PLAY PODCASTS
Kneecap: The Northern Irish rappers leading a Celtic revival

Kneecap: The Northern Irish rappers leading a Celtic revival

With Una Mullally

In The News · [email protected]

July 19, 202422m 47s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (sphinx.acast.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

Belfast and Derry rappers Kneecap have been in the news for many things in the past year: they took a case against the previous UK government for intervening to block an arts grant; they led a boycott at South By Southwest in Texas over the festival sponsor's links to the Gaza bombardment; they played Glastonbury, released their debut album, Fine Art, and their debut feature film, Kneecap, is about to hit cinemas after an award-winning outing at the Sundance Film Festival. They arrived to that event in a jeep designed to look like a PSNI vehicle. Una Mullally has been following Kneecap since they were an underground act. She says their film “will be a landmark moment for the Irish language, Irish cinema, and Irish music”.


Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Aideen Finnegan.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.