Bob Vylan have been dropped by their agent following their performance at Glastonbury. The JC understands that the duo’s management have also parted company with them.
The United Talent Agency dropped the British punk-rap duo after one of their two members led a chant calling for “death, death to the IDF” during their set on Saturday afternoon at the festival’s West Holts stage. Bobby Vylan (who fronts the band, with Bobbie Vylan on drums) shouted slogans including “free, free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea”.
Bobby Vylan shared a statement on Instagram on Sunday evening after Glastonbury organisers criticised his comments onstage as “appalling” and that they “very much crossed a line”.
In a statement captioned “I said what I said”, he commented that he had been “inundated” with a mixture of “support and hatred”.
He continued: “Teaching our children to speak up for the change they want and need is the only way that we make this world a better place. As we grow older and our fire possibly starts to dim under the suffocation of adult life and all its responsibilities, it is incredibly important that we encourage and inspire future generations to pick up the torch that was passed to us.
“Let us display to them loudly and visibly the right thing to do when we want and need change. Let them see us marching in the streets, campaigning on ground level, organising online and shouting about it on any and every stage that we are offered.
Today it is a change in school dinners, tomorrow it is a change in foreign policy.”
The duo formed in Ipswich in 2017, have released four albums blending grime, punk and hard rock, and won best alternative music act at the Mobo Awards in 2022.
The JC has contacted Bob Vylan for a comment.
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