In July 2023, The 1975‘s Matthew Healy kissed his bandmate, bass player Ross MacDonald, during a performance at the Good Vibes festival in Malaysia, a country where homosexuality is a crime and such public acts are against the law. The incident prompted a flurry of outrage from certain progressive circles, who claimed that Healy knowingly endangered Malaysian LGBTQIA+ fans, and that…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
