Despite the very public brouhaha surrounding New Zealand act Silicon‘s abrupt removal from the Laneway festival lineup, organisers have yet to make a public announcement to fans about his ousting. Silicon (aka Kody Nielson) was booted off the bill for “kissing a cop’s gun” during his set at Laneway’s Adelaide leg on Friday, and has since been removed from
“They said they ‘didn’t want this to go public’ but I feel like at the very least our fans deserve an explanation as to why we just vanished from the lineup.”
“There is no need for Police to carry guns at a music festival.”
“Fuck Lameway festival and fuck the police.”
Chet Faker is returning home for some huge shows as his final Australian tour in support of his debut Built On Glass and now he’s given fans even more reason to get along to them, announcing a few stellar support acts. Chet has picked four artists, Silicon, Awesome Tapes Of Africa, Cleopold and Otologic, to
