Cindy Lee announces tour dates after removing all music from Spotify

Posted On August 13, 2025August 13, 2025

The mysterious rock artist Cindy Lee has announced four tour dates in November in Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, and Montreal.

This news comes after Cindy Lee, the performance and songwriting project of Canadian musician Patrick Flegel, removed their entire catalogue from all streaming platforms, including Spotify. Their discography now resides exclusively on Bandcamp.

Lee joins an exodus of artists who are boycotting Spotify due to the troubling investments of CEO, Daniel Ek. It was recently announced that Ek is leading a €600 million investment into a start-up company specialising in artificial intelligence military software.

Lee’s choice of location for the new shows is purposeful. On a previous 2024 tour celebrating the sprawling Diamond Jubilee, Flegel abruptly cancelled shows halfway through “due to personal reasons within the touring party.”

Flegel is now making good on four cities that the touring party had previously been forced to cancel. Ticket pre-sale begins on August 13th, with general public on-sale starting on August 15th.

The press release suggests this is the official resumption of the previous Diamond Jubilee tour. Freak Heat Waves will return as support for three of the four shows. The Chicago show will take place at the original venue for 2024, Empty Bottle.

Fans have also been treated by the ‘Baby Blue’ singer, as their move to Bancamp means that Their 2020 Cat O’ Nine Tails is available online for the first time. It was initially released just two months after What’s Tonight to Eternity. This project was hailed as a direct predecessor to the two-hour masterpiece, Diamond Jubilee.

In a four and a half star review of Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee, Far Out wrote, “Even the imperfections, of which there are naturally a few in the two-hour experiment, seem to express a sense of moving senescence, as though the album is an evolving body of work rather than a fixed and polished analogue product. The mystic Cindy Lee character that Patrick Flegel puts forth even plays a part in eliciting thoughts of unbound creativity in the post-truth age. And all of this is done with stirring skill and sweet catchiness.”

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