Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Radar initially confirmed Bob Vylan’s removal with a brief statement on July 2: “Bob Vylan will not be appearing at RADAR Festival this weekend.” But in a new interview on the Two Promoters One Pod podcast, organizer Catherine Jackson-Smith shared that the festival did not want to cancel the group’s headline set.</p><p>“It was categorically one of the most horrendous professional discussions I’ve ever had,” she said. “I cannot express clearly enough that I wanted Bob Vylan to perform at our festival. But this was not our decision.”</p><p>According to Jackson-Smith, Radar was caught between behind-the-scenes conversations involving the venue, its co-owners AMG and Live Nation, and local authorities. The decision to drop Bob Vylan was presented as an ultimatum: either cancel the band’s appearance or risk losing the entire Saturday program.</p><p>“There was not an option for Bob Vylan to step on stage on Saturday; that became apparent at the beginning of the week,” Jackson-Smith explained. “If we continued with Bob Vylan as our headliner, we wouldn’t have the festival happening on Saturday.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/radar-festival-respond-bob-vylan-1236014216/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">billboard.com/music/music-news</span><span class="invisible">/radar-festival-respond-bob-vylan-1236014216/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CancelCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancelCulture</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AMG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AMG</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LiveNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiveNation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manchester</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BobVylan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BobVylan</span></a></p>