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Watch Le Tigre reunite for their first show in over a decade

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Le Tigre, a dance punk group featuring Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson, reunited for the first time in 11 years over the weekend – check out footage below.The band appeared at the Saturday (27 August) of This Ain’t No Picnic festival before headliners LCD Soundsystem.Le Tigre started their first gig since 2011 with 1999’s ‘The The Empty’.

The 16-song set saw the group also perform ‘Hot Topic’, ‘Phanta’, ‘TKO’ and ‘Deceptacon’. Check out footage below:Le Tigre played:‘The The Empty’‘TKO’‘Hot Topic’‘My My Metrocard’‘FYR’‘Mediocrity Rules’‘On The Verge’‘Seconds’‘Viz’‘What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes’‘Punker Plus’‘Shred A’‘Eau d’Bedroom Dancing’‘Keep On Livin’’‘Phanta’‘Deceptacon’According to Samson, Le Tigre were asked to reunite for the 2020 edition of This Ain’t No Picnic, before it was cancelled due to COVID.

Speaking to Spin, Samson said: “We felt that it was really important for us to reunite prior to the 2020 election. We felt the relevance of our music would really stir up something important within our community.

And obviously that was cancelled because of COVID. We just continued to want to present the material again.”“We went in really different directions after we stopped playing shows in 2005.

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