{"id":59575,"date":"2023-11-02T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/01\/malaysia-issues-kill-switch-order-to-cut-controversial-concerts-the-1975"},"modified":"2023-11-02T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:20:30","slug":"malaysia-issues-kill-switch-order-to-cut-controversial-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59575","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia issues \u2018kill switch\u2019 order to cut controversial concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measure to ensure foreign artists \u2018adhere to the local culture\u2019 follows incident at gig by the 1975 in Kuala Lumpur<\/p>\n<p>Concert organisers in Malaysia must now have a \u201ckill switch\u201d to cut short performances that break official guidelines, a minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>The measure follows the controversy surrounding a performance in Kuala Lumpur by the 1975, whose frontman Matty Healy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/jul\/23\/the-1975-cancels-shows-in-indonesia-and-taiwan-after-malaysia-gay-kiss-uproar\">criticised Malaysia\u2019s homophobic laws<\/a> in a profanity-laden speech and kissed a male bandmate on stage. The incident in July led to the cancellation of the weekend festival at which the band was performing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/01\/malaysia-issues-kill-switch-order-to-cut-controversial-concerts-the-1975\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measure to ensure foreign artists \u2018adhere to the local culture\u2019 follows incident at gig by the 1975 in Kuala LumpurConcert organisers in Malaysia must now have a \u201ckill switch\u201d to cut short performances that break official guidelines, a minister has sai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,71,2729,70,425,2954,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-culture","category-lgbtq-rights","category-malaysia","category-music","category-the-1975","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59576,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59575\/revisions\/59576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}