East India Youth unable to play this year's Iceland Airwaves
East India Youth will not play his slot following The Knife at Harpa Silfurberg tonight (8 November) due to complications with the Visa process.
East India Youth's manager Andy Inglis offered an explanation and apology:
"People have a habit of arbitrarily blaming an artist when this kind of thing happens – largely because those who’re responsible are invisible – but the responsibility is generally of those those around them, specifically management and, in this case, specifically me.
It’s not the first time a UK-based artist has cancelled Airwaves this year. This can reflect badly on a festival when an audience is looking for someone to blame. Iceland Airwaves is not to blame. I am where the buck stops, and I am sorry."
Read the statement in full here.
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