Ice Spice has been slammed by many of her fans after a ‘disrespectful’ five-minute performance at a New Year’s Eve bash in Queensland, Australia.
Music as we approach the New Year is at the upmost importance, and those who attended the Wildlands Festival at Brisbane Showgrounds to bring in 2025 were excited for Ice Spice as the headline act.
Alongside two other headline stars, the 25-year-old was meant to be on stage from 10:30pm local time, while Chase & Status were set to bring in the New Year.
However, Ice Spice turned up to her headliner set 25 minutes late, so her time performing ultimately lasted just over five minutes, much to fans’ anger.
Brenton Larney, who was in the crowd for the short performance, said: “At 11.01pm – they gave her an extra minute – they cut the mic and you heard the collective sigh from the crowd.
“They’d been waiting for a while and they get two songs?
“So that was a bit ridiculous and it was just really disrespectful how she walked off, she was laughing they tried to give her flowers for her birthday and she just shrugged them off.”
The Aussie-based reporter added: “It was just really disrespectful to see, especially with all the cancellations and stuff we’ve had in the Australian music scene.
“It didn’t help.”
Clips from the performance have since gone viral on the likes of TikTok and Twitter, with the majority of fans slamming the singer for being so late.
“Honestly iconic of the organisers to enforce the schedule and not just let her lateness make everything else run later,” one person commented on TikTok.
Ice Spice was on stage for just five minutes (TheStewartofNY/GC Images)
A second added: “As a performing artist (on a way smaller scale) I can NOTT understand being late to your own show. Like that’s my #1 nightmare.”
While a third remarked: “Being late is just unprofessional, in the UK we have curfews for music so if someone runs over the mic is just cut, I’ve never seen an artist here be late because we just don’t allow it.”
Wildlands festival has since taken to social media to address the incident.
They said: “We understand that Ice Spice’s delayed arrival caused some frustration. Managing a stacked festival means that we have to be extremely firm with scheduled set times. We had a strict curfew of 12:30 and needed to ensure that Chase & Status went on stage on time so you could all enjoy the NYE Countdown!”
UNILAD has reached out to Ice Spice’s representatives for comment.
