Brand New recently reunited and are planning to return to the road this year. However, their decision to return has been controversial due to the various sexual misconduct and grooming allegations against frontman Jesse Lacey. As such, Protest The Hero vocalist Rody Walker recently decided to blast Lacey live onstage. He said the following:
“People love to call other people pedophiles. Politicians do it all the time — especially conservative politicians. They love to be like, ‘This person’s a pedophile, that person’s a pedophile,’ but nobody does anything about real pedophilia. Why is anybody going to see Brand New? Motherfucker was grooming children. He should not be afforded the stage he used to groom children.”
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