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US rapper Ice Spice faces fan backlash over ‘disrespectful’ five-minute appearance at Brisbane gig | Brisbane

Fans at the New Year’s Eve Wildlands festival, which cost up to $242 a ticket, were disappointed after the headline act was 25 minutes late for her 30-minute set

US rapper Ice Spice has been criticised for “disrespecting” Australian music fans after playing just two songs at a festival in Brisbane on New Year’s Eve. Ice Spice is one of three headline acts and more than 35 artists for the travelling Wildlands festival who performed at the RNA showgrounds in the heart of the Queensland capital on 31 December, with punters paying up to $242 for the occasion. Mia Sims, a 20-year-old dance teacher from the Gold Coast, said she and many others were already waiting 30 minutes before Ice Spice’s show was scheduled to start to get a good place in the mosh pit, meaning many had been pressed together for almost an hour in total for the brief set.

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