Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxk3kxjr0o

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Cytobit@piefed.social · 75 pts · 134d (12 replies)

It's nice to see the wicked get punished every now and then. It gives me some hope.

jimmy90@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d (1 reply)

even if he's diverse, he could be repairing the damage he puked onto the planet

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 131d

He’s not diverse - he’s a dickhead.

RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · -52 pts · 134d (9 replies)

Being banned from the UK is like the opposite of a punishment.

brewery@feddit.uk · 39 pts · 133d (5 replies)

What are you on about? Don't believe the news and social media posts. It is fine here. It's not perfect but it's not a punishment to come here

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d

Yeah! Couldn't be any worse than Ohio

RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 133d (3 replies)

It's full of British people.

echodot@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 133d (1 reply)

No they're all in benidorm so it's fine.

RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · -4 pts · 133d

The Infection Spreads.

Sassington@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 133d
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Hey they have great Indian food. Almost as good as going to India

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d

Dude it's not like the UK is statesia what are you on

spagbolioli@feddit.uk · -2 pts · 133d

no lardy cake left for you then fatso

Enjolras@piefed.europe.pub · 34 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Again we have the UK to thank for stopping Nazis.

mbp@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 132d

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 134d (4 replies)

Well, well, if it isn't the consequences of his terrible choices.

Doesn't matter tho. He still has plenty of fans willing to fork over hundreds of dollars to "separate the art from the artist." Maybe people should stop doing that?

MehBlah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 134d (3 replies)

When you stop separating the art from the artist you have to blacklist a lot of them. Many of them are incomplete human beings with terrible personality traits.

LSNLDN@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 133d (2 replies)

I suggest you do that

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d

Since we're on Lemmy, anyone who selects artists by the adherence to their own morals will be left with about three names total.

(Which is not to say that I defend West, of course: he can be shot for all I care, because I don't give a shit about rappers, almost all of them suck.)

MehBlah@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 133d

I'm not there for them. Its why I don't want to know about them at all.

eleijeep@piefed.social · 20 pts · 134d (11 replies)

They couldn’t just get a new headline act?

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 133d (4 replies)

The sheer fact he was the “headline” to began with was sad.

spagbolioli@feddit.uk · -6 pts · 133d (3 replies)

still a huge audience out there for him, the uk has prevented all types of people from entering the country in the past including jews including members of the israeli government https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xgk1ek19lo

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 133d (2 replies)

Members of the isreali government makes sense. I don’t think that’s the gotcha you may be thinking.

spagbolioli@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 132d (1 reply)

Members of the isreali government makes sense

indeed, the uk regularly bans people it doesn't like entering the country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_banned_from_entering_the_United_Kingdom

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 132d

Yup. I’d say they fall under “hate promoters”, I mean they’re trying to genocide an entire population. Leave the Palestinians alone and let them have their land. Not to mention now they’re attacking Syria.

blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 133d (2 replies)

It's likely that most acts decent enough to headline are already fully booked for the summer.

addie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some 'up and coming' band to fill the very early slot that's left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who's free and who's got other bookings.

Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can't find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 132d

Glastonbury is about as non-standard as it gets.

towerful@programming.dev · 5 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Well the point is that he should never have been the headline to start with.
And now all the sponsors have pulled out, because they don't want to be associated with a festival that is promoting a person like Kanye.

Evotech@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 133d

Nah they were just afraid of the riots.

thelardboy@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 133d

I imagine there's a clause in the contract that he gets paid in full if they cancel him, but only a small %age if they cancel the whole thing.

Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 17 pts · 134d

great news!

Avicenna@programming.dev · 9 pts · 132d

I wish they did the same for Nigel Farage

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 133d

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vl1pn70ddo

Wow what a monumental shit head.

WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 4 pts · 133d

Was the Wireless Festival a bit shit, or something?

Evotech@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d

The only reason they rejected him is not because of who he is but because people promised to create chaos and demonstrations

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 134d

Hahahahahaha

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -5 pts · 134d (21 replies)

Britain won’t rest until the only entertainment left is morris dancing and reruns of Fawlty Towers

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 133d (11 replies)

Plus the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Monty Python, afternoon drinking, Agatha Christie, Shakespeare, the English language, the games of cricket, football, rugby, golf, croquet, badminton, tennis, and rounders (basically baseball). David Attenborough, The BBC World Service, I'm sorry, I Haven't a Clue, Taskmaster, The Office, afternoon tea, Kipling, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and George Orwell. Oh, and J. K. Rowling if you're prepared to tolerate her shit. Heavy metal, punk, goth, new romantics. Imaginative swearing and football chants. Formal gardens. Constable and Wren, Tolkien, Chaucer, Scott, Bronte, Dahl, and Wodehouse. Blackadder, Black Books, Father Ted (a bit problematic), the King James bible, The Young Ones, The Goons, Mr Bean and Benny Hill, James Bond, Auld Lang Syne. Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Gilbert and Sullivan, the Cornetto Trilogy, Oscar Wilde, John Donne, Gin & Tonic, Dr Who, Sherlock Holmes, Black Mirror, Sapphire and Steel, Queen, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Dua Lipa, The Spice Girls (heh), Jennings and Derbyshire, Just William, Biggles, Jeeves, Wooster, Blandings, Enid Blyton's (a bit racist) Secret Seven and Famous Five, John Wyndham, John Carpenter, Moorcock (Elric and various Eternal Champions), Alice (in/through Wonderland/Looking Glass), CS Lewis (Narnia), Iain Banks, 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Nemesis the Warlock, Commando Comics, V for Vendetta, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the Beano, the Dandy, Viz, Not The Nine O'Clock News, The Fast Show, Would I Lie To You, Eight Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown, the crytic crossword, Brass Eye, The IT Crowd (also a bit problematic), Toast Of London, The Mighty Boosh, Just A Minute, QI, Mock The Week, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

What have you got?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (2 replies)

Bertie and Reginald but none of the rest of P G Wodehouse? Consider my monocle popped.

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Did you not spot Blandings (which I prefer to J&W) in there?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d

it's a long list and i skimmed

LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 132d (1 reply)

John Carpenter?
Also like all of those people are dead.

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 131d

John Carpenter?

Ah, no, indeed. I meant John Christopher. Thanks for the spot!

Also like all of those people are dead.

A lot of them are also fictional. Besides, death isn't the handicap it used to be. Oh, Red Dwarf! Plus Blake's Seven, Black Mirror, Inside Number 9, The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Peep Show, Spaced, The Detectorists, The Thick of It, Happy Valley, Broadchurch, Luther.

Peaky Blinders. Derry Girls.

And Slow Horses, how could I have forgotten Slow Horses?

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 133d (5 replies)

Thank you :) I mean you have a point, The Beatles would probably be able to draw a larger crowd than Ye, if you could swing it

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 133d (4 replies)

I mean, all of that would make for a heck of a festival.

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 133d (3 replies)

Gotcha buddy, you’re down for drunk nazis and transphobes, as long as they’re white =b

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 132d (1 reply)

If that’s what attracts you from that list, that’s what attracts you, I guess.

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 130d

I think you need your eyes checked blud, I didn’t make the list =b

Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d

I think it has more to do with them being domestic rather than international drunk Nazis and trasphobes.

cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 133d (2 replies)

As a former Morris dancer, I would absolutely attend a festival where the headliner is a Morris side.

addie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 133d

Shrewsbury Folk Festival might be for you? Great bands, tremendous beers and ciders, splendid vibe, and Morris dancing throughout the day. A morning of dancing is just the thing to let your hangover ease off to do it all again.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d

So I wasn't thinking about it until now, but is there a good Morris supply store? Like, I kind of want to get my own bells all of a sudden.

I might be able to do abbots bromley right now but I can dream

MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 9 pts · 133d (3 replies)

Better than 95% of entertainment these days and I don't care about morris dancing.

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Too bad 🛎️🏏

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d

The year after I left the troupe, st George got knocked out in the sword dance one night. Those dipshits.

jimmy90@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d

hmm john cleese is a wanker these days. it's not quite full kevin spacey, michael jackson but...

ObscureOtter@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 134d

🇬🇧 🫡

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 133d

Episode where Kanye disguises himself as a Morrisman to sneak in.

new_world_odor@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 133d (2 replies)

Honestly, I still have hope for him eventually. People are complicated. But I'm ignoring him for a few years. Don't give a shit what his new music sounds like, or anything he has to say. He dropped his apology, now's the time to sit in the background and show the world he means what he says. Words are useless, have to be backed up by actions now. And I'm tired of hearing about his acions. He needs to learn to shut the fuck up for a while.

Blackout@fedia.io · 14 pts · 133d

I'm pretty sure he was warned of the consequences of going Nazi when he did it. Going to take more than words from a publicist to regain trust.

then_three_more@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 133d

Actions have consequences, the more rich people that are forced to learn that the better.