Éire / Ireland

Statement by the Club:

clubgretchen We are very sorry that the show with The Murder Capital didn't take place.

We as venue have a „no national flag" policy since many years. That means that we do not tolerate any kind of national flags in our venue. This is also written down in our venue specs so that also artists get to know about that. During the sound check this late afternoon it turned out that the band had a Palestinian flag on stage. We asked them to take the flag away, but they decided that for them and their show this flag is too important to be able to do the show without.

We try to be a safe place for many different communities and really believe that music is able to build bridges - beyond borders and nationalities. Therefore we deeple believe that national flags are not helpful all at.

We feel deeply honoured that we can work together with so many different communites and artists from all over the world. We did so in the past, do so now and will do so in the future.

Regarding the middle east, we try to support the palestinian community as well as jewish and/ or israeli people. We also present artists from all over this region.

We never cancel speeches as long as they are not hatespeeches against other groups of human beings. We try to encounter everybody with empathy and consider it important to follow our heart.

We feel very sorry that all the fans weren't able to experience the concert they were coming for, but there is no compromise possible between „a national flag" and „no national flag". And there is probably no right or wrong.

We like to say thank you to all those who understand our policy. We know that there are people who doesn't. Fair enough.

And of course we know that there will be a huge shitstorm under this post.

But for doing a club like we do, we need to remain true to ourselves and our beliefs.