.webp?x=8 "Top Hat (kek) - Technically a top hat, shut up")
"wait no, why aren't you giving me free money anymore?" 
KNEECAP STATEMENT
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) February 8, 2024
Weβve been blocked from receiving significant music funding because a Tory Minister doesnβt like our art.
F*ck the Tories pic.twitter.com/xWWUdGNj5l
Kneecap are cringe wigger larpers from Belfast that I assume no one else here will have heard of.
One of the members always wears a balaclava that looks like it was knitted by his nan for some reason
Their "unique" selling point is they are Irish communists who like drugs and hate Britain (what a fresh and exciting new perspective)
Their name comes from one of the IRA's signature moves
Kneecapping is considered a "trademark" of the IRA, although it became less popular over time because the disability and mortality incurred was unpopular with the community.
Kneecappings were a weekly occurrence in West Belfast by 1975.
Anyway, they recently applied for a British government grant, were obviously denied and now them and other various undesirables are crying about it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Themiddle03/status/1755591198620741775
https://twitter.com/annie_mcginley/status/1755562792562614735
https://twitter.com/queertyyr/status/1755572278715199816
https://twitter.com/FinnEoghan/status/1755594833325068551
https://twitter.com/cloudcoocoo/status/1755599621387378776
https://twitter.com/SlushMuppyPup23/status/1755549425043112010
https://twitter.com/Setants/status/1755556174634647570
https://twitter.com/coilin81/status/1755549443297038494
https://twitter.com/okra_mom/status/1755549756460298590
Some fellow republicans don't understand why they'd even take the money in the first place though
https://twitter.com/antoj198439/status/1755574514115600578
https://twitter.com/Thejawsofnorth/status/1755557766498755036
https://twitter.com/The_NinjaKnight/status/1755560538178822349
Or that they are a government psy-op
https://twitter.com/palmarcrusader/status/1755566716178890821
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These guys boil my piss, their lead fella is an absolute peepee. A couple of mates of mine went to school with him and he was a massive creep and bully and if anyone called him out or fought back he would threaten them with his family connections, his granny or aunt or someone is a bigshot wealthy lawyer. his whole family are loaded and he keeps up the "i-i'm just a wee working class lad
from belfast 
tellin it like it heckin is!!! 
" front. he used family connections to get the band bankrolled and they dress it up as some bullshit story about how their financier just happened to hear them singing in a pub.
Also I while I'm being a hater I don't understand how anyone can enjoy their music, it's like an old person's idea of what hip-hop is, it just sounds so corny and dated, you half expect them to start their songs with "My name is X and I'm here to say". If you compare them to other modern socially conscious leftoid rap groups like Kid Kapichi the difference is night and day. I guess the Irish language music scene is still mostly dominated by trad groups and hearing something a bit more modern sung
as Gaeilge 
is a bit of a novelty but still.
/seethe
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One of my old flatmates was from Northern Ireland and all him and his mates would listen to was trance or stuff like this
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Theyve got nothing on Craic Boi Mental
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