Avon and Somerset Police are scrutinising footage from punk pair Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury Competition gig to find out whether or not any offences have occurred. The duo, composed of Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan, incited festival-goers on the West Holts Stage with a chant of “dying, dying to the IDF” throughout their set previous to Irish rap group Kneecap. However who precisely are Bob Vylan?
Rising from Ipswich in 2017, each band members of Bob Vylan fiercely guard their actual identities for privateness causes. Mixing grime, punk, and arduous rock, the band has produced 4 albums up to now: ‘Dread’ in 2019, ‘We Stay Right here’ in 2020, the award-winning ‘Bob Vylan Presents The Value Of Life’ in 2022, and their newest providing ‘Humble because the Solar’ in 2024.
They grabbed the title for finest different music act on the Mobo Awards in 2022, and Kerrang honoured them with the most effective album accolade that very same 12 months for ‘Bob Vylan Presents The Value Of Life’.
Their collaborations embody tasks with Amyl And The Sniffers’ frontwoman Amy Taylor, Gentle Play guitarist Laurie Vincent, and rock outfit Child Kapichi.
A Bob Vylan efficiency is a high-octane mixture of sampled guitar rhythms paired with dwell drums by Bobbie. The viewers energetically moshes, all the time below the watchful eye of the band to advertise security.
Attacking points like racism, homophobia, poisonous masculinity, and ‘right-wing politics’ by way of their lyrics, they goal to startle and have interaction followers. Their single ‘Fairly Songs’ regularly options an introduction by Bobby, proclaiming, “violence is the one language that some individuals perceive”.
Of their heyday, Bobby was recognized for his brash antics, resembling swinging a baseball bat in direction of the viewers and stirring up bother by donning the soccer strip of the rival staff wherever they performed.
At their efficiency at Glastonbury, Bobby made it a household affair by bringing his daughter on stage to hitch him in belting out Dream Greater.
Have they induced a stir earlier than? Actually. Again in 2021, an incident involving Bobby at a gig made headlines within the Norwich Night Information.
Reportedly, a fan felt Bobby’s wrath when he reacted to being hit by ice whereas on stage in an Ipswich City shirt, ensuing within the present pausing for his outburst.
Throughout that very same efficiency, Bobby reportedly brandished a baseball bat, resulting in protection below the headline “the frost and the fury”.
Norwich native Sarah Corbett who was caught up within the incident spoke to the paper: “We have been all having enjoyable on the dance ground. I might put an ice dice down my good friend’s high for fun.”
She defined the ice-cube mishap: “One other woman then threw it at her good friend, but it surely missed and landed at his toes.”
Describing what adopted, she mentioned: “At that time he stopped the gig and demanded to know who had thrown it.”
Taking accountability to spare the opposite woman, Sarah recounted: “Seeing the woman’s face drop, I made a decision to take the flak and introduced it was me. He began abusing me by way of the microphone.”
The state of affairs escalated additional based on Sarah: “As I attempted to go away, one in every of his followers tried to seize me by the throat.”
A spokesperson for the band firmly denied any improprieties to the newspaper following the incident, asserting that they “utterly refute any wrongdoing” and stating Bobby “didn’t need to interact”.
