Download Festival Bands Bail on Event Amid Controversy

i applaud all those bands!!!! well done, dont be bullied by fools!

Oh dear the season of mass pointless virtue signalling is upon us.

When Jews defend themselves it's always been very bad…. to nazis.

Pretty much zero comments supporting the bands. These bands are a bunch of clowns no one paid to see anyway… boo hoo… the B stages will never recover 😂🤡🤡

All of you saying "keep politics out of music" – you aren't really aware of music history, are you? Especially the hardcore scene? Which most of the bands in question are? 😂

Folks gotta stop making everyfucking thing political.

Who actually gives a fuck.

I've just opened a new bank account, guess who with 😂

I got 2 minutes in and I can’t watch anymore because he can’t say Barclays properly

I was at Download, It was still great fun in the mud. Good riddance to those dumb activist bands who virtue signalled, pulled out or did not get paid. More fool them! They try and ruin all the fun and they are the ones supporting a terror organisation. We should not give in or let them hijack a major event. Hard working people save and wait all year for Download and for a bit of escapism. No sponsors means no festival.

I've never heard of any of these bands that pulled out. Total non story 😌

You saw how Palestine treated concert goers last time? And you support that??

A pro-palestine group deciding to be destive and violent says more about them than those they protest against.

Me- "people can't be this dumb"
The "activists" – hold my soy latte

Supprting Palestine? Is to Support Hamas! Next terror attack in The USA? After their deed? Are yall gona clap and say they were right?! Did ya clap when 9/11 went down?! And..Some? Deny 10/7 even happened! Or..way downplay it. Nonsense. Any band who wld drop out of a planned FUN event?! Will not be anyone ill support anymore. Though?! Ive NO idea who dropped out. Dont think ya got that far ,man.

they dont care about their fanbase and are holding them as a ransom to get their political ends….. these bands havent given alternatives for their fans to see them just "we wont play for our fans at your event if you dont do as we want……. its childish….. do as I want or Ill throw a tantrum and ruin the days of people that care about us and made us who we are……. Ps Id love to see what shows they do for other events financed by other groups that do things worse…….

If I was Barclays I would sponsor all of the evens so the bands can't make money lol

1. If you resort to criminal behavior for your protest, you are the problem.
2. If someone breaks into your house and murders your children, I guess we just let them go free, forever?
3. When you plug in your EV to recharge it, where do you think that power comes from?

Whilst I don’t condone the horrific acts that have been carried out in Gaza since last October, part of me wonders whether those protesting would put the same amount of effort into protesting against the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims by the Chinese Government?

In addition to the arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in state-sponsored camps, government policies have included forced labor, suppression of Uyghur religious practices, political indoctrination, forced sterilization, forced contraception, and forced abortion. Experts estimate that, since 2017, some sixteen thousand mosques have been razed or damaged, and hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools. Chinese government statistics reported that from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%. In the same period, the birth rate of the whole country decreased by 9.69%.

Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide. Birth rates in Xinjiang fell a further 24% in 2019, compared to a nationwide decrease of 4.2%.

These actions have been described as the forced assimilation of Xinjiang, or as an ethnocide or cultural genocide, or as genocide. Those accusing China of genocide point to intentional acts committed by the Chinese government that they say run afoul of Article II of the Genocide Convention, which prohibits "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part," a "racial or religious group" including "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" and "measures intended to prevent births within the group".

Do the lives of Uyghurs matter less than those in Palestine; or is it a case that the narrative fits?

Barclays complaining about their sites being vandalised, why? I thought they'd be over joyed to close more branches as they've done themselves already

So all of these bands have played shows sponsored by countless evil corporations over the years, but this one is where they draw the line? 😂😂😂😂

To be honest, it just sounds like people being woke as usual. Look at your own countries and all the things they have done .committed genocide in foreign lands. Yet, how come no one stands in protest to that .