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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