Again we have the UK to thank for stopping Nazis.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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It's nice to see the wicked get punished every now and then. It gives me some hope.
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?
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.
I suggest you do that
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.)
I'm not there for them. Its why I don't want to know about them at all.
They couldn’t just get a new headline act?
The sheer fact he was the “headline” to began with was sad.
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
Members of the isreali government makes sense. I don’t think that’s the gotcha you may be thinking.
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.
Nah they were just afraid of the riots.
It's likely that most acts decent enough to headline are already fully booked for the summer.
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.
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.
Was the Wireless Festival a bit shit, or something?
great news!
The only reason they rejected him is not because of who he is but because people promised to create chaos and demonstrations
Hahahahahaha
Britain won’t rest until the only entertainment left is morris dancing and reruns of Fawlty Towers
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?
Bertie and Reginald but none of the rest of P G Wodehouse? Consider my monocle popped.
Did you not spot Blandings (which I prefer to J&W) in there?
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
I mean, all of that would make for a heck of a festival.
Better than 95% of entertainment these days and I don't care about morris dancing.
Too bad 🛎️🏏
The year after I left the troupe, st George got knocked out in the sword dance one night. Those dipshits.
As a former Morris dancer, I would absolutely attend a festival where the headliner is a Morris side.
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
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.
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Episode where Kanye disguises himself as a Morrisman to sneak in.