Photo: Shirlaine Forrest
The 1975 frontman Matt Healy spoke out to make a powerful speech about the EU referendum result during the band's epic Glastonbury 2016 set.
The 'Love Me' and 'Chocolate' stars were performing a blissful sunset performance, when Healy introduced 'Loving Someone' by slamming the older generations who voted in favour of Brexit.
"This song is about compassion, and loving people, and I feel like as a young person I've got a responsibility to say something," he said. "What do I know, I don't fucking know anything. I'm a popstar in a suit, but what I feel, and I know what a lot of people my age feel is that there's this sentiment of anti-compassion that's spread across an older generation and voted in a future that we don't fucking want."
He continued: "And like I said, I know, I'm a popstar, what do I know, but it is appropriate for me to say that because I'm here, because we're at Glastonbury, and Glastonbury stands for fucking everything that our generation fucking wants.
"Compassion, social responsibility, unity, community, everything like that. Fucking loving people. And I think that when you stand on a stage like this, in front of so many obviously beautiful, intelligent people, it's difficult to say nothing. I love you, Glastonbury, thank you so much for coming to our set."
The 1975 will be performing at The O2 in London on Friday 16 December. Tickets are on general sale from 9am on Friday 10 June and are already available here.
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