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Amyl & The Sniffers defend Kneecap and Bob Vylan after Glasto controversy: “If you don’t want politics in music, don’t blame the musician – blame the politicians and journalists”

Amyl & The Sniffers defend Kneecap and Bob Vylan after controversy surrounding their performance at Glastonbury 2025

Kneecap’s Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap perform at Glastonbury 2025. Credit: Andy Ford for NME Taking to Instagram this morning, the band wrote: “The British media in a frenzy about Bob Vylan and Kneecap but artists all weekend at Glastonbury from pop to rock to rap to punk to DJs spoke up onstage and there were tons of flags on every streamed set. “Trying to make it look like just a couple of isolated incidents and a couple of ‘bad bands’ so it appears the public isn’t as anti-genocide as it is, and trying to make it look like Bob and Kneecap are one-offs, instead of that the status quo has shifted majorly and that people are concerned and desperate for our governments to listen,” they continued.

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