Rubber Bandits
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The RubberBandits are a comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick City, Ireland.
Primarily a stage act, they have performed throughout Ireland, at such events as The Electric Picnic and the Bulmers International Comedy Festival, and have played with The Alabama Three, Super Extra Bonus Party and Ice Cube. Their music is primarily distributed through the internet, or by bootleg discs, although a number of their tracks have been issued on a limited edition eponymous album.
The members deliberately conceal their identity on stage and in interviews by disguising their faces with plastic bags. They perform under the names Blindboy Boatclub and Mr. Chrome, and their real names are generally not known.
Their style of comedy is satirical, surrealist and crude,and, in the same manner as television shows such as South Park, use toilet humour to make deeper political points or provide social commentary. This is best espoused in tracks such as Up The Ra, which employs the literary device of the unreliable narrator to lambast the Irish phenomenon of armchair republicanism. This is certainly not the case, however, with all their music, and they often employ crudeness merely for its own comedic value. Their work explores a number of themes that are of particular significance to Limerick Urban Youth, namely drug use, interaction with An Garda Síochána, and violence. Works such as Too Many Gee demonstrate their propensity to mock both the macho, hypersexualised culture of Limerick urban youth, and similar attitudes amongst mainstream hip hop acts, such as the bombastic track In Da Club by 50 Cent. In addition, their work also focuses on the animal life most familiar to residents of Irish cities, namely greyhounds, piebald horses and water fowl.
They also use recordings of prank phonecalls as part of their stage act. Recorded pranks performed by the Bandits have featured on a number of Irish and international radio stations, and became something of a memetic phenomenon in Ireland in the early 2000's. In fact, phonecalls were their primary content until they became a musical stage act in 2007.
Nialler 9 of State_(magazine) included one of their tracks in his top 20 albums of 2008, and has listed the Rubberbandits as his number two "international act to watch for 2009".
Primarily a stage act, they have performed throughout Ireland, at such events as The Electric Picnic and the Bulmers International Comedy Festival, and have played with The Alabama Three, Super Extra Bonus Party and Ice Cube. Their music is primarily distributed through the internet, or by bootleg discs, although a number of their tracks have been issued on a limited edition eponymous album.
The members deliberately conceal their identity on stage and in interviews by disguising their faces with plastic bags. They perform under the names Blindboy Boatclub and Mr. Chrome, and their real names are generally not known.
Their style of comedy is satirical, surrealist and crude,and, in the same manner as television shows such as South Park, use toilet humour to make deeper political points or provide social commentary. This is best espoused in tracks such as Up The Ra, which employs the literary device of the unreliable narrator to lambast the Irish phenomenon of armchair republicanism. This is certainly not the case, however, with all their music, and they often employ crudeness merely for its own comedic value. Their work explores a number of themes that are of particular significance to Limerick Urban Youth, namely drug use, interaction with An Garda Síochána, and violence. Works such as Too Many Gee demonstrate their propensity to mock both the macho, hypersexualised culture of Limerick urban youth, and similar attitudes amongst mainstream hip hop acts, such as the bombastic track In Da Club by 50 Cent. In addition, their work also focuses on the animal life most familiar to residents of Irish cities, namely greyhounds, piebald horses and water fowl.
They also use recordings of prank phonecalls as part of their stage act. Recorded pranks performed by the Bandits have featured on a number of Irish and international radio stations, and became something of a memetic phenomenon in Ireland in the early 2000's. In fact, phonecalls were their primary content until they became a musical stage act in 2007.
Nialler 9 of State_(magazine) included one of their tracks in his top 20 albums of 2008, and has listed the Rubberbandits as his number two "international act to watch for 2009".
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