Musicians, particularly punk acts, making headlines for their authorities is thing new.
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Rage Against The Machine - successful 2025, it's Kneecap and present Bob Vylan riling politicians.
But successful the lawsuit of chants made by Bob Vylan connected signifier astatine Glastonbury, it is not conscionable MPs. Festival organiser Emily Eavis has besides condemned the comments contempt the festival's advocacy for escaped speech, saying they "very overmuch crossed a line".
Police are investigating footage of the performance, which has since been removed by the BBC, to spot if immoderate offences were committed.
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So who are Bob Vylan?
The duo are Bobby Vylan, the frontman, and drummer Bobbie Vylan. They person not revealed their existent names to support their privacy.
They formed successful Ipswich successful 2017 and their philharmonic benignant is simply a premix of punk, rap, and hard rock.
They person released 3 albums - We Live Here (2020), Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life (2022), and past year's Humble As The Sun - and their euphony has won them awards including champion alternate enactment astatine the MOBOs successful 2022, and champion medium astatine the Kerrang Awards successful the aforesaid year.
Their songs face issues including racism, homophobia, toxic masculinity, and far-right politics, and the way Pretty Songs is often introduced by Bobby saying that "violence is the lone connection that immoderate radical understand".
Gigs often see immoderate crowd-surfing from the frontman, and they person collaborated with artists including Amyl And The Sniffers vocalist Amy Taylor, Soft Play guitarist Laurie Vincent, and stone set Kid Kapichi.
In an interrogation with The Guardian past year, Bobby Vylan told however helium attended his archetypal pro-Palestine protestation astatine the property of 15, escorted by a friend's mother.
The duo person been outspoken connected the war successful Gaza and called retired different acts seen arsenic left-wing who haven't been showing the aforesaid magnitude of nationalist solidarity.
The Glastonbury set
Before their quality astatine the festival, the duo highlighted it to fans watching astatine home, posting connected Facebook: "Turns retired we're yet astatine a constituent wherever the BBC spot america connected unrecorded tv! Watch america unrecorded either successful the tract oregon successful the comfortableness of your ain home!"
On stage, they performed successful beforehand of a surface bearing respective statements, including 1 which claimed Israel's actions successful Gaza magnitude to "genocide".
Afterwards, arsenic contention implicit the acceptable grew, they appeared to treble down with statements shared connected societal media.
Their comments person drawn disapproval from the Israeli embassy and MPs - and present Glastonbury and Emily Eavis, too.
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Festival performers criticise governmental interference
Bob Vylan performed connected signifier up of Kneecap, kept connected the measure contempt calls for them to beryllium axed.
Michael Eavis, the festival's founder, said earlier the lawsuit that radical who did not similar the authorities could "go determination else".
However, Bob Vylan's comments pushed things excessively far, a connection posted by the festival and Emily Eavis said connected Sunday morning.
"As a festival, we basal against each forms of warfare and terrorism," the connection said. "We volition ever judge successful - and actively run for - hope, unity, bid and love."
With astir 4,000 performances implicit the weekend, determination volition beryllium artists and speakers appearing "whose views we bash not share", they continued, "and a performer's beingness present should ne'er beryllium seen arsenic a tacit endorsement of their opinions and beliefs".
But they described the statements by Bob Vylan arsenic "appalling".
"Their chants precise overmuch crossed a enactment and we are urgently reminding everyone progressive successful the accumulation of the festival that determination is nary spot astatine Glastonbury for antisemitism, hatred code oregon incitement to violence."