Let's kick 2026 off with a lively punk ditty that I missed last year.
Craic Killers (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581502717812) are a politically active Welsh/Irish punk duo based in South East London. They're new to me so I know very little about them but I do know that they released a very fine ep in October titled Who TF Is....Craic Killers?
5 tracks of blistering punk tuneage accompanied by acerbically thoughtful lyrics. Topics include how those in power seek to divide and distract (Stop arguing with each other, They are doing this on purpose, Split the people, split the conscious, and you’ll find yourself in office), colonialism (And don’t you ever forget, yous are murderers, I want my counties back) and middle aged narrow minded women (like Lucy Connolly?) (It’s all for the greater good it’s for the master race).
I'm looking forward to hearing more. (There's a collaboration coming on the January 2026 Dam-nations compilation from Dammit Records where they've teamed up with Asthma Killers on a track called Davos) https://dammitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dam-nations-january-2026
This is the opening track. It's a song about police discrimination. It translates into English as The Pigs. It's titled Na Muca...
Na muca, na RUC and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
Off with their heads,
Na muca, NYPD and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
They can get bent,
These things claim to be the guardians of the civil world,
A place where nothing bad can happen if you know the rules,
Only if you’re of a lighter persuasion,
Because everybody knows about police discrimination,
They won’t admit it, they’ve the chart in their car,
Darker than a beach tan, you ain’t going too far,
No pale skin like Dracula, they wont let you in,
But he won’t get in either, bloody immigrants,
Na muca, na RUC and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
Off with their heads,
Na muca, NYPD and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
They can get fucking bent,
There’s nobody more violent than the police,
Other than the military, which makes you a Nazi,
Little sore losers, all lined up,
Got bullied in school, but now you’re making time up,
They won’t admit it, they’ve the chart in their car,
Darker than a beach tan, you’re not going too far,
No pale skin like Dracula, they wont let you in,
But he won’t get in either, bloody immigrants,
The whole world watched it on their TV,
Got more problems with footballers taking knees,
Vision is clouded and judgement is blurred,
As long as they don't come to get me first,
Vision is clouded and judgement is blurred,
As long as they don't come to get me first,
Vision is clouded and judgement is blurred,
As long as they don't come to get me first,
Na muca, na RUC and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
Off with their heads,
Na muca, NYPD and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
They can get fucking bent,
Na muca, na RUC and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
Off with their heads,
Na muca, NYPD and the Met,
Whatever you’re calling them,
Off with their heads.
(Wee John Butcher go and suck your ma)
