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,” Grian Chatten of Dublin’s Fontaines DC told the Sunday Times recently.
- 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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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
