my own." "We all have a story within a spectrum ranging from baseline toxic masculinity to pervasive misogyny to actually being physically, psychologically, emotionally or sexually assaulted," Feist continues. "It can be a lonely road to make sense of ill treatment.