Irish artists speak truth to power
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\u2019s 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.
- \u201cYou can get a Grammy nomination and you still can't afford to rent a one-bedroom flat in London,\u201d 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\u2019t want to listen to post-punk and hear about the cost of living crisis any more.\u201d
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