Matty Healy hit with $2.7 million bill from Malaysian music festival over same-sex kiss

—or, more accurately, 12.3 million ringgit,, is the music festival Healy shut down pretty much single-tonguedly a few weeks back, when—upon being reminded

of Malaysia’s restrictive and oppressive legal strictures on homosexuality—he gave a long rant to his audience, before kissing bandmate Ross MacDonald on the lips . This led, in turn, to the band’s headlining set being abruptly shut down—and then, the next day, organizers announcing that the following days of the festival would also be shuttered, on government demand. (Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia, with sentences that can include

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