Matty Healy congratulates first Gen Z Congressman and The 1975 fan onstage
The USA’ first Gen Z Congressman can also 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 mentioned he was going to have fun 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 as we speak as a result of I believed I had COVID,” he informed the gang, “however there’s a genuinely younger man right here, a 25-year-old man, Maxwell Frost… I hope I didn’t get his title improper. 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 option to Congress, and I feel it’s about rattling time that we’ve got 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 will get a shout out from Matty through the DC present earlier than “Love It If We Made It” from the1975
The band are acurrently on their North American ‘At Their Very Finest’ tour, behind new album ‘Being Humorous In A International 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 evaluation of the identical present, NME wrote: “It’s the type of evening that solely The 1975 may host, the kind of night that leaves you buzzing and remembering why you like reside music within the first place, strolling house and considering 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 carry the ‘At Their Very Finest’ tour to the UK and Eire in January 2023. Discover any remaining tickets right here.