Award-winning Young Fathers become 8th act to cancel Pop-Kultur
Young Fathers, the Mercury Award-winning group from Edinburgh, have announced their withdrawal from Berlin Pop-Kultur to protest the festival’s acceptance of sponsorship from the Israeli Embassy in German y.
Young Fathers are the third group of UK artists, and the eighth in total, to withdraw from Pop-Kultur in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation and in exile. The band, who performed in M.I.A.’s Meltdown Festival at the London Southbank in June 2017, issues the following statement –