Ellie Goulding Had the Best Response to Matty Healy's Claims That People 'Don't Buy' Her Albums

"It wasn’t the time for me to pitch my post-rock Joni Mitchell project."

Healy has already said the band have more music ready for after 'Notes On A Conditional Form'

"I met them years later and told them the whole story and they weren't remotely interested"

They're not going anywhere just yet

The 1975’s Matty Healy has discussed his commitment to gender equality in festival lineups in a new interview with Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes at The Guardian. After criticism was leveled at the lineups of UK-based festivals including Leeds and Reading, Snapes called for the band to “add a condition to your rider that says you’ll only play festivals that commit to X% (ideally 50%!) acts that include women and non-binary performers.” Healy responded:

Following backlash over the male-heavy lineup for the 2020 Reading and Leeds festival, The 1975 frontman Matty Healy says the band will only play gender-balanced music festivals from now on. Of the 91 artists on the Reading and Leeds bill, headlined by Rage Against the Machine, Stormzy and Liam Gallagher, only 20 are female or feature women.

"I believe this is how male artist can be true allies"

After appearing on stage in a hospital gown earlier this week following some medical issues, The 1975 frontman Matty Healy surprised fans again this week during the band's Australian tour by busting out an acoustic version of a new song. The track, which Healy previously revealed is titled "Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America," is slated to appear on the group's upcoming Notes on a Conditional Form album.

This looked special

The 1975 had to cancel their show in Brisbane, Australia, on Saturday night (Feb. 1) due to front man Matty Healy suffering from "a bout of serious sickness." The next night, Healy felt better and took the stage in Sydney, but really drove his point home by performing in a hospital gown.

Healy was hospitalised after suffering a “bout of serious sickness”

The frontman was recently hospitalised, leading his band to cancel a Brisbane show this week.

The band had to cancel their performance in Brisbane

"I've had 3 multi platinum albums"