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BBC to stop broadcasting 'high risk' performances live after Bob Vylan Glastonbury row

SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 3 – Following Bob Vylan's controversial Glastonbury set, the BBC will no longer livestream performances deemed 'high risk,' affecting seven artists identified before the festival, the broadcaster said.

  • During their live-streamed performance at Glastonbury on June 28, 2025, the punk-rap group Bob Vylan prompted the audience to chant "death, death to the IDF" in Somerset.
  • The BBC had earlier deemed Bob Vylan 'high risk' but allowed their set to be streamed live with real-time mitigations, a decision later called mistaken.
  • Following widespread criticism including from BBC leadership and government officials, the broadcaster apologized and acknowledged errors in handling the broadcast.
  • BBC Director-General Tim Davie emphasized that antisemitism is completely unacceptable at the BBC and pledged to implement stricter editorial guidelines for live music broadcasts.
  • As a result, the BBC announced it will no longer broadcast or live stream any music performances deemed high risk, aiming to prevent similar failures in the future.
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The Bob Vylan duo was left without a number of concerts after they clashed with the Israeli army at Glastonbury.

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Many of these artists who go for these festivals around slogans asking for the death of Israeli soldiers are with Palestine but without ever being in Palestine, Hamas will not tell them.

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