Stefani tour "too obscene" for Malaysia
Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 07:21
Stefani is heading to Malaysia next month
US singer Gwen Stefani is reportedly facing calls for her forthcoming concert in Malaysia to be scrapped amid claims it is too obscene.
A Muslim student group in the country is pressing for the Kuala Lumpur leg of her current tour to be cancelled on the grounds that it would clash with local Islamic values, the Reuters news agency reports.
The planned concert, part of Stefani's Sweet Escape tour, is due to take place on August 21st at the city's Putra Stadium.
However the 10,000-strong National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students is urging organisers to pull the plug on the gig, claiming that video clips to promote the event are "too obscene".
"We want the organisers to cancel the concert, failing which we will ask the authorities to intervene," the group's president, Mohamad Hilmi Ramli, told Reuters.
Meanwhile press reports claim that Stefani took time out from her tour of Australia yesterday to take her baby son Kingston to play with the daughter of tennis star Lleyton Hewitt at his Sydney home.
The singer is due to play at the city's Acer Stadium tonight, before heading to Melbourne to perform two further gigs.
Stefani will also perform in Adelaide and Perth before leaving Australia to start the Asian leg of her tour in Japan, which begins in Tokyo on August 11th.