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Irish artists speak truth to power

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Today's episode is a bit of a grab bag of news items, but musicians speaking truth to power is a common theme.


Niall and Andrea discuss:

  • Lankum winning the Choice Music Prize and their speech that encouraged the boycott of Israel
  • Kneecap's show of Solidarity with Palestine on the Late Late Show & their US TV debut
  • All the Irish bands including Kneecap who then cancelled their SXSW Festival shows this week in protest at US Military involvement
  • Leo Varadkar wants nothing to do with bringing in the long-proposed Irish nightlife laws any time soon
  • James Blake weighs in on streaming being broken, in a time which increasingly feels like it’s going towards a tipping point
  • The growing crisis in music - How the rising cost of living is affecting bands' ability to create art and make money to live.
  • “You can get a Grammy nomination and you still can't afford to rent a one-bedroom flat in London,” says Grian Chatten of Dublin's Fontaines DC,
  • And the minor furore over an out-of-context use of quote from The Last Dinner Party - "People don’t want to listen to post-punk and hear about the cost of living crisis any more.”


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