Following the punk duo’s controversial performance at the Glastonbury Festival, a video of which police are looking into has resurfaced.
Bobby Vylan – singer of controvesial punk duo Bob Vylan – said his passion for music came from “growing up in a boring place”.
The 34-year-old musician, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, sparked chants of “death to the IDF” while on stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday afternoon. Bob Vylan’s performance was streamed live on the BBC, which has since said the comments were “deeply offensive”.
Avon and Somerset Police are now examining video evidence and investigating if any offence had been committed. However, Bobby Vylan has since said on Instagram: “I said what I said.” The defiant singer, who grew up in Ipswich, Suffolk, is no stranger to controversy as, performing a rendition of Wicked and Bad at Glastonbury in 2022, he sang “Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went”.
He stopped playing in 2021 after taking offence to a cube of ice being thrown onto the University of East Anglia student union stage midway through his performance. The punk and grime singer mistakenly believed Sarah Corbett was the one to “start abusing” her through the microphone.
Robinson-Foster stated in an early interview that he never liked football because, even before these controversyes, “people either dabbled in illegal activity or rapped” as a child. In the interview, he was discussing where his passion for music came from, which, among other things, has since been discovered online after the IDF rant.
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Bobby Dylan was performing as a grime artist by the name of Nee-Hi, who was dubbed “The Fresh Prince of Ipswich” by the music press as “The Fresh Prince of Ipswich” for his energetic performances and old-school style. By the time he was 20 years old, that was a catalyst for his growth.
The punk-rap duo has released five albums, despite only forming Bob Vylan with drummer Bobbie Dylan in 2017. However, they were initially labeled as being “too extreme” to be signed by any record label, so the pals created their own Ghost Theatre from which to launch their professional career. Soon afterward, they made their first appearance on stage, supporting Biffy Clyro and the Offspring. They also performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2021.
But the latest stunt – broadcast by the BBC – has sparked fury. Keir Starmer described the rant as “appalling hate speech” and has demanded an explanation from bosses at the BBC.
Source: Mirror
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