PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES SINGER DEPORTED FROM USA AFTER MOCKING TRUMP 10th August 2017
Peter Bywaters, singer of Punk Rock icons Peter And The Test Tube Babies, has been deported from the USA after being refused entry and subsequently interrogated for six hours at San Francisco airport.
The band were due to play at the Punk Invasion Festival in Santa Ana, Orange County last weekend but Bywaters was put on a plane back to London.
During the course of his six hour interrogation at the hands of CBP (Customs and Border Protection) officers, he was confronted with photos and videos of himself dressed as President Donald Trump taken during his last German tour where the frontman was particularly scathing about Trump and American politics in general.
Here's some footage from that notorious tour:
Bywaters has his passport and phone taken, he was finger printed, DNA swabbed, photographed and forced to make a sworn statement before being escorted to his seat on the plane.
During the eleven hour flight home he was denied any alcohol. When he asked why, he was told: "It is United Airlines policy to refuse alcohol to deportees on all of our flights."
Back in London Bywaters got his phone and passport back and stated:
"A US tour or festival will never ever happen again!"
Peter And The Test Tube Babies played the festival with the help of guest vocalists Joey of Narcoleptic Youth, Ron of Lower Class Brats, Gabe of Oi Scouts and Mike of Blank 77.
'That Shallot', the new Peter And The Test Tube Babies album, will be released on September 15th via Nuclear Blast imprint label Arising Empire. It's the band's first new album since 2004.
New single, 'Crap Californian Punk Band', featuring Lars Frederiksen from Rancid, will be released on September 1st and you can catch Peter And The Test Tube Babies live at the following dates:
September 29th: Stoke, Venue 11 September 30th: North East Calling, Sunderland October 1st: Manchester. Venue TBC October 6th: London, 100 Club October 7th: The Great British Alternative Festival, Skegness November 4th: Midlands Calling - Wolverhampton, Wulfrun hall November 24th: Southampton, Talking Heads November 25th: Ramsgate, Elephant & Castle December 29th: Brighton, The Prince Albert December 30th: London, New Cross Inn
Peter And The Test Tube Babies are: Peter Bywaters - vocals Derek 'Del' Greening - guitar Nick Abnett - bass Sam Fuller - drums