Craic Killers have returned with a new single, ‘Gimmie’, a confrontational protest track released on 5 June 2026.
The band describe ‘Gimmie’ as a politically motivated song aimed at a world they see as increasingly shaped by male politicians and influencers. Its target, in the songwriter’s words, is the entitlement of the so called manosphere and the men who consume its content without recognising the grift behind it. The track takes aim at figures including Andrew Tate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, drawing a line between the personas they sell and the reality the band sees behind them.
Written a year ago, the single arrives into a moment the songwriter ties to events in the United States, from the actions of ICE to what they frame as a much longer history of violence against Black and brown communities. The message to the men the song addresses is blunt: apologies are not enough, and the work that matters is showing up for the people and communities they have ignored.
We would simply note that protest has always run through the heart of punk, and ‘Gimmie’ plants its flag firmly in that tradition. Whether or not every listener shares its politics, it is the work of a band with something it urgently wants to say.
