Kneecap performing at Glastonbury ‘not appropriate’, says Starmer
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/kneecap-glastonbury-keir-starmer-latest/
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Kneecap performing at Glastonbury ‘not appropriate’, says Starmer
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/kneecap-glastonbury-keir-starmer-latest/
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
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Being complicit and supportive of a genocide is also not appropriate
I didn’t realise Starmer was in charge at Glasto? TIL
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They’re doing brilliantly from all this negative publicity. Selling out venues.
They’d never have done it otherwise as they’re absolute shite, so fair play to them using negative PR to make them rich. They’re playing the game well.
I heard them before all the furore over their politics, and I genuinely thought they were the Norn Irish version of GLC, only GLC actually made some good music. These lads are just piss poor rappers, producers, lyricists, social commentators, whichever way you want to describe them they’re just awful and feeding off the controversy.
They’re more like the Blackout Crew than anything. They just haven’t put a donk on it.
I’m too lazy to actually read an article
Is this something starmer actively decided to say, or was it a question asked by a reporter or something that he *had* to answer.
I feel like there’s a semi important distinction
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Does anyone actually give a shit about any of this? Some IRA cosplayers said some edgy shit at a gig, who cares?
At least Chris Brown is still selling out stadiums.
Luckily, politicians don’t get to decide who should and shouldn’t be allowed to play Glastonbury.
I don’t think it’s appropriate to demonise a band over some hurty words when we’re still complicit in a genocide being carried out by Israel.
I don’t agree with expressing support for Hamas, but let’s get our own house in order first because it’s fucking rich of us as a country to try to take the moral high ground here.
In other news, Chris Brown is performing at Spurs’s stadium tomorrow.
They literally said, “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. ‘Kill your local MP’ and ‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah.'”
This whole thing is such a shit show. I think it is sensible to clarify that regardless of where anyone stands on Israel/Palestine etc Kneecap told people to kill their local MP. I’m not sure how anyone can honestly expect him to say anything other than effectively ‘I do not think it is appropriate for them to have a platform’. Anything else would be political suicide.
Remember when the Labour leader could appear on her main stage at Glastonbury.