Download festival artists pull out days before event after CMat leads boycott-Rebecca Sayce-Entertainment – Metro

Three bands set to perform Download Festival are now boycotting the event (Picture: Katja Ogrin/Getty Images)

Three bands have pulled out of Download Festival days before thousands of music fans arrive onsite over sponsor Barclaycard’s ties to Israel.

Scowl, Speed, and Zulu are the latest acts to pull out of the three-day Donington Park Circuit event in solidarity with Palestine and the ongoing war in Gaza.

The festival is set to take place this weekend with performances from Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit, and Busted.

Barclaycard is listed as the official payment partner for Download, with campaigners accusing the bank of increasing its investment in arms companies that trade with Israel.

The company has said it doesn’t make its own investments, but that it does have customers in the defence sector.

It comes as CMAT pulled out of their performance at this year’s Latitude Festival, where Barclays was the headline sponsor.

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