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End It, a hardcore band from Baltimore just made a comeback to the stage and seemed to have put an end to the conflict with banana men all over the world, as per theprp. When the group’s singer Akil Godsey notoriously urged the crowd to rip apart a concertgoer’s banana costume at their June 5th performance in Toronto, Ontario, the group elicited conflicting responses earlier this month. Godsey went to social media this past week following weeks of silence during which End It‘s Facebook page vanished and the group was not included in an announcement of a planned autumn tour with Hatebreed and Life of Agony (they were allegedly left out at the last minute till things subsided). He was mainly contemptuous of the controversy in a video statement.
However, it seems that Godsey and his bandmates have changed their minds about their loathing of banana men during their recent run at a few European festivals. Godsey recently posted the images below on his Instagram account, showing him embracing a concertgoer wearing a banana costume during the band’s June 27th performance at “Jera On Air” in Ysselsteyn, NET. “The great Banana Treaty of Ysselsteyn” was his caption for the photo. Since then, video footage of End It singer Akil Godsey embracing this new banana guy onstage has surfaced online, along with some of Godsey’s onstage remarks regarding the fallout the original banana man incident caused.
Furthermore, in response to publication of this most recent event, the original banana man targeted at the Toronto, Ontario show, who had previously claimed that no one from the band’s management contacted him to apologise following the initial incident, said, “Yea. Nah.”
