So, the IFTA just happened and my favorite thing to come out of it is this linkup.
For everyone who doesn't know (and I assume it's a lot since Kneecap ain't exactly a household name yet), they're an Irish-Language hip hop group from Belfast. Kneecap focus most of their energy on promoting the irish language and are very, very vocally republican (as in, irish republican, not the american one. very different).
They rap about things like police brutality and working-class struggles in NI, and they've pissed off a lot of English and loyalists… unsurprisingly, since they use IRA slogans, compare the police to the RUC (pre-peace state police force)… and one of the members literally wears a tri-colour balaclava. Like, Kneecap was awarded a publicly-funded arts grant recently, but it was taken back by the government because they didn't want to fund "people that oppose the United Kingdom itself."
Re: the picture. Cillian Murphy famously says no to most photographs, so I'm always interested in who he says yes to. He's been clear hes supports united Ireland/Sinn Féin, and his wife went public on insta recently seemly just to post about Palestine, and he's obsessed with music, so I'm not surprised he's cool with them, but there's a video of him doing a little supportive fist pump thing for them and Móglaí Bap looking all starstruck after they all took the picture, so it seems Murphy's actually a fan.
Anyway, I always find it fun when 2 people/groups I'm a fan of turn out to be fans of each other, so I thought I'd bring it here in case there's any overlap between Kneecap fans and this sub.
“The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people.”
Take it down from the mast… pic.twitter.com/U2pIa6iRsh
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) April 20, 2024
by dontforgettopanic
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One thing we know for sure about Cillian is that he loses his complete mind about music (said with affection)
I assume this is the inspiration for their name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecapping
Thank you for this mini pop culture lesson!! Really enjoyed learning something new today – from the band to what his wife has been posting!
isn’t this the same group that wore a Palestine Jersey on a talk show?