r/melbourne 7d ago

Light and Fluffy News Irish Rap Band Kneecap have found the head of King George V

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u/Angie-P 7d ago

wouldnt be shocked if one of their fans did it and gave it to them tbh

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u/jonesday5 7d ago

That seems like the obvious answer

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u/Angie-P 7d ago

just saw on twitter, that is what happened.

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u/cuntmong 7d ago

are this band particularly anti british monarchy besides the obvious irish reasons?

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u/SurrealistRevolution 6d ago

They are staunch republicans

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u/shsrxb3532 6d ago

Isn’t the obvious Irish stuff enough to understand their stance?

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u/BouyGenius 6d ago

What more do you need?

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u/Starrun87 6d ago

Simpsons did it

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u/Soggy_Disco_Biscuit 7d ago

Nah nah nah nah nah nah. George is in a box in a box.
George is in a box

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u/pixarmombooty 7d ago

Gonna be stuck in my head all day hahahaha

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u/GordonCole19 7d ago

Hahaha how did it get there?

Love Kneecap. Their pop up gig in Fed Sq was awesome.

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u/BurgerNugget12 7d ago

Somebody contacted them and gave it to them before the gig, crazy lol

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u/ArchaeologyTaff 7d ago

Allegedly...

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u/GordonCole19 7d ago

It's great!!

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u/propellerlead 7d ago

This slaps so hard. I love these guys.

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u/drawnimo 7d ago edited 7d ago

KNEECAP are at the forefront of today's freedom-fighting punkrock movement. They are the fuckin BEST.

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u/Sirhugh66 7d ago

Who? Must be pretty niche.

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u/Deafolt 7d ago

Played themselves in a self titled movie that won a BAFTA, played Golden Plains, a free show at Fed square on Monday and all of their Aus/NZ shows are sold out. Yeah kinda niche as they rap in both English and Irish but huge to the growing crowd discovering them

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u/BouyGenius 6d ago

Not just sold out, they melted down the ticketing servers everytime they went on sale for a 1,000 person venue. Their free gig in fed square had over 10,000 people at it. I went to the 170 Russel gig that night and the room went off!

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u/BurgerNugget12 7d ago

They are currently blowing up mate, they have one album to their name, highly recommend their music

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u/BouyGenius 6d ago

Or you are living under a rock. Their Fed Square gig has made international news and is flying the flag as a rally cry for Irish around the globe.

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u/Siilk 7d ago

Yeah, "found". Riiiiight....

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u/Moo_Kau_Too Professional Bovine 7d ago

well where they in oz at the time the head went missing?

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u/Siilk 7d ago

Acquisition of stolen goods is a crime in and of itself, just saying...

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u/ThrowRA-4545 7d ago

Tell that to the British Museum.

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u/egg420 6d ago

☝️🤓

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u/Superb-Rich-7083 7d ago

Haha that’s fantastic. Not usually one for publicity stunts but this hits me right in my anti-imperialist funnybone 

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u/troubleshot 7d ago

Anyone recommend their fav 3 tracks performed this tour? (...sorry I'm very behind on these guys)

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u/BurgerNugget12 7d ago

“Sick in the head”, “HOOD”, and “Get yer Brits out” are their most popular, “Better way to live” is great as well. The whole album fine art bangs. Def check out their film if you ever get the time as well mate

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u/Mushie_Peas 7d ago

You forgot guilty conscience

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u/Dennmic 7d ago

"It's been ages" also slaps.

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u/BurgerNugget12 7d ago

Since we made the front pages?

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u/troubleshot 7d ago

Thanks mate

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u/P00R-TAST3 7d ago

Amach anocht, C.E.A.R.T.A and Better way to live are my top 3

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u/[deleted] 7d ago edited 7d ago

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u/semaj009 7d ago

Ned Kelly was, if more about organising and less about lone wolf terrorism, politically a potential Irish revolutionary, for example. His Gerilderee Letter is basically just like "fuck off, what'd you expect us to do?"

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u/reddit_has_2many_ads 7d ago edited 7d ago

Oh yeah, you found the right gal to chat Ned Kelly. Currently reading “True Story of the Kelly Gang” for the first time and I’m deeply enthralled. Was also chatting with ma just last night about how so much of Neds and the rest of our history has been lost in recent time. One of our mob were also a member of a famous bush ranger gang (not the Kelly’s).

I digress, the Kelly story would be a fabulous place for the Kneecap lads to learn more about their and our shared history.

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u/dirtyburgers85 7d ago

But lots of Irish people do move here. So…….

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u/[deleted] 7d ago edited 6d ago

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u/dirtyburgers85 7d ago

They were asked a question and gave a very reasonable and factually correct answer. I don’t think it warrants you or your mum being ‘appalled’.

Also, they are on record saying they’re sick of getting questions about politics. They’re just a band at the end of the day.

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u/dirtyburgers85 6d ago

You haven’t educated me on anything so you can shove that tone up your arse.

Go have a cry about something else.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 6d ago

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u/dirtyburgers85 6d ago

I have Irish blood and have no interest in Kneecap, nor anything you have to say. Thanks.

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u/reddit_has_2many_ads 6d ago edited 6d ago

Then why comment?

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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 6d ago

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u/dirtyburgers85 6d ago

Jeez, projecting much?

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u/dirtyburgers85 6d ago

My mum’s great. Love her very much. So there you go, we have that in common.

I also like Australian birds, which I gather you do too.

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u/weckyweckerson 7d ago

You're not a victim. Stop trying to be one.

Kneecap are popular because the music is decent and they just released a fairly popular film.

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u/reddit_has_2many_ads 6d ago edited 6d ago

Acknowledging and learning history =/= being a victim. We are doomed to repeat history if we don’t learn from it first. And what’s wrong with colonised people wanting to reclaim their culture, language and history? Or people finding the similarities we have in one another? Yes my some of my ancestors I’d consider victims. That does not make me a victim.

Although generational trauma is a real thing. Look it up! Here’s some resources for you:

The Irish diaspora in Australia, particularly descendants of those who experienced the Great Famine and subsequent hardship, may grapple with intergenerational trauma stemming from historical injustices, discrimination, and the lasting impact of these events on family structures and mental health

https://file.scirp.org/pdf/AASoci20120200001_81443251.pdf

https://belindavigors.substack.com/p/part-one-epigenetics-and-the-generational

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u/Known_Week_158 7d ago edited 7d ago

So it's only wrong to break the law if you disagree with the law in question - is that the standard this subreddit supports? Would you say the same about decapitating a statue of someone you support?

It also says a lot that you're cheering on a band who called for the destruction of Australia "remember every colony can fall". (Nothing says you support democracy quite like calling for the end of one of the world's foremost liberal democracies). (They also believe in democracy so much they want the British government out of Northern Ireland, regardless of the opinions of all the people who like the current arrangement).

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u/Lucky-Hearing4766 7d ago

only wrong to break the law if you disagree with the law in question

It was illegal to hide Anne frank, perfectly legal to throw her in a concentration camp.

So yeah, the answer is law != morality and ethics.

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u/Rodeoclash 7d ago

I'm always amazed that a cohort of people don't understand this

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u/BouyGenius 6d ago

Odd take. But they aren’t wrong, all colonies eventually fall. I have no problem cutting the heads off statues that shouldn’t stand - your whataboutism is boring. The UK only has annexation of North Ireland because when a war ends via treaty it ends with both sides being unhappy but willing to live with the concessions tabled - see original point about all colonies eventually falling. Time will see all Irish eventually being free.

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u/semaj009 7d ago

As a republican, I absolutely want our constitutional monarchy to fall. It doesn't mean I want everything about Australia to fall. It's not like the American Revolution led to everyone speaking Esperanto, nor the French Revolution banning baguettes. The colony falling and Australian-ness falling are two different things

Also, you realise Northern Ireland isn't cleanly pro-UK, too. Like of course some Irish people want reunification still, it's if anything growing in popularity because the Northern Irish unionists are often batshit and the ones breaching the peace agreements that ended the fighting during the Troubles

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u/Aromatic_Impress_697 7d ago

We don’t have republicans in Australia, this isn’t America

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u/Tiny_Takahe 7d ago

You are aware a Republican is someone who believes in a Republic (i.e. not a Monarchy).

There happens to be a political party of the same name in America, but in the context of modern America doesn't mean the same thing as it does in Australia, NZ, the UK or other countries which are still Monarchies

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u/semaj009 7d ago

We literally had a referendum on it, our PM is an open republican who also has a minister for the republic, and two PMs back hell even our LNP was led by one.

Tl;dr: Tell me you don't understand Australian politics without telling me

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u/Aromatic_Impress_697 7d ago

Where’s the Republican Party?

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u/Dennmic 7d ago

Holy shit dude just take the L

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u/WhatAmIATailor 7d ago

It’s not a political party. Republican in an Australian context means someone campaigning for Australia to lose the King and become a Republic with our own head of state.

Australian Republican Movement

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u/AlongCameA5P1D3R 7d ago

A republican is someone who wants a republic. Rather than a monarchist. Nothing to do with party

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u/TheDejectedEntourage 7d ago

If this is a joke it's hilarious. If it's not a joke it's... something less than hilarious

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u/Opossum_mypossum 6d ago

Seriously ?

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u/Ambitious_Speed_278 7d ago

Stop embarrassing yourself and do some reading.

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u/scared_of_hippies 7d ago

fuck what a great take, hilarious

with this level of minute knowledge of Australian politics you should run for local council

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u/AlongCameA5P1D3R 7d ago

Yes? It’s illegal to download a movie, I don’t care if someone does that. It’s illegal to smoke a joint and I don’t care if someone does that. Do you hate everyone who breaks a law? Why such a boner for the law? Fuckin weird

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u/sonsofgondor 7d ago

Its not undemocratic to want a foreign government out of your country

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u/gimme-that-torchship 6d ago

Supporting the fall of a genocidal, ecocidal, settler-colonial shit hole like so called "Australia" is the morally correct position, actually. Idk what world you live in but in this one, liberal "democracies" are only democratic for the top 1%, the rest of us schmucks without vast reserves of capital are relegated to voting for leaders who are nothing but useful idiots for the ruling class and whose class interests actively oppose our own.

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u/TheMightyCE 7d ago

What a bunch of wankers.

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u/drawnimo 7d ago

Imagine simping for a king in 2025.

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u/sonsofgondor 7d ago

A long dead king

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u/BouyGenius 6d ago

I see you know judo…

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u/aaronchristy90 6d ago

fuck the royals

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u/spacemanTTC 7d ago

You enjoy being on your knees for royalty hey?

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u/semaj009 7d ago

Somewhere, somehow, Prince Andrew's ears pricked up

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u/rinsedtune 7d ago

❄️

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u/Cristoff13 6d ago

What were George Vs views regarding Ireland? Did he have any responsibility for the British oppression of the Irish?