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Malaysian Festival Demands the 1975 Pay $2.7 Million After Gay Kiss Controversy

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Thania Garcia The organizer of Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival is seeking over $2 million in damages from the 1975 after frontman Matty Healy’s on-stage protest against the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws resulted in authorities canceling the event.

The shutdown resulted in numerous bands and small businesses on the bill — including local artists and global acts such as the Strokes — kicked to the curb.

A legal counsel for Future Sound Asia, the agency behind Good Vibes Festival, issued a letter addressing a “breach of contract” on behalf of the 1975 that requests the band provide compensation for the agency’s losses after the cancellation of the annual, three-day event.

According to the letter issued Aug. 8, the band has a limited number of days to present compensation. A representative for the band declined Variety‘s request for comment. “They entered into a binding contract with Future Sound Asia to perform and the position of Future Sound Asia, among others, is that this contractual obligation was breached,” writes Future Sound Asia attorney David Matthew in a statement provided to Variety. “Further, Mr.

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