The ball joint of the northern hip-hop trio is well known for criticizing Israel's attacks against Gaza during its live sets. But the group indicates that a few moments pointed out of its two coachella sets were cut off from the official livestream of the festival, and wonders if its messages played a role.
The group's performance during the second weekend of the festival presented text reading projections “Israel commits a genocide against the Palestinian people. He is able to the United States government that stops and finances Israel despite their war crimes. F— Israel without Palestine. “
The group declared on social networks that these messages were supposed to have appeared during their set on weekends 1, but “our messaging on the genocide supported by the United States in Gaza has never appeared on screens either”.
The Goldenvoice representatives, the promoter of the festival, did not immediately return a request for comments.
During its first weekend, the group would have led a noisy song celebrating the 2013 death of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, according to them, was also cut off from live delivery.
No set of Coachella's sound tent – the inner place reserved for punk -inspired acts which made the early Goldenvoice reputation – were filmed for live broadcast during the second weekend. There, the group would have declared on stage that “the Irish are not so persecuted under the British, but we have never been bombed under the F-Nulle sky where to go.”
“Unfealized messages in Coachella”, tThe group wrote After her set on weekends 2, publishing images of his projections.
The ball joint was far from being alone in criticizing Israel's attacks against Gaza during Coachella. The headliners Green Day modified the words of “Jesus of the suburbs” to sing, “Runnin 'far from pain, like the children of Palestine”. Other acts such as the blonde red and Bob Vylan displayed Palestinian flags during their sets.
Director of Music and Executive Scooter Braun, who organized a museum exhibition on the massacre of the Nova festival in Israel, said on Instagram This founder of Coachella, Paul Tollett, “is a good man and was a frank defender on behalf of the survivors of the Nova Music Festival”.
