West Belfast-based hip-hop trio Kneecap have shared their information to a greater strategy to dwell.
The three-piece band – rappers Mo Chara (Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh) and Móglaí Bap (Naoise Ó Cairealláin) plus DJ Próvaí (JJ Ó Dochartaigh) – shared their 10 Guidelines To Stay By, basically in a brand new Instagram put up, revealing that they’d been requested to move on their hard-fought knowledge by “the heads at WePresent”, WeTransfer’s digital arts and editorial platform.
The group’s 10 Guidelines had been launched with a quote from Cork band The Sultans Of Ping’s 1992 indie basic The place’s Me Jumper?, a music which incorporates the lyric “What do you concentrate on my manifesto?”.
Learn the Kneecap manifesto beneath:
1. Don’t be sitting on nothing. It’s higher to participate than to be on the sidelines. Don’t say it, do it.
2. Time goes by regardless of your hardships, regardless of crises, regardless of the time on the clock.
3. Don’t be eternally arduous on your self. The troubles of the world are heavy sufficient.
4. Take a breath, say good day to a stranger, ‘give a canine a pet’, it’s the wee issues that add actual wealth to life.
5. Strive to not be bitter – take it that you simply and the particular person in entrance of you might be one and the identical.
6. There’s a worth to mates, tradition, language and relationships that cash individuals can’t make a revenue off, thank god.
7. Welcome range – with individuals, meals and different views of life.
8. Be outspoken, depart your mark and arise to your individuals. Get up for Palestine, and arise for oppressed individuals all over the world.
9. Don’t be afraid of any change, it’s a pure a part of life.
10. Make sure, when your race is run, that you’ve left your all on this world. That you just gave your coronary heart and your soul and every little thing in between.
Final week, Kneecap gained their court docket case in opposition to the British authorities, with a Belfast court docket ruling that Kemi Badenoch, the previous Secretary of State for Enterprise and Commerce who’s now the Conservative Get together chief, illegally blocked an arts grant to which they had been absolutely entitled.
The UK’s Labour authorities determined in opposition to contesting the band’s case.
Kneecap had been awarded £14,250, the identical quantity they had been initially granted. The trio gifted the award equally between two organisations in Belfast working with Catholic and Protestant youth.