It was all the way across the country, and it had been so long since Bikini Kill had done anything. “And then Kathi – I’m sure it was Kathi, because she’s like the secret, stealth, make-things-happen person – was just like, ‘Hmm, what if we did a Bikini Kill song and asked Kathleen?’”Īnd so they did, though at first, Hanna says she wasn’t sure she wanted to do it. “Tobi has a lot of solo material, so she was going to do one of her songs, and Kathi was going to play with her,” Hanna says.

Almost on a whim, they invited Hanna to join them. Hanna says that the writer Jenn Pelly had written a book about the British post-punk band the Raincoats, and Wilcox and Vail had been lined up to perform for the book release party. “And there was a lot of unfinished business in our band.” “Like I just wanted to be with them because it felt really kind of – I mean, this sounds corny – but it felt really healing. “It was almost more about hanging out at first than the music,” Hanna says of the reunion that led to a brief tour, with three nights at the Palladium in Hollywood, in 2019. But she returned home excited to spend more time with these two women. Hanna says she had been ambivalent about doing anything more with Bikini Kill.