This is what happens when dumbasses would rather worship politicians and the wealthy who don’t give a fuck about them, instead of joining with someone who looks/talks different than them or has different opinions to protect liberty and push back against oppression.
Thinking differently from the herd is now the greatest crime known to internet-brained humanity.
i love this so much. If only every band (and writer) stood ten toes down on this. If you have trepidation in taking a position, you will eventually be forced to.
Technically it Gaelic that they using, they are huge proponents of bringing back the indigenous language after it was attempted by the British to force the English language on the Gaelic speaking peoples the same the British had squelched out the Scottish version of Gaelic centuries prior by changing the names of places in the beginning of their colonization & then outlawing the language to be spoken in public or taught in schools or used in any correspondence…while the effort somewhat failed, there were less fluent Gaelic speakers since the troubles & one of the points that Kneecap has been committed to from the onset is having a Gaelic predominance in the language they are trying to use…I get what you’re saying, the reactionary stance of todays Trump Conservatives is a throwback to John Birch Society standards that reverberate in the early days of punk rock & hip hop culture where it was exaggerated into a threat on the level of terrorism, the rhetoric of using ‘terrorism’ to label anything anti-mainstream did not have the traction back then, US was still somewhat insulated from the attempts to disrupt society that had been going on in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, we hadn’t really felt terrorism here, it was news, even when US citizens were involved in situations overseas, to most folks who never left the US it was still an abject event in many ways, as we know it gradually infiltrated our country, most profoundly on 9/11 & since, so now the label is useful in suspending due process & the current regime is not the first to use the ‘terrorist’ to strip away access & due process, it had been happening in the margins to folks we were told deserved it & everyone bought into it, no it has become mainstream, it happened to people at Coachella (an event that reaps fortunes by charging access to a festival area that was livestock storage for over 100 years, every cloud of dust kicked up there is mostly manure particles) which has become the most iconic pop culture music fest in existence, idk, it’s a watermark for the attempt to use an expansion of the post911 era panopticonic doublespeak labeling to attempt to get folks to not talk about the current genocidal activities afoot in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon & Syria & any other place that there are armed groups which have been fighting a long & drawn attempt to keep their existence from being erased…I understand that the history of how Jewish people have been treated has many of them, Zionists especially, feel that they have no choice but to eradicate another group or groups of people in order to have an imaginary kingdom returned to them that would prevent any genocide against them from ever happening again…that is why they are using every bit of influence & power to stifle any rhetoric that questions the genocidal aspects of their operation as ‘terrorist’ even if the questioning is being done by other Jewish people or people who have empathy for the history of the Jewish plight & their targeting over many centuries as a people that have been visited by many terrible genocidal acts themselves…it’s a quagmire that has been secretly fed mostly by British (again why Kneecap is inspired to weigh in on it so heavily) & US weaponry & intelligence support, all while our politicians pretend to seek peace agreements, which has created a huge moral double standard in our time, mainly because there was always a contingent of very right wing Christian conservatives that have known that the core Zionist goals were to create a diaspora for anyone in the area of Ben Gurion’s Greater Israel, it was never to coexist with anyone inside those boundaries, ever, which can be argued was a terrorist plot from 100 yr ago, that we’ve been told over & over was not going to happen, all while groups of special interests in corporate oil & Christian Evangelicalism created power enclaves to ensure we would get to this point so they could all just say it was a point of no return, it would be terrorism to call it genocidal…
100%! Bummer you missed them in between Coachella weekends - saw them with Soft Play and they were awesome. I also wasn’t sure that they’d be let in before week 1. glad they were able to do the shows and use their platform, which wasn’t just visual. They took about 5 minutes before their last song at ours, to speak up about their solidarity with Palestine
Love it. Truest example of “Punk’s Not Dead”
Absolutely!
Stunned they allowed Kneecap in to the States but not UK Subs.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/uk-subs-band-detained-deported
Right? That's what made me think they wouldn't let Kneecap in.
This all day and tomorrow, sir.
Aye, aye!
This is what happens when dumbasses would rather worship politicians and the wealthy who don’t give a fuck about them, instead of joining with someone who looks/talks different than them or has different opinions to protect liberty and push back against oppression.
Thinking differently from the herd is now the greatest crime known to internet-brained humanity.
Great article. Here's a nice companion piece https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/66688/1/5-rappers-government-kneecap-onefour-drill-mia-nwa-lowkey
i love this so much. If only every band (and writer) stood ten toes down on this. If you have trepidation in taking a position, you will eventually be forced to.
100%
Technically it Gaelic that they using, they are huge proponents of bringing back the indigenous language after it was attempted by the British to force the English language on the Gaelic speaking peoples the same the British had squelched out the Scottish version of Gaelic centuries prior by changing the names of places in the beginning of their colonization & then outlawing the language to be spoken in public or taught in schools or used in any correspondence…while the effort somewhat failed, there were less fluent Gaelic speakers since the troubles & one of the points that Kneecap has been committed to from the onset is having a Gaelic predominance in the language they are trying to use…I get what you’re saying, the reactionary stance of todays Trump Conservatives is a throwback to John Birch Society standards that reverberate in the early days of punk rock & hip hop culture where it was exaggerated into a threat on the level of terrorism, the rhetoric of using ‘terrorism’ to label anything anti-mainstream did not have the traction back then, US was still somewhat insulated from the attempts to disrupt society that had been going on in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, we hadn’t really felt terrorism here, it was news, even when US citizens were involved in situations overseas, to most folks who never left the US it was still an abject event in many ways, as we know it gradually infiltrated our country, most profoundly on 9/11 & since, so now the label is useful in suspending due process & the current regime is not the first to use the ‘terrorist’ to strip away access & due process, it had been happening in the margins to folks we were told deserved it & everyone bought into it, no it has become mainstream, it happened to people at Coachella (an event that reaps fortunes by charging access to a festival area that was livestock storage for over 100 years, every cloud of dust kicked up there is mostly manure particles) which has become the most iconic pop culture music fest in existence, idk, it’s a watermark for the attempt to use an expansion of the post911 era panopticonic doublespeak labeling to attempt to get folks to not talk about the current genocidal activities afoot in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon & Syria & any other place that there are armed groups which have been fighting a long & drawn attempt to keep their existence from being erased…I understand that the history of how Jewish people have been treated has many of them, Zionists especially, feel that they have no choice but to eradicate another group or groups of people in order to have an imaginary kingdom returned to them that would prevent any genocide against them from ever happening again…that is why they are using every bit of influence & power to stifle any rhetoric that questions the genocidal aspects of their operation as ‘terrorist’ even if the questioning is being done by other Jewish people or people who have empathy for the history of the Jewish plight & their targeting over many centuries as a people that have been visited by many terrible genocidal acts themselves…it’s a quagmire that has been secretly fed mostly by British (again why Kneecap is inspired to weigh in on it so heavily) & US weaponry & intelligence support, all while our politicians pretend to seek peace agreements, which has created a huge moral double standard in our time, mainly because there was always a contingent of very right wing Christian conservatives that have known that the core Zionist goals were to create a diaspora for anyone in the area of Ben Gurion’s Greater Israel, it was never to coexist with anyone inside those boundaries, ever, which can be argued was a terrorist plot from 100 yr ago, that we’ve been told over & over was not going to happen, all while groups of special interests in corporate oil & Christian Evangelicalism created power enclaves to ensure we would get to this point so they could all just say it was a point of no return, it would be terrorism to call it genocidal…
100%! Bummer you missed them in between Coachella weekends - saw them with Soft Play and they were awesome. I also wasn’t sure that they’d be let in before week 1. glad they were able to do the shows and use their platform, which wasn’t just visual. They took about 5 minutes before their last song at ours, to speak up about their solidarity with Palestine
Pomona - def lucked out at onsale, bc they went fast!
Where did you see them? I was hoping to go see them in Pomona but didn't act fast enough.
Fuck yeah, Jim