Sophia Chablau and a huge waste of time says she had a cut on her big screen and sound; City Hall states that action was preventive
The band Sophia Chablau and a huge waste of timewhich was part of the 2025 edition of the Lollapalooza Brasilthere was the show interrupted by the City of São Paulo in the late afternoon of Friday, 11.
The group performed at Patriarch Square, located in the central region of the city, as part of the Rock Weekevent promoted by the Municipal Secretariat of Culture.
According to the statement published by musicians on social networks, the sound and a projection on the stage were cut after a demonstration in support of Palestine.
By projecting the flags of Palestine and other global southern countries on our screen, we had our projection cut. After that, I (Sophia) I asked to return the projection. The projection did not return. After much complaint and indignation by our part and the audience, we still had the sound cut by the São Paulo City Hall and threat of fine, ”says the publication.
“In the contract there is nothing that can hurt us and publicly manifest in favor of Palestine is not a crime in our country. Soon after they cut our sound. And they told us to cut from the 7 remaining songs to 2. What happened today in the so -called“ Rock Week ”has nothing to do with what rock means. Rock is unsubmission, transgression. who went and could not hear all our songs. But what happened today is inadmissible for a democracy.
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In a note sent to Metropolisthe city said the panel was turned off and the sound preventively reduced “after speeches and projections that wounded contractual clauses, with offenses directed to third parties.”
“The manifestations are the sole responsibility of the artist and do not represent the institutional position of the City, which reinforces its commitment to artistic freedom within the legal parameters of the public administration,” said the answer.
Formed by Sophia Chablau (voice), Vicente Tassara (guitar), Téo Serson (low) and Theo Ceccato (drums), the band won the audience with a sound that mixes the agitation of experimental rock and the poetic delicacy of Brazilian music. Sophia Chablau and a huge waste of time It has two albums released: the eponymous album of 2021 and Forgetting musicpublished in 2023.
Source: Rollingstone
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