Maybe not an appropriate place to bring this up, but why would they be so sensitive to that? I'm not familiar with the band, are they Sri Lankan? Otherwise that just seems a bit random.
Cool poster...
BUT, I was told by M.I.A.'s management that they did not want any kind of tiger imagery whatsoever, because of the incidents that involved to Tamil Tiger Rebel Army over the last couple of months. They rejected my poster I was going to do for the show in DC, because of tiger imagery. Just sayin...