I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!
I’m out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I’ve linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)
Bob Vylan and Idles are great, will check the Lambrini Girls, thanks
Music created in the UK by people who are fucking furious is still alive and well.
Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
Sleaford Mods
Kid Kapichi
Panic Shack
I know Sleaford Mods. Will check the others too, thanks