The 1975 condemned by Manchester bombing victim’s mother over music video featuring suicide vest: ‘What the hell were you thinking?’

Figen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett died in the 2017 terror attack, called the video ‘disgusting’

1975 frontman Matty Healy has been criticised for the band's new music video (Charles Reagan)

The mother of Manchester Arena bombing victim Martyn Hett has condemned The 1975’s latest music video, which briefly features frontman Matty Healy wearing a suicide vest.

In the video for “People”, a song from the band’s forthcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form, Healy can be seen detonating the vest, which explodes into heart and thumbs-up emojis.

Figen Murray, whose 29-year-old son Martyn was one of the 22 people killed in a terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017, wrote a tweet saying the Manchester-formed band should be “very ashamed” of the “disgusting” video, which she branded an “insult” to the dead.

“The 1975. Matt Healey.....,” reads the tweet. “What the hell were you thinking of releasing a music video where you carry a suicide vest and blow yourself up? You are from Manchester. Be ashamed..... be very ashamed. It is disgusting and an insult to the 22 people murdered.”

In another tweet, Figen added: “I know it was only a split second but my son and the others died in a split second. That was all it took. Devastated that this is even out there for young people to see as it glamourises suicide bombers. How can that even be circulated.”

The video shows Healy smiling before pressing a button and exploding the vest into a cloud of heart emojis.

Manchester City Council councillor Pat Karney added that the video was “totally insensitive”.

“He is one of us so should know what we would think,” he wrote on Twitter.

The Independent has contacted The 1975’s management for comment.