The 1975 sued by Malaysian Festival for $2.4M

[Teletubby 125,493]

 

The organizer of Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival has filed a lawsuit against the 1975 and all its members individually following frontman Matty Healy’s protest against the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws during the event last July. The festival is seeking £1.9 million ($2.4 million) after the band’s antics resulted in the festival being shut down.

In court documents filed by festival organizers Future Sound Asia in the U.K. High Court, they claim that the 1975 and their management team were aware of the numerous prohibitions the band had to abide by in order to perform. They point out the band previously performed at the festival in 2016 and were told of the prohibitions then and were reminded multiple times again ahead of the performance last summer.

These included swearing, smoking and drinking on stage, taking off clothes and talking about politics or religion.

Further guidelines issues by the Malaysia Central Agency for the Application for Foreign Filming and Performance by Foreign Artistes (PUSPAL) included a ban on “kissing, kissing a member of the audience or carrying out such actions among themselves.”

The band, who were paid $350,000 to perform, agreed to abide by the rules in order to take part in the festival.

The lawsuit accuses Healy of drinking alcohol, acting “in a drunken way,” smoking cigarettes “appear[ing] to vomit on the stage and/or grunt and spit excessively including towards the audience,” delivering a “profanity-laden speech” and deliberatively damaging a video drone hired by the festival organisers.

Following the kiss PUSPAL officers ordered the band to stop their performance.

The day after the performance, the organizers’ license was revoked and the remaining two days of the music festival – which were set to include performances from both local and international bands such as the Strokes — were canceled.

[BUtterfield 8 39,381]

Welp lol

[CautiousLurker 16,717]

9 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

grunt and spit excessively

Things gay people are know for 

[TEETHTEETH 1,184]

F around and find out I guess. 

[hieronymus 8,927]

16 minutes ago, CautiousLurker said:

Things gay people are know for 

especially in tumblr fan fiction

[RAMROD 99,786]

Hope that homopy orginizer lost 

[dopega 3,646]

I dislike Matt and his behaviour but protesting against homophobic bs laws is such a boss move 

[Gabe 1,990]

If they lost in court, I would simply not pay. What are they gonna do, ban them from entry from Malaysia? Their loss. 

[Schizophonic 5,758]

2 hours ago, CautiousLurker said:

Things gay people are know for 

well, yeah... but in bed 

[Roughhouse Dandy 6,363]

I'd sue the festival for false advertisement; the vibes aren't very good at all. 

[Guillaume Hamon 5,672]

Is he the one who was accused of doing a nazi salute on stage once?

[moonsago 5,580]

Westerners are really entitled and have a savior complex, doing irresponsible things like this actually end up making things harder for the people they’re ‘trying to help’. It’s good to want to achieve progress in other places as well and we should use our priviledge to do so but we also need to understand that different places in this world are at different stages when it comes to social issues, it’s very self centered to just expect for them to catch up to us as fast as possible and for us to kick in and force it when in reality it’s a complex task that needs a lot of unpacking to understand all the nuances of why things are the way they are there. Mentalities don’t change over night and when you are dealing with strict places pulling a stunt like this does more harm than good. What’s that saying? The road to hell is paved with good intentions? Well kinda like that, the intention becomes irrelevant if the way you go about it feels more like an ego trip of self righteousness. This is not how we achieve progress, it’s not just about forcing it on people but also meeting them where they are at and gently guiding them.