the 1975

i completely agree about this incident but lol are we really doing this shit again ("who's given the Nazi salute and admitted to watching degrading, sexist, racist, porn")

i don't care if he wasn't sincere about that shit. he isn't sincere about fucking anything, including the gay people he claims to be speaking up for

Thank you, Roz

it's also been disheartening btw to see that even though I included the POV of a local queer activist in my story, some US outlets that picked it up or parts of it chose to cut out the quote entirely (ahem the NYT, most egregiously). Sorry if it's inconvenient to recognise that speaking up doesn't always have the impact intended, and can sometimes cause more harm than good.

i don't think this stunt was insincere, matty being well-meaning but a gigantic dumbass with no understanding of context or consequences is a running theme. he absolutely should have known better and it is particularly egregious given that he pulled a similar stunt a few years ago in dubai and then later publicly reflected that it was a bad idea, despite it not going as obviously badly as it did this time.

sorry to hear that the american press are being shitty in covering it too

xpost well that, plus the 1975 has played in Malaysia before at the exact same festival a few years ago - they and their management were perfectly aware of the performance rules here. So even though matty had been acting out in public recently, the organisers didn't think twice about inviting them again because it hadn't been a problem the first time. 

anyway, they've canceled their next two shows: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-band-1975-cancels-indonesia-taiwan-shows-after-malaysia-lgbt-controversy-2023-07-23/

While being shitty often seems to be the NYTimes house policy, they did keep the paragraph about LGBT activists accusing Healey of “performative activism” and saying “his action was likely to expose the community to more stigma and discrimination”—so I think the point is still made.

Anyway, as Healey is British, I was curious how the BBC covered it. They quote a festival director talking about how the stunt hurts “the fans(…), the festival organisers and, you know, I think the industry as a whole”—but unfortunately do not touch on the larger point that Roz’s reporting conveys.

(Whoops—apologies to Healy for misspelling his name in my post, though he seems like a heel however you spell it.)

ok sorry

<3 roz

#Onethread?

https://www.stereogum.com/2231653/matty-healy-gets-stoned-with-caveh-zahedi-and-learns-who-the-mountain-goats-are/news/

this feels ominous

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/jack-antonoff-signs-management-jamie-oborne-dirty-hit-records-universal-publishing-1235701107/

Iirc Matty Healy no longer has a corporate role at Dirty Hit, right?

More ominous to me is the band's apparent desire to tour themselves into the ground. They played here and Milwaukee in December 2022, then just a few weeks ago at Lollapalooza, then coming back to Milwaukee and Chicago area in October. That's a lot behind one album.

they tour a ridiculous amount but if anything they've been relatively restrained this year with only ~110 shows (including the rest of this year's schedule) compared to the 204 shows they played in 2014 for example

that’s how you pay the bills these days idk

xxp I thought the same thing. Friend who missed the first show asked if I wanted to go to this one. It's at Allstate, which I'd guess is, what...twice as big as Aragon? I was surprised.

They sold out the United Center in 2018 or whenever, and that's bigger than Allstate.

I’ve been waiting for “Sad Mile,” from Mousetrap, to be discovered for a soundtrack or something…

Wrong thread sorry

xxp Ah, I had no idea. Interesting.

every the 1975 song pic.twitter.com/vgkVw6NbXB

— jillkrajewski.bsky.social (@JillKrajewski) September 17, 2023

No lies told

That is excellent

lmao

you don’t hear from me at all https://t.co/jKTwO0ehcX

— Lucy Dacus (@lucydacus) September 21, 2023

that isn't quite the epic clapback twitter is making it. It's just like an affirmation of Healy's punchline.

it was enough for him to deactivate his account though lol

fully expecting the next album to be the worst thing ever if he hasn't gotten over this idiot edgelord phase

he's deactivated and reactivated a million times tbf

The Ben Dreyfuss of pop.

apparently taking an indefinite hiatus from touring after this latest tour but Matty says a lot of shit so I'm taking it with a grain of salt

Doesn't every band take an indefinite hiatus between tours?

Next album: An Indefinite Hiatus from Touring.

A Momentary Lapse of Touring.

A Brief Deletion of Social Media Accounts

Way back when my daughter bought a couple of tickets to see the Milwaukee show tomorrow. She can't go, so gave the tickets to me. I don't feel like driving up there, and people are selling tickets for the single digits (maybe in part because they subsequently added a Chicago show), so I can't get rid of these tickets, either. Oh well.

I'd normally be game but saw them the last time they came through. Hope you can find some way to use them.

As a lesson to my daughter not to just spend money on things she won't use.

this audio sucks but i love them playing "so far (it's alright)" ... a song that has a very special place in my heart for briefly imagining a collaboration between them & dj koze

So Far (It's Alright) Live in Milwaukee#The1975 pic.twitter.com/bsheSp3kWF

— The 1975 (@the1975) November 2, 2023

looking thru their setlist.fm stats & they've never played "the birthday party" on american soil. that doesn't sit right with me

they put out the MSG live show from earlier this year as an album on streaming

they released more tickets for their previously sold-out show here and ngl I was tempted to go but I really shouldn't spend three digits on a show that's more or less the same show they played less than a year ago

the best band

getting re-obsessed with “102” lately

and their last album is actually a classic I’m afraid to tell the haters. the lads had done it again and it was we who were ignorant

“Oh Caroline” is a huge jam

omg taylor swift offered them an opening spot on her tour but they declined I DON'T THINK I COULD EVEN HAVE PHYSICALLY HANDLED THAT BUT OMG IMAGINE

― uberweiss, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:52 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

!!

What is “102”?

a brief inquiry's japanese bonus track. just an acoustic ballad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrqm8F7TgM

matty wrote this when he was 15!