Are there police officers and ME people ready? Check! Is everyone searched upon arrival and passed by a scanner? Double check! Is the ANP posting on the street together with other extra -carved journalists? Triple Check!
What exactly is going on? On Friday evening, the Irish hip -hop collective Kneecap performed in the Amsterdam concert hall Paradiso. In recent months, the trio has become an international Januskop of pop music against will and thanks.
For his rappers Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí now three kwajongens from Belfast with whom recalcitrant tendencies, anti-autoritarian sympathies and unconditional compassion for Underdogs thanks to British rule and collective traumas of The Troubles, last year, they just have their hindic, last year, in their hily hilbles, their hindi, last year, in their hilarious, in their hilarious, in their hilbles, in their hilbles, in their hilbles, in their hindItie, last year, in their hilarious, in their hilarious, in their hilarious, in their hindItie,, their hindItieke hilbles, among other things, in their hily hilbles. interpret their life story)?
Or consists of Kneecap from state -dangerous terrorist friends who baptize with Hamas and wave with flags of Hezbollah (as, among others, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer argued when he warned that it would be ‘inappropriate’ that the band would perform at the Glastonbury festival).
While the controversy grew, shows were suspended and scaled up. An American Tour Vervlog, but elsewhere Kneecap promoted to ever larger stages. The two evenings in Paradiso were immediately sold out. The provisional crown in AFAS Live will follow in November.
Heroes received
In Amsterdam, despite earlier protests and threats – it will remain quiet on the street. But in Paradiso the pleuris does break out, but in a good way. And now Kneecap does not make the most sound. During an ecstatic dance, hos- and mosh festival, the room manages to constantly drown out, screams and gillen, who was recovered as heroes. It seems as if all the fuss has produced a lot of new, young fans.
For all those newcomers, Mo Chara (hat, sunglasses, Keffiyeh) explains one more time: ,, If you can’t understand us: we will rap in Irish. So you don’t have a psychotic slump. “
What many lay people (and British Prime Miners) probably also do not expect: Kneecap’s most fanatic activism is mainly their hedonism. In public favorites such as ‘Cearta’ and ‘Hooded’ they rap about Carlberg, Coke and Chlamydia. When Móglaí Bap takes his hoodie halfway through the show to show everyone the return of his gym subscription, the tattoo speaks on his diaphragm volumes. ‘3CAG’, it says in Gothic characters.
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The title of the first Kneecap album is also the abbreviation for ‘3 Chonsan Agus Guta’. Literally translated: three consonants and a vowel. Freely translated: MDMA.
If Kneecap does not talk about it itself, the room will do it itself. Several times a spontaneous Chant ,, Free! Free Palestine! ” -Also about the trance track that sets up the balaclava DJ Próvaí under a red-white-green-green cap as a snack.
Colonialism
Only after 45 minutes and a comic teaser (“Did anyone happen to see the news recently?”) Does the high word come out. “We know that you are here to have a good time, but we have to talk to every show about Palestine,” says Mo Chara after the umpteenth chant. ,, As Irish, we know what colonialism entails and what it means to be on the right side of history. As long as nothing changes, we have to fill the gap to leave the politicians and keep talking about Palestine every day. ”
And hop. The next banger starts again and another crowdsurfer floats by, waving with a Palestine flag. One fan proudly keeps a cardboard sign in the air, with a support for the rapper who has to report later this month in the London court: “Free Mo Chara.”