Shirley Manson’s old band Angelfish have announced a reunion show to raise funds for Palestinian children – check out all the details below.
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Before Manson fronted Garbage, she was playing in a band called Angelfish, who are set to reunite for their first show in a decade, with all proceeds going to humanitarian aid charities for Palestinian children.
The show, which will take place at Edinburgh’s Liquid Room on January 30, marks Angelfish’s third gig since they broke up in 1995. Tickets go on sale next Friday (October 24) at 10am, and you can find yours here.
News of the gig follows Manson taking to social media to decry the “fucking evil” actions of Israeli forces in the West Bank after the murder of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy.
“Yesterday,” she wrote, “I saw a horrifying photograph of a 11 year old Palestinian schoolboy, bleeding out from his groin where he had been shot by a so called soldier during a so called ceasefire.
Per the BBC, the Israeli military said its soldiers opened fire on Thursday (October 16) in response to “confrontations and rock-hurling” directed at them, which Manson addressed in her post.
“His name was Muhammad al-Hallaq,” she continued. “He had been playing soccer with his friends in a village schoolyard south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. So called “soldiers” trained to “fight” opened fire on Muhammad and his friends because the kids had allegedly hurled some rocks. Adult soldiers with full impunity . Opening fire on children. Deliberately targeting AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD child in the groin.
“Fucking evil. Free Palestine.”
Earlier this year, Manson, who has been very vocal in her advocacy for Palestine, told NME she wanted to “urge people to read and educate themselves before they point fingers at young bands for speaking up and trying to stop the slaughter of young children and babies in their tents”.
Speaking to us in June, she said: “Please just do yourself a favour and read a book about that part of the world.
“Once you educate yourself, you start to see things much more clearly and fairly – but there seems to be no interest in anyone wanting to learn about Palestinian people. There’s a peculiar desire to erase them entirely because they’re so inconvenient. It’s like we’re talking about a whole race of people that have been scraped off Western shoes.”
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Manson took aim at the music industry and the increasing costs associated with touring. Garbage kicked off their ‘Happy Endings’ tour in Orlando in September and had previously indicated that they are “unlikely to play many of the cities” in the US “ever again”.
During a show at The Anthem in Washington DC, Manson recently took a moment to explain their decision not to continue with major headline tours in the future.
“We have as a band decided that, due to basically the economics of the music industry, that we have to curtail our headline touring business,” she said at the time. “It has, thanks to the thievery of the record industry, made touring very, very difficult.”
Speaking to NME last year, Manson opened up about the crushing and “abusive” financial strains of the music industry.
Visit here to find a list of Garbage’s remaining tour dates and purchase any remaining tickets here.
