Yet an additional rock festival is seeing acts drop from its lineup due to sponsorship ties.

The 3-day Download Festival is set to kickoff in the U.K. in Donington Park on Friday. Headliners for the fest involve Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold.

Why Bands Are Dropping From Download Festival

While these headliners are nevertheless set to execute for the duration of the Download Festival, many other acts farther down on the bill have removed themselves from the lineup just after discovering Barclays is 1 of the principal sponsors of the occasion.

The London-primarily based Barclays is a bank that Stereogum says has “strong ties to arms companies that sell weapons to Israel.”

At the time of this report, at least 4 bands have dropped from Download Festival’s schedule.

Who Is Now Longer Playing Download Festival?

This will be the third festival Scowl have removed themselves from this year due to sponsors.

The California hardcore band dropped out of each Welcome to Rockville in May and South by Southwest in March just after discovering the events have been sponsored by the U.S. Army. In all, a reported 80 musicians and panelists decided not to participate in this year’s South by Southwest in Austin.

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In addition to Scowl, Australian hardcore punk band Speed also have removed themselves from Download Festival.

In addition to dropping out of the fest, Speed also is donating a portion of its ticket sales to help Palestinian refugees.

Thrash act Pest Control was amongst the very first names to be removed from the Download Festival lineup just after posting a lengthy explanation on Instagram.

“We cannot sacrifice the principles held by this band and by the scene we come from and represent, just for personal gain,” the band stated on social media.

Hardcore band ZULU took a comparable method utilizing Instagram to attain fans about why they would no longer be playing the festival.

All 4 acts are now set to play a final-minute Palestine advantage show in Birmingham on Friday.

What This Means For Festivals Moving Forward

In addition to sharing their motivation from dropping out of Download Festival, the bands also tagged social media accounts for Bands Boycott Barclays. The group has been vocal about festivals with sponsorship ties to the bank.

More than 100 acts dropped from the Great Escape festival in England earlier this year following the group’s pleas to boycott the even due to Barclays’ involvement.

Other upcoming European festivals known as out by Bands Boycott Barclays involve Isle of Wight Festival, Camp Bestival and Latitude.

While the push for acts to drop due to sponsorships has created festival organizers scramble to adjust their schedule, none of the cancellations have seemed to have a enormous impact on the events. In reality, some artists have spoken out against these who have cancelled festival dates.

Falling in Reverse’s Ronnie Radke took to social media to get in touch with Scowl and Speed “fucking poseurs” for dropping out of Download Festival.

“You’re not real punk and you’ll checked at a show if I ever see you,” Radke stated in a video that has given that been removed from X (formerly Twitter).