Jona Weinhofen, a member of the Australian metal band I Killed The Prom Queen which was detained in Kuala Lumpur, revealed they were made to play for Malaysian immigration officers before being released.

He said this was after having spent two nights in a crowded cell measuring about 15 sq ft and sleeping on the floor where toilet water was flowing.

"Probably the most offensive thing that occurred was when we were finally released and we were in the offices upstairs with the people from the embassy, and a couple of guards approached us and said that they had a rehearsal room within the office with band equipment, and they insisted that we perform a song for them.

"So we had just spent two nights sleeping on cold, piss-soaked tiles, among 35 other prisoners being treated like garbage, and then we got brought upstairs and told that we had to play a song for the people who had just incarcerated us. And we did.

"The only reason we did, and we didn’t refuse, was because we were essentially still in their care, and we didn’t want to risk anything else bad happening to us," he said in an interview with Australian magazine BluntMag.

The band was detained on Saturday after performing without a permit.

Weinhofen said the band had engaged a local promoter which claimed they need not have a permit to perform.

"We were pretty diligent with asking and trying to really make 100 percent sure that that was the way it worked over there, and the answer that we kept getting back from the promoter and the booking agent was, 'No, you don’t need a work permit here'," he said.

While in detention, Weinhofen said the band members had to remove their shoes and underwear.

He added that they were only given a cup of rice to eat and 10 litres of water to be shared out of a plastic bag among 35 people in their cell each day.

"Two nights were really, really bad for us. We spoke to some of the guys in there who had been detained for two or three months, so that was another thing that worried us.

"Yeah, we’d been told that we could be held for up to 14 days, but there’s these other guys in here saying, 'Yeah, we’ve been in here for two months, and we were told we’d be here for 14 days as well'.

"I don’t know what we would have done if we were in there for any longer than we already were.

"It’s given me a whole new appreciation for refugees, and immigrants in general, people who are in those sorts of conditions anywhere in the world," he said.

Weinhofen said the band was finally released on Monday after the Australian High Commission intervened but not before having to play for the immigration officers.

Despite being upset at the promoter for their ordeal, Weinhofen said the band is not planning to take legal action as the company was already facing prosecution from Malaysian authorities.

"It was just one of those things where there was a miscommunication between several different groups of people, and it ended up with us being incarcerated in some pretty horrible conditions for a couple of days," he said.