Watch the speech that got Matty Healy and The 1975 ‘banned’ from Malaysia

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy delivers speech attacking Malaysia's anti-LGBT+ lawsCaitlin Chuah

Transcript

00:00 mistake. Not that. Now I made a mistake. When we were booking shows, I wasn't looking into

00:11 it. And then I don't see the point, right? I do not see the point of inviting the 1975

00:23 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with. And I'm sorry if that offends

00:31 you and you're religious and it's part of your f***ing government. But your government

00:38 are a bunch of f***s. And I don't care anymore. If you push, I'm gonna push back. I'm not

00:51 in the f***ing mood. I'm not in the f***ing mood. You don't get a set of loads of uplifting

00:58 songs because I'm f***ing furious. And that's not fair on you because you're not representative

01:08 of your government. Because you are young people and I'm sure a lot of you are gay and

01:16 progressive and cool. So I pulled the show yesterday. I pulled this show yesterday and

01:25 we had a conversation. We said, f***ing ridiculous to tell people what they can do with that

01:35 and that. And if you want to invite me here to do a show, you can f*** off. I'll take

01:48 your money. You can ban me. But I've done this before and it doesn't feel good. And

01:57 I'm f***ed off.