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Wednesday, July 02, 2025 6:23:31 AM
Hard to say. Trump did immediately call for a 60 day cease fire.
Vylan seems to come by it honestly:
Robinson-Foster [Vylan] began his artistic career as a teenager, as a performance poet and grime artist sometimes called Nee-Hi. He was involved in local community outreach projects, mentoring young people in Ipswich and was invited to perform at the Black and Asian Police Association Conference in 2005. He began Bob Vylan after meeting his bandmate in a London bar in 2017 (neither are Bob Dylan fans; they just thought the name was funny).
The duo make politically charged music that combines elements of punk, grime, reggae and indie. Much of it is of a sunny, rebellious disposition, with a strong anti-establishment thrust. On 2022’s Take That, for example, Robinson-Foster raps “give Churchill’s statue the rope and see if it floats … Yeah, let the bitch drown, got the gammons all feeling sick now, wipe my backside with a St George’s flag.”
The group have tackled a number of progressive topics in their music, including food poverty, sexism, exploitative landlords and institutional racism.
But the movement for Palestinian freedom has always been central to their project. Robinson-Foster told the Guardian in 2024 he attended his first pro-Palestine protest at the age of 15 and remembers a “feeling of people coming together and using their voice”. He has criticized other bands associated with the left for not being more outspoken on Palestine.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/02/bob-vylan-glastonbury-band
Vylan seems to come by it honestly:
Robinson-Foster [Vylan] began his artistic career as a teenager, as a performance poet and grime artist sometimes called Nee-Hi. He was involved in local community outreach projects, mentoring young people in Ipswich and was invited to perform at the Black and Asian Police Association Conference in 2005. He began Bob Vylan after meeting his bandmate in a London bar in 2017 (neither are Bob Dylan fans; they just thought the name was funny).
The duo make politically charged music that combines elements of punk, grime, reggae and indie. Much of it is of a sunny, rebellious disposition, with a strong anti-establishment thrust. On 2022’s Take That, for example, Robinson-Foster raps “give Churchill’s statue the rope and see if it floats … Yeah, let the bitch drown, got the gammons all feeling sick now, wipe my backside with a St George’s flag.”
The group have tackled a number of progressive topics in their music, including food poverty, sexism, exploitative landlords and institutional racism.
But the movement for Palestinian freedom has always been central to their project. Robinson-Foster told the Guardian in 2024 he attended his first pro-Palestine protest at the age of 15 and remembers a “feeling of people coming together and using their voice”. He has criticized other bands associated with the left for not being more outspoken on Palestine.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/02/bob-vylan-glastonbury-band
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