Irish Band Kneecap Is as Punk as a Doily
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As an Irish-American, every so often I like to check out the current music scene in the home of my ancestors. Just to remind myself how lucky I am to live elsewhere.
Just about a year ago, I was delighted and enthralled by a “musician” calling herself Bambie Thug, who I referred to as “a woodland sprite who is also a Nazi.”
Ms. Thug made international news last year not because of her talent, which is negligible, but because of her seething hatred of Jews. This was her reaction to an Israeli singer advancing further in the Eurovision Song Contest than she did:
Okay, so she’s not the most articulate fascist who has ever made sore your eyes, but she’s certainly sincere.
And now we have this year’s version: a Belfast band called Kneecap, who modestly describe themselves as a “frighteningly articulate rap group.”
Let’s have a listen!
Articulate indeed. Frighteningly so.
And yes, if you know anything about Northern Ireland, these musical geniuses did name themselves after the terrorist practice of “kneecapping.”
So, what are these tough guys doing these days? Whining, that’s what.
Last week at Coachella, these dummies put up signs like this during their show:
It’s the exact same message you’ll get from other white supremacists all over the world. But there are no MAGA hats or tiki torches, so our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press don’t consider it antisemitism.
Nonetheless, this childish outburst caused the sort of controversy the band obviously wants to court. Strangely, the lads don’t seem to be enjoying it.
Irish rappers Kneecap have denied supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and publicly apologized to the families of two murdered British lawmakers as the hip-hop trio continue to face public backlash for political views they've expressed at their concerts…
Kneecap's statement came after U.K. police said that they were investigating video related to a Kneecap concert from 2024 in which one of the band's members appears to shout, "up Hamas, up Hezbollah…"
U.K. police also said they were reviewing video from a concert in 2023 in which one Kneecap member appears to call for killing Conservative party lawmakers, who are often known as Tories, by saying on stage: "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP."
You can read Kneecap’s manifesto about the controversy here, if you think that’s a good use of your time. It’s dishonest from beginning to end. They deny supporting the terrorists they’ve openly supported, deny making the death threats they’ve openly made, and spew their bogus rationale for hating Israel for defending itself from terrorism.
Just say you hate Jews, lads.
I mean, they posted this pic just two months ago:
Yes, they support Hezbollah.
Should they be prosecuted for it? Not in my opinion. As human beings, they have the right to speak freely, no matter how stupid that speech is. But lying about what they said isn’t going to help them.
These little boys had a lot of fun cosplaying as radicals, but they folded like a birthday card the minute they got any pushback. I’ll never agree with anybody who supports terrorism, but at least I can respect someone who sticks to his principles no matter who doesn’t like it.
You can’t even say these stupid bitches lack the courage of their convictions, because they have none. They just want to be famous, and now they’re horrified that they’re infamous.
I don’t claim to know what constitutes “punk” in 2025, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include groveling for forgiveness while claiming you didn’t mean what you said. All because you’re scared you won’t make more money.
To use a phrase these losers may understand: Buinneach dhearg go dtigidh ort.
Speaking of Nazis: Happy 80th anniversary to the best thing Adolf Hitler ever did!
I’ve always appreciated that he took a cyanide pill and then shot himself in the head. No half-measures with that guy.
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Yeah. I estimate, based only on my experience, that 98% of those males who present themselves as radicals are giant pussies. The female radicals I have known over the decades fall into several categories -- True Believers, for the moment at least, of whatever the current popular thing is. Then there are those who just want to be part of a group that proves to their parents that the parents can no longer control them. There are the ugly and or fat chicks who cannot get a guy or accepted into a sorority or any of the groups they would kill to be in. There are the confused, not-so-bright girls who are looking for non-parent to give them direction. There are others --
The males generally consist of one or two kind of alpha males who have failed in attempts to lead other groups, so they create their own group by being relatively outrageous <see above female groupies list>, and when successful attract beta and lower-ranking males who are in it for the possibility of sex, and because they are natural followers, who more than likely havent been allowed in other groups.
IOW, most radical groups are full of beta-gamma males and the damaged females who will have ex with them.
Sounds to me like the members of Kneecap.
As a followup, my first experience with radical groups was in 1966-7 or maybe 1967-8 at Univ of Illinois. I had mustered out in June 1996 and Lefties already had their undies bunched due to the huge draft numbers. They really didnt like it when I wore my old military stuff, but I was poor, and not about to buy new clothes I didnt actually need.
An amorphous bunch of vaguely anti-war types had an older, male grad student who told them he was Vic Berkey and he was from Berkeley and from that moment on he was the radical leader.
I am pretty sure there were never as many as 500 hard care members, in a school with at least 35,000 students, but they got an enormous amont of local press.
Also, most of the males deserately didnt want to get drafted. I didnt blame them, but they were still pussies. I was astounded when I found out my 4-F status <discharged due to injuries that left me unable to fulfill duties> would allow me to be drafted before a college student with a 1-S ,or were college students 2-S> status.
He railed against The Man a lot, but without telling them he was married with two children to a woman who had a job as a teacher in a nearby small town. He was wildly admired by all the women in the group. And the men who got access to the women he didnt want.
His second-in-command was a weasel-looking small guy who seemed to function as a gatekeeper, deciding who got access to Vic. He got first choice of Vics rejects abd discards.
After thet there aeared to be a lot of ugly people buming uglies and smoking dope. Although there we speed freaks on campus I never saw any harder drug usage among the anti-war radicals.
Anyway, I doubt if the general composition of radical grous has changed a whole lot.