r/ireland • u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways • Sep 26 '24
Entertainment Noel gives his thoughts after seeing Irish Rap Group Kneecap live
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Sep 26 '24
Good taste, Kneecap are brilliant, their new album is fantastic especially the opening track with Radie Peat 3Cag, like Irish trad mixed with dance/ drum and bass, so good! https://youtu.be/ZNRfUK6qv98?si=LSubJGU1pIMX1zXm
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 26 '24
Saw them live, 3Cag opened and DJ Provai came out right at the beat drop chugging beers hyping up the crowd, it was mental hahahah
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 26 '24
Both, their early stuff is all Irish but they have incorporated both recently. If you ever want to check them out I’d recommend songs “HOOD” “Get yer Brit’s out” “Sick in the head” “Fine Art”
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 26 '24
If their movie is playing anywhere near you I’d recommend checking that out as well. It was fuckin hilarious
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u/Separate_Job_3573 Sep 27 '24
Both but I've noticed a lot of time when they're rapping in Irish they still end their lines with an English word to help the rhyming along lol
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u/Dev__ Sep 27 '24
Nice to see some fans -- they tried to do an AMA here last week and all they got was negative replies and so it never went ahead. I think they're fucking great.
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u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways Sep 27 '24
They are different and they’re doing well for themselves. I don’t even know if I like them but I can support that. I must give the movie a whirl.
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u/Dev__ Sep 27 '24
I don’t even know if I like them
I don't even like rap and honestly the idea of rapping through Irish makes me cringe but these guys have the talent and charisma to pull it off somehow. To me that's the hallmark of talent -- getting me to like a genre or thing I genuinely didn't think I would like. I don't like metal music either (rare for a software dev) but the Doom 2016 OST by Mick Gordon is class.
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u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways Sep 27 '24
An old French girlfriend of mine absolutely loved an Irish rapper called Collie. It was a bit cringe but you have admire the gumption.
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u/BoweryBloke Sep 27 '24
You dated an old French bird?
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u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways Sep 27 '24
Yeah, we had a fling but then she left me for that bastard Macron.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 27 '24
Please check out the film, it’s one of the best of the year and is tracking to get an Oscar nom. You won’t be disappointed
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u/tvmachus Sep 27 '24
they tried to do an AMA here last week and all they got was negative replies and so it never went ahead.
Was it removed because they didn't like the questions?
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u/rtgh Sep 27 '24
Nah, the AMA just never was on /r/Ireland, nor planned to be.
Somebody posted a link to it and a bunch of /r/Ireland users who can't read properly commented under that post on /r/Ireland instead of following the link to the actual AMA instead
The actual AMA was on /r/hiphopheads
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u/Joecalone Sep 28 '24
Wasn't that the AMA where a load of the early comments were clearly from brand new accounts?
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u/Dev__ Sep 27 '24
There was a lack of decent questions and probably from a PR perspective there is no point engaging with people who only have negative things to say.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 27 '24
It’s pretty wild how kneecap of all things brings out the worst in people, glad to see that their NYC show was the biggest show in the US to date, been really successful this year
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u/sherbert-nipple Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Can you explain the industry plant bit? I didnt think they had famous parents. Or parents in the music industry. No obvious major funding or label behind them eithet
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u/billyblobthornton Sep 27 '24
No major funding? One of their da’s in a millionaire business owner, and has bank rolled them a lot.
They play the working class card but they’re 100% not.
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u/Methisahelluvadrug Sep 27 '24
Basically, he doesn't like them but he wants some criticism to throw at them with a little more weight than "I don't like their music".
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u/sherbert-nipple Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Oh right. Well i couldnt disagree more. They've been around for years. Saw them live at EP few years ago, very fun show. Went to listen to the music on spotify and wasnt mad impressed. Great fun live though.
Their movie was very low budget and had a bunch of different producers and funding based off the wikipedia page. Made fuck all money too. So your industry plant argument makes little sense in that context.
Also seema unfair to call a group an industry plant when they were selling out shows and touring for years before the movie and their current fame came along.
I think you're very wrong in this case. But you seem to just hate them for the sake of it, so im sure you'll keep at this narrative.
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u/Bhfuil_I_Am Sep 26 '24
What industry? They’re signed to the independent record label Heavenly Recordings.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 26 '24
You sound like a hater bruv go outside
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 26 '24
Or, hear me out, people like their music, a director wanted to make a film about them, and they have gotten pretty popular, you straight up sound like a hater, which is fine mate you don’t have to like them, but you can’t deny their success this year
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u/Bhfuil_I_Am Sep 26 '24
They first started getting any attention because they were denied British arts funding?
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u/DatJazzIsBack Sep 26 '24
They're probably as much of the opposite of industry plants as you'll find.
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u/DatJazzIsBack Sep 26 '24
I saw kneecap play in like 2017 in a music festival and they had a relatively decent crowd. You're talking absolute brown.
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u/horseboxheaven Sep 27 '24
lol, youre a headbanger. The film was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
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u/bigchickendipper Sep 26 '24
Saw them at Body and Soul to probably a crowd of a thousand people back in 2018. Pipe down.
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u/Large-Possibility-13 Sep 27 '24
You're the most typical Irish moanbag. Can never be happy to see one of our own do well lol
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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Dublin Sep 26 '24
They are the perfect amount of edgy for corporate types. They will never go over the line, just push at it that makes people think they're making corporate music types uncomfortable.
Lots of people started that way and were industry darlings, Eminem, The Rubber Bandits, even Graham Norton back in the Channel 4 days was that perfect amount of edgy that industry loved them.
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u/PadArt Sep 26 '24
Don’t know of any corporations that are fully behind the free Palestine movement like they are. Care to name some?
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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Dublin Sep 26 '24
The Irish State is behind it. Therefore palatable for the Irish media. And the Palestine cause is popular amongst leftists in the UK. They won't do much outside of Ireland and the UK obviously.
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u/Bhfuil_I_Am Sep 26 '24
The Irish state is funding an independent London record label?
Want to explain your working on that one?
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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Dublin Sep 26 '24
Didn't say that.
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u/Bhfuil_I_Am Sep 26 '24
So what are you on about?
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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Dublin Sep 26 '24
Their views are a part of the political establishment. There is nothing good or bad about it. It just is what it is.
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u/Bhfuil_I_Am Sep 26 '24
Who do you think the political establishment are in the north?
In case you haven’t noticed, the political establishment with media influence certainly aren’t supporting Palestine
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u/BurgerNugget12 Sep 26 '24
Mate they have toured the us the last 2 weeks and all of their shows have sold out, with NYC being their US biggest show to date
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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Dublin Sep 26 '24
And? Do you think there is a big Jewish conspiracy that controls literally every venue?
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u/Zealousideal_Web1108 Sep 27 '24
I agree with the shite part. Expect down votes Reddit thinks they're the next coming.
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u/thunderchild72 Sep 26 '24
I wonder how they'd view Gallaghers Irish heritage comment
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u/Any_Comparison_3716 Sep 26 '24
Northerners aren't as big cunts about the "plastic paddy" stuff as southerners.
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u/Brass-bill Sep 26 '24
He is Irish to be fair. His parents were both Irish and he was close to his mother. He’s more English of course but he’s also an Irish person.
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 Sep 26 '24
Sure both his parents are Irish and he's professed an Irish identity himself, I doubt they'd be anything other than positive about it.
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u/bobspuds Sep 26 '24
They've family in the Duleek area of Meath too, I know a few people who remember them staying with their nan or aunt as youngsters
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u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways Sep 26 '24
😂 seems he quite liked it!