US rock group cancels TV gig over refusal to allow Bush backdrop

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2005

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hard-rock group Nine Inch Nails has cancelled a performance at the MTV Movie Awards next month after the network refused to allow it to use an image of President George W. Bush as a backdrop, the band said.

The group had planned to perform its new hit single "The Hand That Feeds," described in the Los Angeles Times last month as "a warning against blind acceptance of authority, including that of a president leading his nation to war."

"Nine Inch Nails will not be performing at the MTV Movie Awards as previously announced," band leader Trent Reznor said in a statement on the group's website.

"We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently, the image of...