Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Keli Holiday barred from the US as Abbie Chatfield apologises over Trump post
Keli Holiday was denied entry to the US after a Toronto show, while Abbie Chatfield apologized over a Trump-related post.
Keli Holiday of Peking Duk has been blocked from re-entering the US, prompting his partner Abbie Chatfield to issue an apology over a separate post about Donald Trump.
Holiday, the Australian musician and one half of the electro duo, said he was detained at the US-Canada border on Friday, May 8, after a show in Toronto while on a North American tour. Writing on social media, he said he had “spent all day detained at the Canadian border and denied entry back into the US,” despite having “the proper visa documentation.” He has since returned to Australia.
On Tuesday, May 12, Chatfield addressed speculation that Holiday’s border issue was linked to a video she posted last summer that criticised Trump.
“A video that I posted a year ago has come back to haunt me, essentially,” Chatfield said.
The original post had also discussed Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. Mangione is due to face trial later this year over the alleged murder.
Chatfield said people had “conflated” Holiday’s ban with her post, but stressed that “no clear reason” had been given for the decision. “I also want to make it clear Adam hadn’t even seen this video,” she added. “So any vitriol toward him is unwarranted.”
Peking Duk are due to release their debut album, Paradise, on August 14. In announcing it, the Canberra duo said: “After 16 amazing years, Adam and I have made the difficult decision to end this chapter of our lives…But deep down we know it’s time for us to evolve. So we finally made a move we thought we’d never make. We recorded an album.”
Elsewhere this week, Mark Hamill deleted an AI-generated image of Trump dead in a grave, captioned “If Only.” The White House called Hamill a “deranged lunatic.” Rod Stewart also told King Charles to “put that little ratbag in his place,” referring to the President.
Trump, meanwhile, claimed his dance moves to Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”, which he called the “gay national anthem,” had kept the song at the top of the charts “for months.”
