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The Fleece, a live music venue in Bristol have denied claims they are encouraging a boycott on Fat White Family, after an incident occured at the band's show there earlier this month.
Writing a lengthy post on their facebook yesterday (which has since been deleted), the band claimed that they were thrown out the venue after their show because one of the group's girlfriends didn't have an access all areas pass.
The post explained: "They sent a load of bouncers to chuck my girlfriend out of our dressing room. Horrible bully boy bouncers that basically attacked her. Then the owners/managers of the venue told us we had to leave. For no reason whatsoever."
The band went on to say "the people that run the fleece in Bristol need [to be] lined up against a wall and shot".
After explaining the incident, the post then went onto claim that The Fleece had been contacting other venues and urging them not to book the band in the future, a point that was further called out in another statement Fat White Family released earlier today (29 August).
The new post reads "After chucking us out of the venue because one of our girlfriends didn't have an access all areas pass they went on to contact all the venues we are playing at on our up and coming tour and try to encourage some kind of boycott of the fat white family."
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A spokesperson for the venue has since denied the claims of a boycott, telling NME: "There has been no attempt to convince venues not to book the Fat White Family or cancel upcoming shows."
They continued: "There is a network of venues in the UK who discuss how shows go and notify others if they have a show which is out of the ordinary so that the future dates can be prepared with additional bar staff, security or any other requirements. Unfortunately the band has got the wrong impression on this and we are sorry they feel this way, however, we were acting in a way to make sure the rest of their tour was a success, and not in any way hinder them."
Fat White Family will play a string of dates around the UK next month (for now anyway), including an appearance at Bestival next week.
Read the full statement from the band's Facebook page below:
"Our manager decided to take it into his own (terrible) hands and remove the status we wrote about the fleece in Bristol. We accept that it may have been a llittle over the top. We don't actually want to see anyone from the fleece lined up against the wall and shot but it has to be said that the bouncers and managers at that venue were some of the strangest power tripping creeps we have ever come across. After chucking us out of the venue because one of our girlfriends didn't have an access all areas pass they went on to contact all the venues we are playing at on our up and coming tour and try to encourage some kind of boycott of the fat white family. If anyone wants to cancel our shows on account of what they've heard from the fleece then we have no interest In playing your venues anyway."
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