The 1975 was forced to cancel a pair of shows after frontman Matty Healy kissed a male bandmate onstage during a set in notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ Malaysia.
The 1975 said on Sunday that they had canceled shows in Taiwan and Indonesia following a confrontation with the Malaysian government over its stance on the LGBTQ+ community. The British band had been scheduled to perform at Jakarta’s We the Fest on Sunday and the Taipei Music Center on Tuesday, but announced in a brief statement that those gigs had been called off. “Unfortunately, due to current circumstances, it is impossible to proceed with the scheduled shows,” the statement said.
The move comes in the wake of a Friday set at Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival where frontman Matty Healy kissed a male bandmate onstage after criticizing the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws, saying he was “fucking furious.” The government slammed Healy’s actions as “very rude” and banned the pop group from performing in Malaysia.
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