The British punk duo Bob Vylan is being scrapped in more and more places from the concert agendas after the remark ‘Death at the Israeli army’, on Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival in England. In October Bob Vylan is on the program in the Poppodium 013 Poppodium. The artists are just welcome there. “There is no reason for us to cancel them nor to see them as a scapegoat,” says director Frens Frijns.
If it is up to Frijns, Bob Vylan will perform in Tilburg on October 19. “Of course we see the commotion around Bob Vylan,” says the 013 director. “We also see very clearly in the statement that they did not literally mean that people should die.”
Vylan states that they have since been ‘flooded with messages from both support and hatred’. “We are not before the death of Jews, Arabs or any other population group,” the artists said in a statement.
The whole situation caused a lot of fuss in recent days. Bob Vylan has since been canceled at various festivals and a concert in Cologne has also been canceled. The American visa of the rap duo has also been withdrawn. For the time being, the performance in the Amsterdam Poppodium Paradiso will continue.
No place for anti -Semitism
Glastonbury Festival boss Emily Eavis says he distances himself from the statements. “We are shocked by the statements that Bob Vylan made. Their slogans were clearly about the wrote and we urgently remind everyone who is involved in the production of the festival that there is no room for anti -Semitism, hate speech or inciting violence on Glastonbury.”
The statement of Bob Vylan:
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