A chant of “fuck EasyJet” broke out at Simple Life‘s final gig below their present band identify in London tonight (October 13) following a authorized battle with the airline’s licensing firm EasyGroup.
The band carried out their sold-out farewell present at London’s KOKO at this time, following a goodbye date on the O2 Academy of their Leicester hometown final night time (October 12).
Each reveals have been carried out in mild of the current authorized motion the members confronted from EasyGroup over their band identify.
Frontman Murray Matravers advised the London crowd that they hadn’t fairly labored out what to say on the farewell reveals, which was met by supportive cheers from followers earlier than an impassioned chant of “fuck EasyJet” erupted.
Matravers quipped in response: “Your phrases, not mine. I’m not allowed to say such issues, however I concur.”
Crowd leads a chant of “fuck easyJet” at @easylife’s London present tonight pic.twitter.com/corffX5GKM
— Hollie Geraghty (@Hollie_geraghty) October 13, 2023
“A great deal of you’ve been saying, ‘I’ll by no means use that airline once more’,” Matravers added.
He continued that whereas they “admire the sentiment”, followers ought to nonetheless fly with airline “if it’s the most cost effective” and “most suitable choice”, including: “Actually, we don’t care.”
The artist concluded by promising that they might “undoubtedly be again”.
“It’d take us a minute, it’d take us some time, we’ve got loads of shit to kind out, however we’ll be again,” Matravers stated.
Earlier this month, Simple Life revealed that they have been being sued over their identify, claiming the licensing firm was “forcing” them to alter it or face a pricey authorized battle.
Whereas the band initially hit again on the suggestion they have been “model thieves”, arguing they got here first – along with making a plea to withdraw authorized motion – on Tuesday (October 10), they introduced that they might be surrendering their identify because of a scarcity of funds to pursue it in court docket.
“Having explored actually each potential avenue, we’ve got realised that there are not any good choices accessible to us, and we have to change our identify to maneuver ahead,” they wrote in a press release, shared on their web site. “Sadly, evidently justice is barely accessible to those that can afford it. We merely don’t have the funds to entry a good trial within the excessive court docket.”
Together with their farewell reveals, Simple Life shared a brand new single this week referred to as ‘Belief Workout routines’.
“Time-sensitive in launch however timeless in musicality, ‘Belief Workout routines’ closes one chapter for the Leicester group while cementing its fame as considered one of this era’s most vital (and unstoppable) British bands,” learn a press launch.
