We all know how the lobby works at this point: after already being dropped by their management, having their US visas revoked, and being put under police investigation, British punk duo Bob Vylan have now also been removed from the line-up at Radar Festival in Manchester on Saturday, as well as French festival Kave Fest on Sunday.
In response, Vylan issued this statement on Instagram:
“Silence is not an option. We will be fine, the people of Palestine are hurting. Manchester we will be back.”
Bob Vylan sent the BBC, Glastonbury and politicians around the country into meltdown at Glastonbury last weekend when they led the 200,000-strong crowd into chants of ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Death to the IDF’. The whole thing was broadcast live on the BBC, as organisers were too busy ensuring that another pro-Palestine band, Kneecap, were kept off air.
I’m sure Vylan will have expected some consequences for what they did, but I’m not sure they realised they would be dropped from basically every festival that had them booked over the summer and beyond. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, to be fair. After all, they’re an ant-establishment punk band. Getting banned from venues and festivals and countries is a selling point. Their punk CV has never looked better! If they handle this right, they may actually have a career for life.
Then again, they have managed to p1ss off the most powerful and influential people in the world, let alone the entertainment industry, and so nothing’s off the table yet as far as the police investigation goes. Surely they wouldn’t throw a musician in jail for saying ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Death to the IDF’ on stage, would they? That would be a very depressing state of affairs indeed.
For the time Logan Paul expertly trolled the BBC by sending a lookalike to be interviewed by them, click HERE.
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