From the Daily Mail
RABBLE-rousing punk band Bob Vylan are being investigated by police for another anti-Israel outburst onstage weeks before the Glastonbury Festival, the Mail can reveal.
Detectives are probing video footage of a performance the controversial band gave at Alexandra Palace in London in May.
In the clip, Bob Vylan frontman, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, can be heard yelling: ‘Death to every single IDF soldier out there as an agent of terror for Israel. Death to the IDF’.
It turns out Bob Vylan has a rich back catalogue.
“Death to every single IDF soldier out there as an agent of terror for Israel! Death to the IDF!”
They’re “the most violent boy band in the United Kingdom”, they later boasted.
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The comments – which were made on May 28 2025 at Alexandra Palace shortly before a performance of the band’s song Hunger Games – echo the widely-condemned remarks made on the West Holts stage.
Last night a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told the Daily Mail: ‘Officers are investigating comments allegedly made during a concert at Alexandra Palace earlier this year. The decision to investigate follows the emergence of footage which appears to have been filmed at the venue on 28 May 2025′.
Responding to the new footage, former spokesman for Gordon Brown and ex Labour MP John Woodcock, also known as Lord Walney, said: ‘The fact that this was not the first time Bob Vylan made that hateful death chant makes the BBC’s Glasto disaster even more serious. Most of the public might not have heard of the group but it’s just not credible that none of the hundreds of BBC Staff at the festival were unaware. If director-general Tim Davie doesn’t get a personal grip on the corporation’s antisemitism crisis he is going to have to go.’
A CST spokesperson added: ‘This clip underlines that when Bob Vylan talks about killing the IDF, they are not talking about ending an institution but are calling for the death of individual human beings. If this is what they say at all their recent gigs then there is even less excuse for failing to foresee they would do something similar at the Glastonbury Festival.’
From the London Evenng Standard
Punk rap duo Bob Vylan will no longer play at a festival in Manchester this weekend after a controversial appearance at Glastonbury.
The group were due to headline the Saturday slot at Radar festival but no longer appear in the line-up.
A statement posted on Radar festival’s Instagram account said: “Bob Vylan will not be appearing at Radar festival this weekend.”
It has since updated its website, changing the Saturday slot to “Headliner TBA” (to be announced).
In response, the group shared the festival’s statement on their Instagram story, adding the caption: “Silence is not an option. We will be fine, the people of Palestine are hurting. Manchester we will be back.”
They have also been pulled from their upcoming performance at a German music venue.
Bob Vylan are expected to perform at the Boardmasters surfing and music festival in Newquay, Cornwall, in August
