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More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine
Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor Barclays
More than 100 acts have pulled out of the Great Escape music festival in Brighton as part of a Palestine-related campaign against the event sponsor Barclays that has been supported by Massive Attack, Idles and Brian Eno. Massive Attack, Idles and Eno were among dozens of artists who were not booked to play at the Great Escape festival but signed an open letter launched in April calling for it to drop Barclays as a partner. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has previously called for a boycott of the bank because it claims Barclays holds “substantial financial ties” with arms companies supplying weapons to Israel.
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