FIELD DAY FESTIVAL ISSUSE STEETEENT AMID SUSTAINED ARTIST Boycott as Top Acts Drop Out

The London Music Festival Field Day Has ised an updated staffing clarifying its stance on an Israeli investment firm in the aftermath of multiple acts drop out of the line-up

Field Day Festival Has Shared An Updated Statement About Its Ties to An Investment Firm KKRA AFTER MULTIPLE ARTISTS PULLED OUT OF THIS FESTIVAL, CITING ITS HOLDINGS IN ISrael. To date, fifteen artists have with the year-up, including multiple members of the femme music system system Crew, Midland, Spray, Roses Terrenzi and Regulafantasy.

The boycott comes just two weeks after over 200 artists signed an openter calling on the festival to publicly distance itself from kkr. KKR is a Global Investment Firm with Holdings in Israel and is the parent Company of the Superstruct Entertainment, the Promoter of Field Day.

In an updated staff Shared on May 20 – Just Five Days before the event – Field Day made a Hardened Stance Against KKR, Saying Its Initial A Few Days Prior didn’t sufficiently explain its position.

In Its Length New Statement, Field Day Writes: “We were Wood Like to Say, Clearly and Directly, that we stand with the People of Gaza and Support the Peaceful Aims of the Palestinian Civilizations and Everyone Working Tilessly to Give.

FIELD DAY EMPHASED THAT IT IT “FAILED” Artists and Audience Members by not Addressing the Open Letter Earlier. IT RESTATATES THAT SUPPLY WITH SUPERSTRUCT Secured the Festival of Future and That It Had “No KnowLEDGE OR INFLUENCE” IN KKR’S Investment in superstructs but adds a condemnation of the investment firm.

“We are passionately Opposed to KKR’s Unethical Investments in Israel,” Says Field Day, Adding that it Respects the artists that have “taken a stance” and wellcomes the other artists still-up to do the Same.

The open letter from artists that field day is responding to claimed that kkr’s investments make it complicite in genocide and “apartheid regime” and that is now “implicated” and has “an urgent and profound legal and moral obligation to take a Clear standard Kkr’s Complicity ”. The Letter Called on the Festival to “Publicly Distance itself from KKR” and make -up it is.

The Letter was penned by a coalition of djs, LED by femme colctive sisu crew, and received over 230 signatures from artists Including Brian Eno, Jyoty, Ben Ufo, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja. The Letter was published on April 29 but artists began to pull out after there was no public responds from the festival.

More than a week after the letter was published, the members of the Music Collective Sisu Crew Announched It No Longer Be Playing the Festival. The Collective Shared on Its Instagram Page that it was with the “Our Stage, Our Line-Up, and Our Labour” from Field Day.

The sisu crew members Who Pulled Out of this Year’s Line-up Include: Ex.sses, Malissa, Ariana V, Inda Flo, Calaida, Guyz, Jezebelle, Chickie, Izzy. and moontalk. Only a few later, Midland, Rosa Terenzi, Spray, Regulafantasy, Radio Voices and Corsica Studios Also Pulled Out of the Event.

INTIAL INITIAL STEETEENT SHARED ON May 15, Field Day Opened with an Apology for “Taching this Long” to respond to the artists’ open letter. The festival shared that it has “no Say” when the Company was bough by kkr in 2024, but was Challenged by many artists and planned attitude.

Some Ticketholders for the UpComing Event Area Calling on the Festival to Issue Refunds Given the Reduced Line-Up. In one comment on the festival’s Instagram Page, one user wrote: “43 artists to 24 Now. This is ridiculous.

Another Wrote: “Why are we not able to refund tickets if you’re claming to be close to sell out ?? the artists I wanted to see anymore performance – the event is what it was advertised as.”

The festival is set to take place place as scheduled in brockwell park on May 24, Despite a Recent High Court Ruling Put the Festival at Risk of Being Shut Down. Peggy Gou Will Headline The Festival with More Acts “TBA” Acciting to the Official Website.