They got back together for a one-off show on Hanna’s doorstep. Then they realised they had unfinished business: to affirm their place in the punk canon and get warring feminists offline and revelling together
ost bands wring their hands over whether to reunite or not, but for Le Tigre it was easy. The impetus was a festival in Pasadena, Los Angeles, in 2022. “It was three miles from my house,” says frontwoman, laughing. “I was like: ‘I want to do this because I can cruise down the hill and go to the festival and all my friends can come.
After her success as frontwoman of riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill in the early 1990s, Hanna had been depressed and initially uninterested in forming another band. But she and Fateman moved from their home town of Portland, Oregon, to New York City, and started Le Tigre in 1998.
The 2010s also saw the rise of gender-critical feminism, especially in the UK. Fateman speaks for the band – Samson is a pioneering genderqueer musician – when she says: “Let’s go on the record for your newspaper that we are completely against that kind of feminism, if you want to call it feminism.” But don’t expect another Le Tigre album soon. “We haven’t exhausted this material,” says Hanna. “It’s still challenging and exciting to perform, and I’m understanding nuances in the songs that I didn’t notice before. I’m having real pride in our songwriting and so I don’t see any need to write anything new.”The glitchy, political FYR is one of those still-relevant songs, named after Shulamith Firestone, who wrote that for every 10 years of feminist activism there will be 50 years of ridicule.
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