INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 20: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan performs with Soft Play at Sonora Tent during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 20, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)
This year the UK punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have proven to be among the most politically outspoken musical artists in the world, in ways that have led career repercussions. At England’s gargantuan Glastonbury festival in June, the pair led a “Death to the IDF!” chant in protest of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine, leading to a condemnation from Glasto, the band’s removal from some other festival lineups and tour dates, and the revocation of their US visas. Though they shut down the crowd’s “Death to the IDF!” chant at their first show after Glastonbury, they have not backed down on their vocal criticism of Israel. So it is perhaps unsurprising that they’ve also become participants in the Charlie Kirk discourse.
