Bobby Vylan, the vocalist of Bob Vylan, shares his views with the crowd on topics including Reform, Palestine, Racism, and the BBC. The expletive-laden performance is at the 2025 Boardmasters festival.
The band was formed in 2017 by singer–guitarist Bobby Vylan (real name Pascal Robinson-Foster) and drummer Bobbie Vylan (real name Wade Laurence George) in Ipswich.
The band released their debut album on June 5, 2020, titled We Live Here. The album was self-released after the band was told that it was " too extreme" by the music industry. Bob Vylan then toured supporting the Offspring and Biffy Clyro and performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2021.[citation needed] The band released its second studio album on 22 April 2022, Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life, which entered the UK Albums Chart at number 18. The band released two singles from their third studio album, Humble as the Sun, on 27 October 2023. The album was released on 5 April 2024.[
An English punk rap duo based in London. Their work merges elements of punk rock, hip hop, grime, and hardcore, and features criticisms of the British establishment, inequality, racism, sexism, and homophobia. The members are Bobby Vylan on vocals and guitar, and Bobbie Vylan on drums; both are stage names meant to maintain their privacy in the face of what they describe as a surveillance state. They refer to themselves as "the Bobs". The group has released four albums, firstly with their self-released 2019 debut Dread, and is most recently signed to the record label Ghost Theatre.
The group is outspoken in its opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the government of Israel and Israel's actions in the Gaza war, which they described as genocide. They sparked controversy during their performance at the Glastonbury Festival 2025 for leading the crowd in a chant of "death, death to the IDF", which resulted in their visas for an upcoming tour in the United States being revoked. Following the controversy, their recent album Humble as the Sun (2024) topped the UK Hip Hop and R&B Album Chart and reached number 8 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.