Bob Vylan gig in Netherlands cancelled after frontman makes comments about death of Charlie Kirk

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Bob Vylan gig in Netherlands cancelled after frontman makes comments about death of Charlie Kirk

The 013 venue in Tilburg says ‘new statements go too far’, while band responds that ‘at no point was Kirk’s death celebrated’

The punk duo Bob Vylan have had a gig cancelled after their frontman Bobby Vylan called the far right commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot last week in Utah, “an absolute piece of shit of a human being” while performing in Amsterdam.

The Tilburg venue 013 has cancelled the Ipswich band’s 16 September show as a result, saying that the band went “too far” at the Paradiso venue in the Dutch capital.

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