Japanese Breakfast have announced that they're cancelling a September show at Rochester, NY, venue Main Street Armory after it was revealed that the space is also hosting the "Reawaken America" tour, which is an embarrassing travelling circus of far-right pundits featuring the likes of Eric Trump, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The "Reawaken America" tour covers exactly what you think it would, and is a safe space for those who believe in conspiracies ranging from COVID-19 falsities to the (allegedly stolen) 2020 presidential election — it's been described by New York magazine as "the start of QAnon 2.0."
The tour was set to roll through Rochester the month after Japanese Breakfast's show, and an online petition has been created that demands the owners of Main Street Armory cancel the event. Japanese Breakfast were apparently told the event had in fact been cancelled, which turned out to not be true.
"re Rochester show at the Armory. We have cancelled the event because a number of people reached out letting us know they were boycotting the venue because of the Reawaken America tour. We were told the event was cancelled and later learned it was secretly still moving forward," Michelle Zauner tweeted earlier today. "It's a picket line we support and are not interested in crossing. We are unfortunately unable to move the event to a different venue this time but we love Rochester and I am sure we will return someday soon."
See Zauner's tweets below.
The "Reawaken America" tour covers exactly what you think it would, and is a safe space for those who believe in conspiracies ranging from COVID-19 falsities to the (allegedly stolen) 2020 presidential election — it's been described by New York magazine as "the start of QAnon 2.0."
The tour was set to roll through Rochester the month after Japanese Breakfast's show, and an online petition has been created that demands the owners of Main Street Armory cancel the event. Japanese Breakfast were apparently told the event had in fact been cancelled, which turned out to not be true.
"re Rochester show at the Armory. We have cancelled the event because a number of people reached out letting us know they were boycotting the venue because of the Reawaken America tour. We were told the event was cancelled and later learned it was secretly still moving forward," Michelle Zauner tweeted earlier today. "It's a picket line we support and are not interested in crossing. We are unfortunately unable to move the event to a different venue this time but we love Rochester and I am sure we will return someday soon."
See Zauner's tweets below.
It's a picket line we support and are not interested in crossing. We are unfortunately unable to move the event to a different venue this time but we love Rochester and I am sure we will return someday soon💛
— Japanese Breakfast (@Jbrekkie) July 14, 2022