A musician has described walking out of a venue before a gig after finding out it would be attended by US Vice-President JD Vance.
Oxfordshire-based, alternative post-folk artist Dolly Mavies posted on social media that she and her band “packed up our stuff and left” when they discovered it was to entertain the holidaying vice-president.
The US politician is spending part of his summer break near the Oxfordshire village of Charlbury in the Cotwolds.
He has already spent time with Foreign Secretary David Lammy at his grace-and-favour country home Chevening House in Kent.
Dolly Mavies – whose real name is Molly Davies – is described as “blending folk’s heartfelt storytelling with rock’s driving rhythms”.
Posting on Instagram, she said she and her band members got a “weird feeling” when they arrived at the venue which she had played previously.
She said they soon realised Vance would be attending.
“So not being fans of his, we decided that wasn’t for us and we packed up our stuff and left.
“Because morals are more important than money.”
Vance is reported to be staying in a house very close to Diddly Squat – the farm and pub belonging to broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson.
American residents of the Cotswolds include TV chat show host Ellen DeGeneres, who said she fled to the area specifically to escape President Donald Trump and his acolytes.