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’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,” 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’t want to listen to post-punk and hear about the cost of living crisis any more.”

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