G Festival - Music Hits A New Low

Introducing…the worst festival on earth!

G!Festival, coming at you…

Bizarrely, G!Festival, the music festival held annually by the Faroe Islands, has been going for a few years now -yet it has taken until now for it to come across our path. Above in our cover photo, please observe the festival map to the left, highlighting areas of interest at the event. On the right…please observe the bay a few months earlier. Doused red with the blood of a thousand Pilot Whales. 

This is Syðrugøta in the Faroe Islands after a Pilot Whale hunt. The exact location for G! Festival where our very own Fatboy Slim will be headlining this Saturday 13th July. Can you think of a worse place for a celebration of music? We cannot! 

Whaling in the Faroe Islands takes the form of beaching and slaughtering Long-Finned Pilot Whales, a type of Dolphin “drive hunting”. It has been practised since about the time of the first Norse settlements on these North Atlantic islands, and thus is often considered a tradition. But this is a brutal and cruel practice, that now in our modern world is unnecessary and barbaric behaviour. Cruelty aside, Whale or Dolphin meat is not a healthy addition to the human diet, it is rife with Mercury and other dangerous contaminants, not to mention the plastic particles all oceanic creatures are now ingesting.

The worst thing about this islands terrible yearly agenda, is that to most of society it is hidden and unknown. Please do your research before travelling to another country, see what behaviours you are funding, supporting or getting involved in. 

Music festivals are a place of fun, freedom and joy. This location is stained with blood and cruelty. Children are murdered in front of their mothers. Pain is inflicted. This is a murder site of mass proportions. Not the place for a musical celebration. 

We cannot help but question the participation of the acts involved in this event, Fatboy Slim do you support these peoples and their behaviours? Do you support this location and the reverence of death that it holds? 

Show your support to end this annual slaughter, via Change.Org HERE and let’s encourage the Faroese to concentrate on Music and forget about the Slaughter… 

Information source: Blue Planet Society
Images from: G!Festival, BPS, G!Festival and Sea Shepherd respectively  

For more information on similar Grinds, watch THE COVE 

Or even just google “Faroe Island Grind”