Leslie Feist: Last News

Singer-songwriter Feist has announced that she will no longer fulfil the support slot on Arcade Fire's world tour, after the band's frontman was accused of sexual misconduct.

Feist has left Arcade Fire's WE tour after sexual misconduct allegations against the band's frontman Win Butler emerged last weekend. The 46-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter, who was the indie rock band's opening act, announced that she had decided to exit the tour in a lengthy note that she posted to Instagram on Thursday, "At a pub in Dublin, after rehearsing with my band, I read the same headline you did.

saying all of the instances were consensual.Canadian star Feist – full name Leslie Feist – shared a statement on social media, saying: ‘At a pub in Dublin, after rehearsing with my band, I read the same headline you did.‘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.’She said that the claims ‘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 … To stay on tour would symbolize I was either defending or ignoring the harm caused by Win Butler and to leave would imply I was the judge and jury.’Feist went on: ‘I was never here to stand for or with Arcade Fire – 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.‘There isn’t a singular path to heal when you’ve endured any version of the above, nor a singular path to rehabilitate the perpetrators.‘It can be a lonely road to make sense of ill treatment.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticWhen Feist takes to the stage for four shows over two nights at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium this week, some burning questions may be raised. Like: Where is the stage, exactly? This experimental, very intimate.

Two titans of Canadian music are coming together for one special performance.