Feist leaves tour with Arcade Fire following sexual misconduct allegations against singer Win Butler

Leslie FeistCanadian singer-songwriter and opening act on the new tour of arcade Fire, will not perform next September 21 at the WiZink Center (Madrid) together with the indie rock group as planned. The artist, who participated on Tuesday in the first concert of the tour, held in Dublin, has announced on her social networks that she will not continue after four women accused of having been harassed by networks and sexually assaulted by the leader of the band, Win Butler, in a report published last week by the American music magazine Pitchfork.

In the investigation of pitchfork, The complainants assure that they were harassed by social networks and, one of them, also sexually assaulted twice. The events, according to their testimonies, occurred between 2015 and 2020, when they were 18 to 23 years old.

Asked in the same report about these accusations, the artist acknowledged having sent messages and having sexual interactions with the four women in a stage of depression and alcoholism, but stated that they were consensual. Régine Chassagne, his wife and his bandmate, supported him. Feist clarified in her networks that when the investigation was published, the first concert in Dublin was very close and she did not have much time to react or make a clear decision about the attitude that she should adopt. “Staying on tour would symbolize defending or ignoring the harm caused by Butler, and leaving would imply that I was judge and jury,” she explains in her statement. Finally, Feist has chosen the second option: “I cannot solve it by resigning and not even staying. But I can’t continue.”

Leslie Feist, in a performance in Los Angeles.AFP

Arcade Fire, currently made up of Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara, is one of the best-known Canadian indie rock groups in the world. The band won the 2010 Grammy for Album of the Year with The Suburbs and was nominated for best soundtrack at the Oscars for the film Her in 2013.

Leslie Feist began her music career in 1991 and has since released six studio albums. let it die (2004) Y The Reminder (2007) are the two most acclaimed by the public and together add up to more than two and a half million copies. With the latter, the Canadian artist was nominated in four categories at the Grammys, including best new artist. In addition, Feist has composed for films and series such as The Muppets, gossip-girl either Grey’s Anatomy.

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Feist leaves tour with Arcade Fire following sexual misconduct allegations against singer Win Butler