GB News host Tom Harwood has delivered a scathing verdict on punk rap duo Bob Vylan following their "malicious" performance at Glastonbury Festival.United Talent Agency has dropped the band following their controversial actions at the music festival on Saturday, where they led chants of "death to the IDF" from the West Holts stage.FULL STORY HERE.
00:00Yes, reports are coming in to us that Bob Villain has now been dropped by his agent after controversial Glastonbury gig as the BBC admits that they regret not pulling the live stream of the performance.
00:11Yes, that's the breaking news just coming in now. Multiple reports suggest that Bob Villain has been dropped by his agent.
00:18This after a unrepentant non-apology posted to Instagram earlier today and, of course, the widespread condemnation from political, societal media figures as well and the intervention of Ofcom into the decision of the BBC to broadcast those chants, demanding that the crowd join in with the phrase death, death, death to the IDF.
00:46I mean, this is an interesting development, isn't it, Tom? Because music and Glastonbury in particular has always been edgy.
00:54It's always had this kind of political side to it. And, you know, you could say, well, within the confines of the law, why shouldn't people be allowed to say what they want in an event like that?
01:04But obviously, it's not just the BBC that are now in trouble. His agent think that this is a commercial problem, a moral problem. We don't know.
01:11Well, I think it's clearly a commercial problem. We've seen reports earlier today that the US State Department is considering revoking his work visa.
01:19Oh, sorry, their work visa. It's a duo. Bob Villain is a duo.
01:22And they were going to go and perform in the United States in dozens of cities in the United States over the coming months.
01:29So if their work visa is withdrawn by the Trump administration after these comments, well, perhaps that's just a commercial decision that the agent is making, that this is no longer a profitable duo because so few places would have to hear them.
01:45Yeah, I wonder if they're regretting what they said and did. But I mean, lots of people are talking about this as what does the law say about free speech?
01:53What does Ofcom say about regulations? But it isn't just about the law.
01:56It's a sense of common decency in terms of what you will and won't say in public, the kind of violence that you're willing to call for.
02:04You can't legislate for every kind of aspect of speech, and we definitely wouldn't want to.
02:08No.
02:08But to have some sort of coherent sense of safe society, we need people to put limits on themselves in terms of what they're willing to say.
02:14Well, absolutely. And this is the sort of societal response that I think I would expect, really, from any upright and self-reputable agent when one of their stars has just chanted on the stage in front of thousands upon thousands of people, death, death, death, or as they pronounced it, death, death, death.
02:35I don't know if that was just to make the IDF rhyme work. But no, it is extraordinary that there is just such hatred there and such malice.
02:46I mean, I can't think of any other cause, really, that would espouse as something that is to be sought after, death.
02:55And it's the two-tier nature of it, isn't it? They wouldn't shout death for Hamas.
