The 1975’s Matty Healy pledges to only play festivals with gender balanced line-ups

"I’ve just finished it. So it will come out as soon as it’s physically made."

She praised Matty's "very obscure" taste in memes

Their fourth album 'Notes On A Conditional Form' is coming later this year

"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"

The 1975 head out to "The Birthday Party" of every sad meme lover's dreams in their latest music video released today (Feb. 19) with the new single via Dirty Hit/ Interscope Records.

They're not going anywhere just yet

"Our society is sexist, and that is reflected in all industries," they said on the red carpet at the NME Awards 2020

"We’re there now, but it’s got to happen."

"We’re there now, but it’s got to happen."

"We aim for as near as possible 50/50 as we can get."

"We genuinely didn't know we were getting this. I don't really know what to say"

Two years on from “step up,” things in the music world seemingly have stepped back in time, from the Recording Academy’s epic diversity failures to the return to male-dominated headliners at many major festivals, including a testosterone-heavy Coachella — as called out by Variety and many others — and Britain’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, the lineups of which feature just 20 female-fronted acts out of 91.

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:

The 1975’s Matthew Healy has said he will no longer play at music festivals with a lack of female acts on the line-up.

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.

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.