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Rubberbandits – Pure Awkward

  • Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:57 pm

The RubberBandits are a comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick City in Ireland. Primarily a stage and television act, they have performed throughout Ireland, at such events as Electric Picnic[1] and the Bulmers International Comedy Festival,[2] and have played with The Alabama Three,[3] Super Extra Bonus Party[4] and Ice Cube.[5] 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. As of October 2010, the Rubberbandits have been added to the cast of the RTE2 program, Republic of Telly. 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.[6] Their style of comedy is satirical, surrealist and crude,[7] 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,[8] which employs the literary device of the unreliable narrator to lambast the Irish phenomenon of armchair republicanism.[9] 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 …

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