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Bands boycott festival after group were censored over Palestine flag
['Pa News Agency']
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The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Portsmouth music festival following Friday’s incident.
The statement said: “We are outraged by the decision made to silence The Mary Wallopers yesterday at Victorious.
As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today.
“Our video clearly shows a Victorious crew member coming on stage, interfering with our show, removing the flag from the stage and then the sound being cut following a chant of ‘Free Palestine,'” they said.
“We accept that, although mics remained live for longer, sound for The Mary Wallopers’ audience was cut as described in the band’s video and that comments after that were not audible to the public.
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