Matty Healy congratulates first Gen Z Congressman and The 1975 fan onstage
The USA’ first Gen Z Congressman can be an enormous 1975 fan, and was congratulated on his election by Matty Healy onstage in Washington, DC.
Earlier this week, 25-year-old Maxwell Frost received his election race in Florida’s tenth congressional district as a part of the US midterm elections.
Sharing the information of his win on Twitter, Frost stated he was going to have a good time the victory by attending The 1975’s gig at The Anthem in Washington on Thursday (November 10).
Matty Healy clearly caught wind of Frost’s attendance, and congratulated him on his victory from the stage.
“Sadly I didn’t have the pleasure of assembly this individual at the moment as a result of I assumed I had COVID,” he advised the group, “however there’s a genuinely younger man right here, a 25-year-old man, Maxwell Frost… I hope I didn’t get his identify incorrect. Is he up there? The place is he? Is he gone? Is he in the bathroom? He’s gone for a piss…”
After recognizing Frost within the crowd, Healy continued: “That man proper there’s a 25-year-old who simply made his approach to Congress, and I feel it’s about rattling time that we now have some 1975 fandom illustration in Congress!”
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I’VE BEEN CAMPAIGNING FOR OVER A YEAR THIS IS WILD!! I’M GONNA SEE @the1975 ON THURSDAY TO CELEBRATE!!!
— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) November 9, 2022
Congressman-elect (and 1975 fan) Maxwell Frost gets a shout out from Matty during the DC show before “Love It If We Made It” from the1975
The band are acurrently on their North American ‘At Their Very Greatest’ tour, behind new album ‘Being Humorous In A Overseas Language’, which got here out final month.
The group kicked off their present headline tour in Uncasville, Connecticut final Thursday (November 3), the place they debuted an formidable and dazzling new stage design.
Throughout a gig at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York this week, frontman Healy ate uncooked meat, did push-ups after which crawled right into a hollowed-out TV set as a part of the ‘Consumption’ interlude.
In a five-star overview of the identical present, NME wrote: “It’s the type of evening that solely The 1975 might host, the kind of night that leaves you buzzing and remembering why you like stay music within the first place, strolling house and pondering aloud, as one fan did earlier than heading in direction of the subway: ‘I didn’t know the way a lot I wanted that’.”
The 1975 are set to convey the ‘At Their Very Greatest’ tour to the UK and Eire in January 2023. Find any remaining tickets here.