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Bertie Ahern is a Dirty C**t
May 06 2007
Well its election time in Ireland so I felt it was ripe time that the readers of Nialler9 were introduced to Captain Moonlight. Captain Moonlight (real name, Kevin Spratt) comes ‘Straight Outta Kilkenny’ who is “obsessive about politics and philosophy, literature and music, downing crates of ale and (perhaps, most importantly) Hurling!”. This fused with his diverse influences ranging from Planxty to Public Enemy to Stiff Little Fingers blends intelligent, honest lyrics and fantastic rhyming with sharp beats, in doing so he produces something really special.
He came to national attention when on February 23rd of this year the Daily Star screamed “Hip hop star slams Bertie and his Dail buddies as ‘dirty c**ts”. He refused to cash in on this publicity and began building a following and promoting Agroculture Pt. 1, a 15-track collection. While I feel that all the Captain Moonlight tracks are well worth checking out I am going to stick with the election theme. The songs ‘Dirty Cunts’ and ‘Party People’ are hard hitting and honest tracks that deal directly with ruling parties of Ireland and there various ‘extracurricular activities’ (that’s putting it mildly), which most of the mainstream media in Ireland let alone other musicians shy away from.
Both tracks are excellent and while many people may find themselves concentrating on the chorus of ‘Dirty Cunts’, I implore you, listen to the rest of the song carefully its brilliant! This is also the most honest opinion that you will hear now that the election and the politician’s bullshit machines are in full speed. For all who dread politicians canvassing, you now have your own stay-away-politician-kit. When you see any of the Fianna Fail, PD or Fine Gael rabble coming up to your door give em a blast of ‘Dirty Cunts’ and see if they put some spin on that. Well there isn’t much else to say except to thank Nialler9 once again for allowing me to post this and enjoy the tunes!
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Captain Moonlight - Dirty Cunts
Captain Moonlight - Party People
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the fact he doesn’t mention labour/sf/the greens pretty much ruins it.
1[...] Niall9 has given us a link to Captain Moonlight, who takes an ecumenical approach to politics with his song ‘dirty cunts.’ all politicians, it seems are dirty cunts, with Irish politics a level-playing field of cunts. The political system in Ireland is a cuntocracy, a cuntcophany, ruled by the guiding principles of cuntology. Have a listen here. [...]
2Must be two years since I’ve seen him perform live and he’s in the same town! Great song when he gets going at full steam live, got everyone in the pub going. You’d wonder would it get any radio play in the run up to the election
3i agree
4Its interesting that a couple of the responses would point to those left out of the equation.The fact of the matter is that this song is written about the celtic tiger of which little or no major policy making(labour excepted) was instigated by the afforementioned parties.the 3 paries mentioned in the song are in effect the dominant force either in power or opposition.i could quite easily have included the other 3(with whom i have little time for either)but the purpose of the song is to tackle the issues that are current and which have mostly been dealt with by fianna fail/pd governments.fine gael were mentioned also as a party in opposition but anything more would have restricted the song to a littany of name checking and thereby dragging out the impact of the chorus beyond its measure.i.e. it would have been drawn out and therefore sounded shit
5its a deadly song, do you have an album out?
6“Its interesting that a couple of the responses would point to those left out of the equation.The fact of the matter is that this song is written about the celtic tiger of which little or no major policy making(labour excepted) was instigated by the afforementioned parties.the 3 paries mentioned in the song are in effect the dominant force either in power or opposition.i could quite easily have included the other 3(with whom i have little time for either)but the purpose of the song is to tackle the issues that are current and which have mostly been dealt with by fianna fail/pd governments.fine gael were mentioned also as a party in opposition but anything more would have restricted the song to a littany of name checking and thereby dragging out the impact of the chorus beyond its measure.i.e. it would have been drawn out and therefore sounded shit”
fair enough, just for the record I’d have preferred if it was just a long list of “is a dirty cunt” with few people spared (in a sort of right said fred “i’m too sexy” way) and the lyric “I am, a dirty cunt” somewhere along the line.
but I am still happy enough with the few dirty cunts provided
7well then write one yourself
YOURS SINCERELY
THE DIRTY CUNT
8yes,the album can be bought in allcity records dublin,empire limerick,and ahould be more widely available soon.
9Captain Moonlight plays in dolans Warehouse, Limerick on Saturday 26th as support to J-Live. Tickets on sale now at
10http://dolans.ie/booking/results.php?gig=439
His album agroculture sold out in Empire but there will be extra copies in there this weekend.
Election round up for those interested
http://tinyurl.com/2xbyex
11For those of you interested there’ll be live updates of the count through this website. Think it sends an you an SMS each time there’s an update, you simply ring in then to hear what the latest is….
12http://www.mysay.com/profile/view/Count
Captain Moonlight rocked it at Dolans last weekend in Limerick, and to those people saying they wish he didnt leave out certain political parties, i believe the lines “they’re all dirty cunts” covers them…
13i think this song is great. im living in the usa right now and if you changed the names to georgie bush and connie rice the song would work that way too. lmaooooooooo
14all politicians are dirty cunts.
very good, i agree, ive just watched farenheit 911 recently… i cudn believe my eyes… your country is bein run by an ape.. actually an ape wud prob run it better!
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