Glastonbury 2019: Bands who called for Tories to be killed booked to perform
 

Two bands who have called for members of the Conservative Party to be killed are to perform at Glastonbury Festival 2019.

One of Killdren's best known songs is called Kill Tory Scum while Fat White Family have called for violence against Conservatives on social media.

The Jo Cox Foundation said the language was "completely abhorrent".

"We're seeing a legitimising and normalising of harmful words and actions," it said.

Killdren, who are a "two-bit rave punk band" and claim to form the "ideal soundtrack to the worst generation in history", will play at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on Friday 28 June.

Their lyrics include: "Even if it's your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum...murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum."

The band also played a graphic set at Boomtown Fair 2018, in which they kicked, punched, and spat at a man dressed in a suit, while wearing Kill Tory Scum clothing.

The Glastonbury story was first reported by the Sunday Times. When asked about the song, the band told the paper: "The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK."

The band's YouTube page claims the song is "satirical discourse".

Also due to perform at festival is Fat White Family, who previously played at Glastonbury's Park stage in 2015.

Its song topics include abusive relationships, serial killers and addiction to class A drugs.

In a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had "blood" on their hands, and called for them to be executed.

A year earlier, they said Tories should be hanged.

Catherine Anderson, chief executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, said the language was "completely abhorrent".

Jo Cox MP was killed by a right-wing extremist in 2016, days before the Brexit referendum.

Ms Anderson told the BBC: "The direct incitement of violence and abuse, on any platform and in any sector, is wrong and something that we absolutely reject.

"We're seeing a legitimising and normalising of harmful words and actions, and this is leading to a decay in our shared language and ultimately our values, and that concerns us very much.

"We cannot but think of what happened to Jo, after whose murder we believed things would improve; instead, things have got a lot worse."

The BBC has contacted Glastonbury for its response.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48488732

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Hate speech

never heard of these bands honestly

A BOP

Not a good move , at all.

Killing any Supporter is so Wrong

We lost one Labour MP from a Evil Extreme Right Winger

silly kids

Disgraceful

The song I linked the artists insist it’s political satire. It’s pretty edge and not very funny imo but they don’t actually, like, wanna kill tories

Yet some people will think this is funny and love it,the mindset of some people is disturbing to say the least, why should England tremble eh?

The Jo Cox Foundation said it is "completely abhorrent". Go tell them they're, like, overreacting.

yes it's meant like that, bit of dark humour


same how Georgia got disqualified from eurovision in 2009, because song lyrics reminded of ''we don't want putin, i just try to shoot him''

while the actual lyrics are ''we don't wanna put in, the negative move is killing the groove, i just try to shoot in'' more a sort of Pro-Disco song, against all hate for disco music, the disco groove

but some phrases were placed quite awkwardly + with a bad english accent it came over like the former, rather than what's supposed to

Vile, political satire my arse

are these bands not British then?

that one i talked about in my post is georgian


but these 2 are british bands, of course and they have no excuse whatsoever, if they wanna make political satire with their music, well they should be prepared to face the consequences, reaction of the media etc

That’s really bad.

There’s always some nut job somewhere boiling with rage who might act on it.Even if it is supposed to somehow be satire.

Specially these days where politics is edging more to the extremes.

Are they on iTunes?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartandhp


taken off the bill

:clap1:

send them home to bed with no supper

are you confusing them with Fat White Family :omgno:

Makes Sense to remove them.

I should think so.