{"id":260995,"date":"2025-03-18T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/a-special-st-patricks-day-guest-the-head-of-king-george-v\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:28:11","slug":"a-special-st-patricks-day-guest-the-head-of-king-george-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/a-special-st-patricks-day-guest-the-head-of-king-george-v\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special St. Patrick\u2019s Day Guest: the Head of King George V"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The irreverent, unrepentantly political Northern Irish rap trio Kneecap welcomed a special guest onto the stage of its show in Melbourne, Australia, over St. Patrick\u2019s Day weekend: the head of King George V, which appeared to be a missing piece of a statue that was decapitated in the city last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome madman dropped by with a huge King George\u2019s head so he could hear a few tunes for our last Melbourne show!\u201d the group posted on Instagram<\/a>, alongside a photograph of the enormous bronze face onstage in front of one of the group members, Mo Chara.<\/p>\n

It was the latest twist in a monthslong mystery, after a towering statue of King George V in the King\u2019s Domain area of Melbourne was decapitated and vandalized with paint last June, part of a wave of anticolonial<\/a> vandalism that targeted imperial statues across the state of Victoria. The missing head seemed to briefly reappear in January, when a video posted on Instagram showed it on a barbecue grill, lit on fire<\/a>. But it has been missing, again, ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cAllegedly his head was cut off last year in the city..\u2026anyways he was put on stage for a few tunes and then whisked away,\u201d the group wrote in its post. \u201cRemember every colony can fall \ud83d\udd25\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n