Reviving Irish Indigeneity and Anti-Colonialism with The Shan Vans

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5 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Checking off a critical bucket list item: Colonial Outcasts officially coronates its alliance with Irish resistance against colonialism and imperialism via an unapologetic scattershot harangue with Jake, lead the singer of The Shan Vans, a Belfast-based Irish-language rock band blending high-energy sound with a radical political message. Rooted in anti-imperialism and Irish resistance, their music champions decolonization, cultural revival, and international solidarity.

Released last month, their third and latest single The Shan Van, a powerful anti-genocide anthem, forms the centerpiece of Unite Against Genocide, their Ireland-Palestine solidarity project which involved over 100 artists and contributors worldwide.

Jake draws on themes of resistance, decolonization, and cultural memory, influenced by his upbringing in the early OOs in one of the most politically active communities in Ireland, Ballymurphy. Singing in Irish, Jake blends personal and political narratives, often weaving together themes of decolonization, Irish mythology, radical poetry, and contemporary global struggles.

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0:00.0	Two, one, we are live. We're not live, but we're recording. What's up, family? Welcome to Colonial Outcast, the sacrilegious abomination that not just your back-the-blue uncle will hate, but possibly your Zio-Karon-aunt will hate. And if you have neither of those, count your blessings. Some are not so lucky. So I am here with my co-conspirator an anarchy gregg stoker ex-armie
0:21.8	rangers served in afghanistan turned anti-war anti-imperialist activist and journalist and myself
0:27.5	mark wayne ex-army national guardsman e-for shitbag who used to be an evangelical zionist
0:33.7	who almost joined the idf in 2005 when I studied in Jerusalem but fell in love
0:37.9	with Palestine instead and eventually turned very anti-Israel.
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1:01.5	one thing I can suggest is do a screen recording of some of your favorite moments of this
1:05.4	podcast and spread that around, disseminate it on TikTok. What is what is the fucking problem god can i not get through an
1:12.8	intro i mean oh go what what what what i mean god it's good i want to make the comment it's like a
1:19.3	super coked out intro which you know i'm digging it's colonial outcast the whole thing super
1:24.6	coked up we're already far past that bro sorry today, today we are checking off a huge bucket list item for this podcast and one that
1:32.9	I've been looking forward to personally.
1:35.2	And that is, of course, talking shite with the original colonial outcast, the Irish.
1:40.3	The legends who invented the concept of what it means to truly be a colonial outcast,
1:45.8	representing all of the Irish people as a monolith. We have Jake from the Sean Vans, an Irish
1:52.0	rock band, the Belfast-based Irish language rock band, blending high-energy sound with a radical
1:57.4	political message rooted in anti-imperialism and Irish resistance, their music
2:01.5	champions decolonization, cultural revival, and the international solidarity. As you can see,
2:07.3	Greg is over there cringing out because he's not used to me giving intros, but that's okay. I like
2:11.4	causing him to cringe. His writings, now Jake's writings draws on themes of resistance, decolonization,
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