{"id":410862,"date":"2025-09-09T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410862\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:22:10","slug":"bob-vylan-announce-glasgow-gig-in-aftermath-of-bbc-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410862\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Vylan announce Glasgow gig in aftermath of BBC criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The BBC was criticised in the aftermath for showing the performance when the band chanted \u2018death, death to the IDF\u2019, with the channel having already made the decision not to broadcast Irish rap group Kneecap\u2019s performance over fears of what they would say about Palestine and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bob Vylan has now announced a new tour with tickets to go on pre-sale on Wednesday before general sale on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They begin in Leeds before travelling to Manchester and their third night will be at the O2 Academy in Glasgow on Thursday, November 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read More<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They posted on social media to say: \u201cAfter all the attempts to silence us, we\u2019re about to be louder than ever. We won\u2019t go quietly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking earlier today, Mr Davie told the Culture, Media and Sport Committee that the performance was \u2018antisemitic\u2019 and \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think I misread it, I just got there (to Glastonbury) when I heard about it (at) about five o\u2019clock \u2026 the performance was well done by then, and at that point I knew absolutely that it was an antisemitic broadcast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cSo, my decision was to get that off on demand, simple as that, I mean, it wasn\u2019t too complicated in my mind, and to your point, I do think it was deeply disturbing, deeply disturbing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI mean, personally, I\u2019ve talked to many people about this, I thought it was deeply disturbing what happened, I mean the BBC made a very significant mistake, very significant, in broadcasting that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut you know, the fact that those words were broadcast to that broad audience, it was, frankly, to your point, it was disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC was criticised in the aftermath for showing the performance when the band chanted \u2018death, death to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175264448429731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}