Minneapolis: This Week (02/12/2023)

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Bush


at Fillmore Minneapolis

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I believe the upcoming Bush concert at the Fillmore on Feb 6, 2023, is a make-up date for their 2020 tour in support of The Kingdom. As many of you know, 2020 proved to be a terrible year for live events due to the pandemic.

In the 90s, Bush was a massive band… but they broke up after 2000.

In 2010, the band reformed to play their first show in 8 years, and since then changed their line-up and created new songs.

With the new 2022/2023 tour, Bush released another new album, The Art of Survival.

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Ready or Hot

with Kiss the Tiger and DJ Jake Rudh

at First Avenue

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The special First Avenue and Planned Parenthood North Central States is putting together a benefit for women’s reproductive rights with their Rock, Runway, and Reproductive Rights show, taking place Feb 8th at First Avenue’s mainroom.

Planned Parenthood writes, “Come together with fellow Planned Parenthood supporters on February 8 for an evening of fashion and music at the most iconic music venue in Minneapolis, First Avenue & 7th St Entry! Ready or Hot raises essential funds that support our vital sexual and reproductive health care, inclusive sex education, and fierce advocacy in Minnesota.”

General Admission Tickets are $100, but does include a drink ticket and gift bag. Next Generation General Admission is $50.

Kiss the Tiger at Bottleneck (22 Feb 2022)

Opening will be Kiss the Tiger, who we caught in Feb 2022 at Lawrence, Kansas: “Next up was a Twin Cities favorite, Minneapolis band Kiss the Tiger, who had their third studio release, Vicious Kid, come out last June and is on their first brief tour outside of the Upper Midwest. The band began in late 2016 and has been gradually gaining more attention ever since, named a “Picked to Click” band by former alt-weekly City Pages in 2019.”

Transmission’s DJ Jake Rudh will DJ between sets.

The Charlatans UK and RIDE

with DJ Jake Rudh

at First Avenue

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Two of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands, The Charlatans (known in the USA as The Charlatans UK due to conflicting name with the American band of the same name) and Ride is on a co-headlining tour – and guess what? They’re stopping in Minneapolis on Feb 9th.

Charlatans / Stereophonics at the Quest (03 Apr 2000)

We saw The Charlatans and Tim Burgess before W♥M existed… in 2000 and 2001: “As you know, I am a big British music fan, so the co-headlining tour of The Charlatans (or as they’re known in America as Charlatans UK) and Stereophonics at the Quest in 2000 could not be missed. At that time, I wasn’t that familiar with Stereophonics, I was mostly at that show (which I could have sworn it was at the Fine Line Music Café) to see The Charlatans. I loved “Weirdo” and “The Only One I Know”, which, when I saw Tim Burgess solo at First Avenue a few years later, he only did his solo music (boo!).”

Ride at Mill City Nights (29 Sep 2015)

As for Ride, we saw them on their reunion tour in Sep 2015, “Reunions are special, not only do the band get back to doing what they loved, but they are also reuniting their fans to come together in one place. Personally speaking, we met and saw so many old shoegazing fans and friends. Some of these fans have not been seen at other shows… but for Ride, of course, they’ll come out. Many believed that this is perhaps the last time Ride will play here. Also, plenty of local bands (who were inspired by Ride and the music they help pioneer) came out to the show – in particular Ed Ackerson (of BNLX; Polara) and Two Harbors were spotted at the show.”

DJ Jake Rudh to DJ.

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Bella White


at 7th St Entry

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Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Bella White will stop by the 7th Street Entry on Feb 10. She had recently finished her co-headlining tour with Taylor Ashton, and these new 2023 seems like a continuing tour. We first mentioned White’s debut album Just Like Leaving in July 2020.

Bella White is described as “22 year old was born and raised in rural Canada by two musician parents. She was thrust into the world of Bluegrass as a young child (her father is from Virginia) – learning fingerpicking guitar and mandolin and going to jams and competitions on the weekends. And although White isn’t a rigid purist, she deeply believes it’s her duty to carry this music tradition forward, to keep it alive and turn kids her age onto it.”

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