Arcade Fire will be without Feist on their world tour. Feist announced on Thursday that she will no longer tour with the band amid allegations of sexual misconduct against Win Butler, the frontman of Arcade Fire.
Feist opened for the band in Dublin on Aug. 30 and 31. “At a pub in Dublin, after rehearsing with my band, I read the same headline you did,” Feist wrote in a statement on Instagram. “We didn’t have any time to prepare for what was coming let alone a chance to decide not to fly across the ocean into the belly of this situation.
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 MORE: Arcade Fire Frontman Win Butler Responds To Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct Made Against Him By Multiple People “This has ignited a conversation that is bigger than me, it’s bigger than my songs and it’s certainly bigger than any rock and roll tour.
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