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The 1975 Sued by Malaysian Festival for $2.4 Million After Matty Healy’s Gay Kiss Controversy

The organizer of Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival is suing Matt Healy and the 1975 after his protest against LGBTQ laws saw the event canceled.

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 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. As Variety reported last summer, Future Sound Asia issued a letter to the band claiming breach of contract within weeks of the furore and demanding $2 million.

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