“If you want to invite me here to do a show, you can f*** off.
Healy added that the band considered canceling the show but decided against it to not disappoint the fans. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive,” he said addressing the audience. And that’s not fair on you, because you’re not representative of your government. “Unfortunately, you don’t get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I’m f***ing furious. In an expletive-laden speech during the band’s headline performance on Friday, captured in a video shared widely on social media, Healy said, “I do not see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.”
Homosexual acts are illegal in Malaysia and punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison. The on-stage incident at the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur on Friday night prompted the country’s Ministry of Communications to cancel the rest of the three-day event.
A music festival in Malaysia has been canceled after the lead singer of British band The 1975 Matty Healy slammed the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws and kissed a bandmate on stage.
