“Our music is for sale but our humanity and morality is not.” Massive Attack voice their support for artists boycotting music festivals in protest against “corporate support for genocide in Palestine”

Massive Attack.

Massive Attack have issued a statement expressing solidarity with artists who have chosen to boycott this week's The Great Escape festival.

Over 100 acts have now pulled out of the event, due to be held at various venues across Brighton from May 15-18, due to the festival taking sponsorship money from Barclays, which invests in companies supplying arms to the Israeli military, in light of the on-going attacks on Gaza. A significant number of young artists also pulled out of scheduled appearances at the SXSW festival in March upon discovering that the US Army and military contractors arming Israel were sponsors of the event.