[Cherie]

https://www.irishpost.com/news/come-...-charts-176868

SORRY MAROON 5, you've been beaten.
The Wolfe Tones' Irish rebel anthem Come Out Ye Black and Tans has shot to the number one spot on the iTunes charts in Ireland and the UK, seemingly as part of a unique campaign to protest against the planned commemorations of the RIC and DMP, which was cancelled due to public backlash.
The live version of the fenian track surpassed Maroon 5, Lewis Capaldi, Dance Monkey, Endor and Dua Lipa as it rocketed through the charts overnight, and at one point two versions of the song held the top two spots.

Commemerating the Black and Tans whose stupid idea was that?

[MTVN]

Sounds like it had been planned by the Irish government?

Odd that the song has gone to no. 1 in the UK

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Sounds like it had been planned by the Irish government?

Odd that the song has gone to no. 1 in the UK

but what plank in the Irish government sanctioned it

[Saph]

what is the RIC and DMP

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Saph

what is the RIC and DMP

https://www.thejournal.ie/explainer-...56583-Jan2020/

[Shaun]

It seems very easy for random campaigns like this to succeed now, there's a Welsh folk song currently at the top of the iTunes chart.

[Kizzy]

What does it represent?... the spirit of brexit the uprising and galvanising of English nationalism. Imo

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

What does it represent?... the spirit of brexit the uprising and galvanising of English nationalism. Imo

Nonsense

[Cherie]

Anyway all proceeds are going to charity so that’s a bonus

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Anyway all proceeds are going to charity so that’s a bonus

For the victims of police brutality? ...

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

For the victims of police brutality? ...

The Wolfe Tones say they'll donate the proceeds of downloads from "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" to homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust. That's after the rebel song topped the iTunes charts in both the UK and Ireland

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Nonsense

Well thought out response there, I fully understand your counter argument. I look forward to your next word on the subject.

It's rabble rousing, the black and tans were a suppressive faction that led to division, invented by the Boris Johnson of the day churchill. The comparison is apt.

I say fair play that the song has been released, it's a lesson in the fallacy that the English are the great emancipators.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Well thought out response there, I fully understand your counter argument. I look forward to your next word on the subject.

It's rabble rousing, the black and tans were a suppressive faction that led to division, invented by the Boris Johnson of the day churchill. The comparison is apt.

I say fair play that the song has been released, it's a lesson in the fallacy that the English are the great emancipators.

Please don’t kizzysplain Irish history to me

I am struggling to find any Brexit connection with a decision taken by the Justice Minister in the Republic so maybe you can kindly explain that one

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Please don’t kizzysplain Irish history to me

I am struggling to find any Brexit connection with a decision taken by the Justice Minister in the Republic so maybe you can kindly explain that one

Kizzysplain I like it.. if you know the history you'll know why this is the perfect backlash to the flux caused by brexit.

Like brexit, the volume that have bought the tune and the reach its had shows the strength of public feeling to the issue IMO.

For me the song doesn't in any way commemorate the black and tans so not sure why you're mad.

[Crimson Dynamo]

[Niamh.]

I was thinking maybe the song got popular in England after that Alan Partridge scene

Youtube video

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was thinking maybe the song got popular in England after that Alan Partridge scene

Youtube video

I think iTunes just gathers together downloads from the UK and Ireland maybe, not sure