Holly Wainwright
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27,396 appearances
148 recordings
7 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard today
Holly Wainwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 148 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 39.
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And we here in Australia were in the middle of our marriage equality debate.
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So he's he's always been political.
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He is an artist who makes political pop music.
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Interestingly, at one point he was almost cancelled himself for being a white rapper and how uncool that was.
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And he took a more political turn after that, no question.
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Anyway, he has songs about police brutality.
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He has several.
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Donald Trump.
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And most relevant to this conversation is that he has a song about Palestine called Heende's Hall, inspired by the protests that followed the killing of five-year-old Heende Rajab by the IDF in Gaza in 2024.
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McClamore released that song that year, so straight away, and he's been performing it live ever since.
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On night one in New Jersey, before Ed Sheron came on, and before McClemore played,
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The next night, after presumably some conversations, he played the song, repeated the Free Palestine Call, which he does a few times to get the audience s some of whom cheer, some of whom don't.
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But he had added this to the end of that.
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The backlash began.
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People began to post about it, including Pink, the singer Pink, who said that as a Jewish person, she didn't appreciate Macklemore adding that part on because paraphrasing her a bit, but she said it's like he's deciding for us whether or not we should be offended by his position.
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But most most crucially to what unfolded next, a man called Robert Kraft, who owns a
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Big stadium in Foxborough in Massachusetts, as well as the NFL team, the New England Patriots, called Sheerin, because that one of the shows upcoming is going to be at his stadium.
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And he said he had a 40-minute conversation to say that McLamore would not be welcome in his stadiums.
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It's widely reported he then spoke to other owners across America who felt the same.
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The statement that Kraft gave says this: based on McLamore's recent actions, material shared.
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