Minion Death Cult - #725 Politics shouldn't be allowed at festivals (preview)
Aired: 2025-07-03
Duration: 07:26


=== Performances We Put On (07:26) ===

[00:00:00]  Quote, with almost 4,000 performances at Glastonbury 2025, are you fucking 4,000 performances?
[00:00:09]  What the fuck?
[00:00:09]  How do you even do that?
[00:00:11]  Well, it is like a it's like a two-day festival.
[00:00:14]  I mean, still, how many stages?
[00:00:15]  What the fuck?
[00:00:17]  They must be counting like all like the campsite DJs.
[00:00:22]  I guess, dude.
[00:00:25]  Maybe they're talking about the performances we all put on when we appear in public.
[00:00:30]  Wow, everyone, everyone who put a mask on before they came in.
[00:00:33]  There will inevitably be artists and speakers appearing on our stages whose views we do not share, and a performer's presence here should never be seen as a tacit endorsement of their opinions and beliefs, said a statement on the Instagram accounts of the Glastonbury Festival and Emily Evis, one of the festival's organizers on Sunday.
[00:00:50]  However, we are appalled by the statements made from the Westholtz stage by Bob Villen yesterday.
[00:00:54]  The statement added, their chants very much crossed a line, and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for anti-Semitism, bing, bing, bing, hate speech, or incitement to violence.
[00:01:12]  What is the fear here?
[00:01:13]  People are going to get on a plane and go over to Palestine and Israel and go kill IDF members?
[00:01:20]  Like, what do you think is going to happen here?
[00:01:22]  I mean, they think what's going to happen is what's already happening, which is Israelis are getting fucking shouted out of stores.
[00:01:29]  They're getting not served in restaurants.
[00:01:31]  They're getting heckled when they land.
[00:01:34]  Like, it is happening, you know?
[00:01:36]  Nobody's actually, to my knowledge, you know, actually killed any members of the IDF, like outside of these actual, quote, war zones or whatever.
[00:01:50]  But I guess that is what they would be afraid of.
[00:01:53]  But it's like they're a military.
[00:01:56]  I don't know.
[00:01:56]  They're like a body that exists to do violence.
[00:01:59]  So like, I don't know.
[00:02:01]  It seems like one of the most appropriate objects of this kind of violent rhetoric.
[00:02:06]  Like they're doing the violence for real.
[00:02:10]  It's not exactly there's a surprise that there's a response of the very least rhetorical violence.
[00:02:18]  Even like, even like police aren't necessarily like signing up to hypothetically die, but in a war, you are.
[00:02:25]  Like in the military, you are.
[00:02:27]  Like this is not a wild, a wild stretch of thought.
[00:02:31]  The band members cannot be reached for comment on Sunday, on Instagram, and Saturday night.
[00:02:34]  The band's lead singer, Bobby Villan, posted a selfie with a cup of ice cream captioned, while Zionists are crying on socials, I've just had late night vegan ice cream.
[00:02:44]  Yes.
[00:02:45]  It's vegan too, Tony.
[00:02:46]  Wow.
[00:02:46]  Fuck yeah.
[00:02:47]  Oh man, maybe got a new, maybe we got a new crush.
[00:02:50]  Is there a but I wonder if they have songs about animal liberation, dude?
[00:02:55]  Not yet, maybe not yet, but we will, I hope.
[00:02:58]  The next month, the police in Britain charged Mochara, one of the band's rappers, with oh, this is NECAP, sorry.
[00:03:05]  In April, NECAP lost its U.S. visa sponsor after making anti-Israel statements at Coachella.
[00:03:11]  The next month, the police in Britain charged Mochara, one of the band's rappers with a terrorism offense for displaying the flag of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia on stage at a London show last November.
[00:03:24]  And it's funny because, yeah, like Hezbollah is like a legitimate organization.
[00:03:28]  They're like a legitimate fighting force that does represent the people of Lebanon.
[00:03:36]  But it's like they just decided, the West just decided, well, they're terrorists because they're on the opposite side of us.
[00:03:43]  They're terrorists.
[00:03:45]  Therefore, you're supporting terrorism by saying cool, like saying cool to them or whatever.
[00:03:52]  If we didn't buy their weapons like directly, then it's different, you know?
[00:03:57]  Like they, I know we, we, they're using weapons that we probably paid for, but they didn't buy them like directly from us.
[00:04:02]  So it's different, you know?
[00:04:04]  And I want, I want mecap to be a testament for everybody.
[00:04:07]  Like, um, just know that if you like do the right thing and like stand for what's right, you can do huge things with mediocre music.
[00:04:16]  Not a fan, huh?
[00:04:18]  I mean, you know, I wanted to be, but you knew I couldn't be.
[00:04:24]  Like, I support them.
[00:04:25]  I think it's cool.
[00:04:26]  I think it fucking rules.
[00:04:28]  I'm happy people like them.
[00:04:30]  Not for me.
[00:04:30]  Okay.
[00:04:31]  And that, you know, it's okay.
[00:04:32]  Not everything has to be for you, Tony.
[00:04:34]  But it's okay because I can co-sign them because they're doing the right thing.
[00:04:39]  They're standing for the right thing.
[00:04:40]  And they're actually about it.
[00:04:43]  They're actually putting their livelihood on the line for something.
[00:04:47]  Even though I'm not a huge fan of music, I'm happy people like them.
[00:04:50]  I'm happy they're finding success.
[00:04:51]  Right.
[00:04:52]  You don't necessarily not listen to the band, but you are clocking that they're standing on business.
[00:04:57]  Exactly.
[00:04:58]  So if your band sucks or whatever, if you're doing the right thing, I still fuck with you.
[00:05:03]  Right.
[00:05:03]  Unless it's a pun band name.
[00:05:06]  Unless it's a pun band name.
[00:05:07]  And then it's a case-by-case basis.
[00:05:09]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:05:10]  It means like you say if it's a plan if it's a pun band name you better have black people in the band Uh Do-do-do um Several festivals and venues dropped the band Kneecap from their lineups at BBC.
[00:05:23]  It said previously that it would cut off its traditional Glastonbury live streaming for Kneecap's performance on Saturday, but it did broadcast Bob Villain's performance live.
[00:05:31]  During the show, dozens in the crowd waved Palestinian flags.
[00:05:34]  Quote, you know this is live on the BBC, so we have to be careful what we say, Mr. Villan said during the set on Saturday.
[00:05:40]  The punk duo is known for political songs with lyrics to touch on issues including racism, poverty, and toxic masculinity.
[00:05:47]  He went on to chat, chant several pro-Palestinian messages and voice support for, quote, our mates in kneecap.
[00:05:52]  He led the crowd in a chant of free, free Palestine before pivoting into a separate phrase.
[00:05:57]  AI, but have you heard this one though?
[00:05:59]  The singer said, death, death to the IDF.
[00:06:01]  Comments in support of Palestinians are common from Glastonbury stages, but the chant was unusual and fewer fans chanted along than to other declarations.
[00:06:10]  I don't know about that.
[00:06:11]  I heard a lot of people chanting death to the IFF.
[00:06:13]  A lot of people chanting about that.
[00:06:14]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:06:16]  The band is scheduled to go on a U.S. tour this fall.
[00:06:19]  Again, I don't know if that's going to happen with dates scheduled across the country.
[00:06:24]  As of Sunday, those dates remained on the band's website.
[00:06:27]  I think, quote, I think the BBC and Glastonbury Have got questions to be answered about how we saw such a spectacle on our screens.
[00:06:34]  Wes streeting, Britain's health secretary, told Sky News on Sunday.
[00:06:40]  He called the comments a quote shameless publicity stunt, which I like that.
[00:06:47]  That's like the last line in this article.
[00:06:48]  And I really like that that's how it's being described.
[00:06:51]  It's like, yeah, they're trying to publicize the genocide that's going on in Gaza.
[00:06:55]  And they did it without shame.
[00:06:57]  That's great.
[00:06:57]  Yeah.
[00:06:58]  That's, yeah, you fucking nailed it.
[00:07:00]  It is funny because like, yeah, the BBC is kind of being held capable for not having like a 30-second delay.
[00:07:06]  Good.
[00:07:06]  Well, I mean, they show like tits and stuff on the BBC.
[00:07:09]  Come on.
[00:07:09]  Like, that's just their culture over there.
[00:07:12]  I like that you're equating tits with death.
[00:07:14]  Wow.
[00:07:16]  I see tits and I think, I think of life.
[00:07:17]  Death to the IDF.
[00:07:18]  Yeah.
[00:07:20]  When I see death to the IDF, I also think of life.
[00:07:24]  Yeah.
[00:07:24]  Yeah.
[00:07:24]  Absolutely.
[00:07:25]  Absolutely.