Overview

• The BBC has instituted a ban on live broadcasts of acts it deems high risk after mistakenly streaming Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance.
• Director of music Lorna Clarke and other senior staff have stepped back as the BBC opens internal disciplinary proceedings.
• Avon and Somerset Police continue a criminal investigation into the duo’s anti-IDF chants even as U.S. visas have been revoked and agency representation withdrawn.
• Music trade bodies have criticized the BBC’s risk-based broadcast grading as arbitrary and warned that it could jeopardize artists’ freedom of expression.
• Bands including Hero In Error, The Scratch and ĠENN pulled out of Manchester’s Radar Festival in solidarity and public figures such as Chuck D have defended Vylan as their album re-enters UK charts amid divided reactions.