The Comet Is Coming Cancels Its Last Concert As Support For Palestine

JAKARTA - The Comet Is Coming announced they would not hold their final concert to support Palestine.

Initially, the London-based jazz-funk band will play their final show at Bratislava on the evening of October 20.

But now they announced to fans that the concert would no longer be held due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

We decided to cancel our concert tonight at Bratislava. We stand in solidarity with the global call for a strike carried out by our Palestinian brothers and sisters who were in the middle of a genocide attack," they wrote on X/Twitter, confirming the cancellation was just hours before the concert began.

This will be our last show. Our final statement is a call for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine and routine violence against the Palestinian people.

We have decided to cancel our concert tonight in Bratislava. We stand in solidarity with the global call to strike by our Palestinian brothers and sisters who are in the midst of a genocidal assault.This was to be our final show. pic.twitter.com/SvP87QVMHL

— The Comet is Coming (@cometcoming) October 20, 2023

We have decided to cancel our concern tonight in Bratislava. We stand in solidarity with the global call to strike by our Palestinian brothers and sisters who are in the midst of a genocidal attack.This was to be our final show. pic.twitter.com/SvP87QVMHL

News of their dissolution came earlier this year, when members shared an online post confirming that after their world tour, they would go through an indefinite break (until the stars are aligned and the planet needs us').

The band first appeared with a debut album that was nominated for Mercury Prize "Channel the Spirits", and recently released the Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam album which received critical praise and appeared in the 2023 edition of Glastonbury.

The band is not the first name in the music world to speak out against the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Last week, Tom Morello of the Rage Against The Machine made headlines after he called for a curse for an act that harmed all children no matter who they were after Jamie Lee Curtis deleted a photo of Palestinians.

The actress's support for Israel comes after Hamas launched an attack on Israel earlier this month, and she later shared posts of damage in Gaza, expressing her support for Israel.