{"id":41060,"date":"2025-11-12T03:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-interviewed-by-police-after-bob-vylan-glastonbury-set\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:24:51","slug":"man-interviewed-by-police-after-bob-vylan-glastonbury-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-interviewed-by-police-after-bob-vylan-glastonbury-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Man interviewed by police after Bob Vylan Glastonbury set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Avon and Somerset Police said the man had voluntarily attended an interview with officers on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">During the band&#8217;s set on the West Holts Stage, the crowd were encouraged to chant &#8220;death, death to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force added: &#8220;The matter has been recorded as a public order incident while we continue to investigate and consider all relevant legislation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police said they had received legal advice about the investigation in October from the Crown Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force said voluntary interviews were &#8220;commonly used in investigations where an individual agrees to attend and an arrest is not considered necessary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It added: &#8220;Attendees are interviewed under caution and have the same legal rights as anybody who is arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Following their Glastonbury appearance, the band were dropped from a number of festivals and performances including Radar festival, a show at a German music venue and a US tour after their visas were revoked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The group also recently postponed two UK gigs, including a show in Manchester, following calls by Jewish leaders and MPs for it to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Despite the criticism, the band have also seen support from fans, with their album Humble As The Sun re-entering the charts over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Tuesday night, the Met Police imposed Public Order Act conditions to prevent &#8220;serious disruption and serious disorder&#8221; ahead of a Bob Vylan concert at the O2 Forum Kentish Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force later said five arrests were made during two separate protests outside the north London venue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In September, the BBC&#8217;s complaints unit ruled a broadcast of the band&#8217;s set <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1kwpk2yjv7o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">broke editorial guidelines in relation to harm and offence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The controversy was one of several high-profile scandals the BBC faced over the summer, but director general Tim Davie remained in post despite calls for him to step down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">However, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cd9kqz1yyxkt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">Davie resigned on Sunday<\/a> following the publication of damaging memo that raised concerns about some editorial decisions within the corporation, including the way Panorama edited a speech by President Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clykrn6g2pzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avon and Somerset Police said the man had voluntarily attended an interview with officers on Monday. During the band&#8217;s set on the West Holts Stage, the crowd were encouraged to chant &#8220;death, death to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]&#8221;. The force added: &#8220;The matter has been recorded as a public order incident while we continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[11533,10433,12623,417,599,86,12624],"class_list":["post-41060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-bob","tag-glastonbury","tag-interviewed","tag-man","tag-police","tag-set","tag-vylan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41062,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41060\/revisions\/41062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}