Singer Bobby Vylan did NOT hold back. It's explosive and there's a lot of swearing.
"Bob Vylan took to the stage at Boardmasters Festival following calls for the punk/rap duo to be removed from the line-up. The festival appearance comes around six weeks after police in Somerset began an investigation into singer Bobby Vylan leading the crowd at Glastonbury into a chant calling for ‘Death to the IDF’ - the Israeli Defence Force.
Cornwall Council agreed to hold a licensing hearing following a public complaint regarding Bob Vylan still being able to perform at the festival, but not taking place until after the band has appeared at the event.
The band has also had their US visas revoked and other tour dates cancelled. During their performance the duo’s frontman spoke out against the British Government, Reform UK and Israel...
... You know they didn’t want us here, right? Reform UK didn’t want us here with you Boardmasters.
"But f**k Reform and here we are. It was a little bit of a battle to get here. Some of your local MPs didn’t want us here. Some of the Zionist lobby groups didn’t want us here.
“Because we speak the truth. Because we will not and cannot be silenced. Because we dare to take this stage and say f**k England and its terrible foreign policy.
"Because we dare to say ‘f**k the Israeli Government and the atrocity, and their crimes of genocide that they are committing and because we dare to say Free Free Palestine.
“Each and every single time they will not shut us up, they can not shut us up. And we will not go silently, I tell you that."
-
"We had a very tough decision to make because it was either, let these right wing politicians and the media and these Zionist lobby groups feel as though they have removed us if we decide to step down, and because we know that’s what they are going to spin it.
"Or we play the show and we take that ‘blood money’ and we don’t put any of it in our pockets, and we give it to the people that need it on the ground doing the work there in Palestine."
-
"[There are a] very special group of people, all kinds of special, and that is the Reform voters out there. They're a special group of people in our heart.
"And the reform MP's, they're trying to get us removed from this stage and they have been trying to get us removed from any other stage that we find ourselves on.
"And UKIP party, because they're apparently still fucking knocking about somewhere, and they said they were going to deport us, but I think more specifically myself because there is question as to whether or not I'm a British citizen.
"I can tell you this much, I don't have my birth certificate with me but I promise you, I was born on this wretched island. I do have plans of leaving one day because the way that things are going are getting worse and worse but I think I will leave when I'm good and ready and I've given this wretched country enough hell." ..."
