Again we have the UK to thank for stopping Nazis.
Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK
Submitted 2 months ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxk3kxjr0o
Comments
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of his terrible choices.
Doesn’t matter tho. He still has plenty of fans willing to fork over hundreds of dollars to “separate the art from the artist.” Maybe people should stop doing that?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When you stop separating the art from the artist you have to blacklist a lot of them. Many of them are incomplete human beings with terrible personality traits.
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 months ago
They couldn’t just get a new headline act?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The sheer fact he was the “headline” to began with was sad.
spagbolioli@feddit.uk 2 months ago
still a huge audience out there for him, the uk has prevented all types of people from entering the country in the past including jews including members of the israeli government www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xgk1ek19lo
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s likely that most acts decent enough to headline are already fully booked for the summer.
addie@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.
Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.
towerful@programming.dev 2 months ago
Well the point is that he should never have been the headline to start with.
And now all the sponsors have pulled out, because they don’t want to be associated with a festival that is promoting a person like Kanye.Evotech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah they were just afraid of the riots.
thelardboy@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I imagine there’s a clause in the contract that he gets paid in full if they cancel him, but only a small %age if they cancel the whole thing.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Britain won’t rest until the only entertainment left is morris dancing and reruns of Fawlty Towers
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Plus the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Monty Python, afternoon drinking, Agatha Christie, Shakespeare, the English language, the games of cricket, football, rugby, golf, croquet, badminton, tennis, and rounders (basically baseball). David Attenborough, The BBC World Service, I’m sorry, I Haven’t a Clue, Taskmaster, The Office, afternoon tea, Kipling, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and George Orwell. Oh, and J. K. Rowling if you’re prepared to tolerate her shit. Heavy metal. Formal gardens. Constable and Wren, Tolkien, Chaucer, Scott, Bronte, Dahl, and Wodehouse. Blackadder, Black Books, Father Ted (a bit problematic), the King James bible, The Young Ones, The Goons, Mr Bean and Benny Hill, James Bond, Auld Lang Syne. Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Gilbert and Sullivan, the Cornetto Trilogy, Oscar Wilde, John Donne, Gin & Tonic, Dr Who, Sherlock Holmes, Black Mirror, Sapphire and Steel, Queen, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Dua Lipa, The Spice Girls (heh), Jennings and Derbyshire, Just William, Biggles, Jeeves, Wooster, Blandings, Enid Blyton’s (a bit racist) Secret Seven and Famous Five, John Wyndham, John Carpenter, Moorcock (Elric and various Eternal Champions), Alice (in/through Wonderland/Looking Glass), CS Lewis (Narnia), Iain Banks, 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Nemesis the Warlock, Commando Comics, V for Vendetta, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the Beano, the Dandy, Viz, Not The Nine O’Clock News, The Fast Show, Would I Lie To You, Eight Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown, the crytic crossword, Brass Eye, The IT Crowd (also a bit problematic), Toast Of London, The Mighty Boosh, Just A Minute, QI, Mock The Week, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
What have you got?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bertie and Reginald but none of the rest of P G Wodehouse? Consider my monocle popped.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Thank you :) I mean you have a point, The Beatles would probably be able to draw a larger crowd than Ye, if you could swing it
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
John Carpenter?
Also like all of those people are dead.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Better than 95% of entertainment these days and I don’t care about morris dancing.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hmm john cleese is a wanker these days. it’s not quite full kevin spacey, michael jackson but…
cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
As a former Morris dancer, I would absolutely attend a festival where the headliner is a Morris side.
addie@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Shrewsbury Folk Festival might be for you? Great bands, tremendous beers and ciders, splendid vibe, and Morris dancing throughout the day. A morning of dancing is just the thing to let your hangover ease off to do it all again.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So I wasn’t thinking about it until now, but is there a good Morris supply store? Like, I kind of want to get my own bells all of a sudden.
ObscureOtter@piefed.ca 2 months ago
🇬🇧 🫡
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vl1pn70ddo
Wow what a monumental shit head.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 months ago
I wish they did the same for Nigel Farage
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The only reason they rejected him is not because of who he is but because people promised to create chaos and demonstrations
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 months ago
Was the Wireless Festival a bit shit, or something?
new_world_odor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, I still have hope for him eventually. People are complicated. But I’m ignoring him for a few years. Don’t give a shit what his new music sounds like, or anything he has to say. He dropped his apology, now’s the time to sit in the background and show the world he means what he says. Words are useless, have to be backed up by actions now. And I’m tired of hearing about his acions. He needs to learn to shut the fuck up for a while.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actions have consequences, the more rich people that are forced to learn that the better.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Hahahahahaha
Cytobit@piefed.social 2 months ago
It’s nice to see the wicked get punished every now and then. It gives me some hope.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Being banned from the UK is like the opposite of a punishment.
brewery@feddit.uk 2 months ago
What are you on about? Don’t believe the news and social media posts. It is fine here. It’s not perfect but it’s not a punishment to come here
spagbolioli@feddit.uk 2 months ago
no lardy cake left for you then fatso
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey they have great Indian food. Almost as good as going to India
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude it’s not like the UK is statesia what are you on
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
even if he’s diverse, he could be repairing the damage he puked onto the planet