Former TURNSTILE guitarist Brady Ebert has publicly leveled serious accusations at his former bandmates, reigniting interest in the circumstances surrounding his departure from the band in 2022.
The comments came in response to a recent post on TURNSTILE‘s Instagram story featuring a sign reading “abolish ICE”, which was reshared by Jesea Lee. Ebert took to the comment section to call out what he sees as the band’s performative politics and lack of ethical concern.
“Lmao, no one in turnstile cares at all about ethics or social issues in general, they’re just pandering to their audience,” Ebert wrote.
He also alleged financial misconduct tied to one of Turnstile’s early benefit shows:
“At turnstiles first free show they did they claimed all proceeds go to healthcare for the homeless, we raised 10000 dollars but i watched Brendan [Yates, TURNSTILE frontman] steal 4000 dollars from that and claim he needed to ‘pay the merch bill’ which was false.”
Ebert’s remarks have sparked renewed conversation about his exit from the band, which was widely reported as contentious. At the time of his departure, it was reported that drummer Daniel Fang had filed a restraining order against Ebert, though details were scarce.
Addressing that episode directly, Ebert pushed back against the reports in a follow-up comment: “Also my friends filed a restraining order and guess what, they had two laywers with them abd I showed up to court bt myself and the judge DENIED the restraining order,” he wrote. “Because there was no statute in the laws about what qualifies for a restraining order that they were able to meet the requirements of.”
He added: “In other words they had no reason to file it and it was all over text messages which they showed the judge and the judge agreed with me without me even having to testify so next time before u spread bulls**t misinformation say that s**t to my face.”
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