L7 have announced a trio of shows at which they'll play their classic 1992 album Bricks Are Heavy in full.
Produced by Butch Vig, the LA punk quartet's second album featured three UK Top 40 singles - Pretend We're Dead, Everglade and Monster - and peaked at number 24 in the UK albums chart on May 2, 1992.
Supporting the album, the band toured Europe with Faith No More, and made a still-talked-about appearance on the UK TV, performing Pretend We're Dead on The Word. Memorably, in the summer of 1992, the group also played Reading festival in the UK, a gig notorious for the fact that it featured vocalist/guitarist Donita Sparks throwing a bloody tampon into the crowd.
“For a while I was bummed out about the fuss it caused because I was worried my mum would find out,” she admitted to Classic Rock last year. “Not that she’s a prude, because she isn’t, but she’d have been very disappointed in me. But now it’s almost become a piece of performance art. It crosses over into a lot of different areas of appreciation – or disdain. I get a kick out of both reactions.”
