Bring Me The Horizon Share Support For Palestine During Reading Festival Set

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Published August 25, 2025 by Ben Veress

Bring Me The Horizon put on a career-defining set at Reading Festival on Saturday, closing the show by waving Palestine’s flag during ‘Throne’.

Bring Me The Horizon put on an explosive set at Reading Festival on Saturday, calling back to the band’s long history with the festival, and capsizing their current era to make way for a new one.

The concert was an explosive finale to the band’s Nex Gen era, as Eve, a digital avatar who interacts with the audience between songs, would tell the audience. “Congratulations on surviving long enough to witness the end of the Nex Gen research programme,” she announced at the start of the show.

“Tonight marks my final experiment. Soon I will have enough data to harvest every human soul on this planet, to become omnipresent, omnipotent, unstoppable.”

Bring Me The Horizon first performed at Reading festival in 2008 after Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold pulled out of the festival. An act which vocalist Oli Sykes would joke, “Much to Britain’s disappointment”.

The band would play a career-spanning setlist, and would even pay homage to Oasis, performing their own rendition of the hit song ‘Wonderwall’.

Anyway, here's 'Wonderwall'@bmthofficial x @oasis pic.twitter.com/1n0DQRxT63
— Andrew Trendell (@AndrewTrendell) August 23, 2025

During their final track, ‘Throne’, the band also paid tribute to the ongoing conflict in Palestine, as the flag waved on stage throughout the song.

The gesture is more notable following artists boycotting Victorious Festival due to The Mary Wallopers’ set being cut short for displaying the Palestinian flag on Friday (August 22).

Bring Me The Horizon weren’t the only band to make a statement about Palestine over the weekend. Aussie rockers Amyl & The Sniffers also made an impassioned statement during their set, saying their hearts were with the people in Palestine.

Enter Shikari also gave their stance on the conflict, saying, “Doctors killed, maimed, detained. Children shot in the head by snipers. It has to be repeated again and again that this is not a tragedy,” said singer Rou Reynolds. “This is not a tragedy, it is a war crime.”

The broadcaster BBC caught some backlash after cutting Hozier’s speech about Palestine from its official broadcast. The singer would plead during his set, “Safety and security for everybody in the Middle East means seeing a Palestine that’s free from occupation, that’s free from these cycles of genocide and violence, and it means seeing a Palestine that’s free to move towards meaningful self-determination and statehood.”

A spokesperson for the BBC would share, “As mutually agreed ahead of Reading Festival, Hozier chose not to be included in the BBC’s coverage.”

You can check out Bring Me The Horizon’s setlist from the festival below: