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‘It Was Horrific’: Radar Festival Speaks Out on Bob Vylan Cancellation

www.billboard.com ‘It Was Horrific’: Radar Festival Speaks Out on Bob Vylan Cancellation

Manchester’s Radar Festival says it was left with no choice but to pull Bob Vylan from its lineup following their controversial set at Glastonbury.

In a new interview organizer Catherine Jackson-Smith shared that the festival did not want to cancel the group’s headline set.

“It was categorically one of the most horrendous professional discussions I’ve ever had,” she said. “I cannot express clearly enough that I wanted Bob Vylan to perform at our festival. But this was not our decision.”

According to Jackson-Smith, Radar was caught between behind-the-scenes conversations involving the venue, its co-owners AMG and Live Nation, and local authorities. The decision to drop Bob Vylan was presented as an ultimatum: either cancel the band’s appearance or risk losing the entire Saturday program.

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You can feel their fear. They lost the narrative for their crimes against humanity and they're trying to do whatever they can to prevent the spreading of the truth.
Bob Vylan is so based.

Streisand effect. I’ve never heard of Bob Vylan before, am now a fan.
- Same here. Their merch site was mostly sold out when I last looked so I bought all their albums on Bandcamp.
- Yeah I've listened to their music now, it's not bad at all.
  Production value is a little low on tracks but could be part of the grunge sound they're going for.
  Certainly will keep listening

It’s hard to have a spine
- Genocide is fine...
  
  Let's all fall in line.

I see Live Nation is expanding in Europe. Get ready for ticket prices to skyrocket.

co-owners AMG and Live Nation
As if I needed another reason to hate Live Nation/Ticketmaster...

the statements made by Bobby Vylan, of punk duo Bob Vylan, during their set on Saturday. The performer led crowds on the festival's West Holts Stage in chants of "death, death to the IDF."
Hear, hear!

“We are the violent punks, because sometimes you gotta get your message across with violence because that is the only language some people speak, unfortunately.” ~~- Hamas, IDF~~ - Bobby Vylan

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