Severed head of King George V statue may have resurfaced at Irish rappers’ Melbourne gig
Hip hop trio Kneecap appeared to show head of King’s Domain statue beheaded nine months ago
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The solid bronze severed head of Melbourne’s decapitated King George V statue appears to have briefly reappeared in public, gracing the stage during a performance by a visiting Northern Irish hip hop group.
The statue in the King’s Domain parklands was beheaded during the King’s Birthday Weekend in June 2024 – one of a series of anti-colonial acts of sabotage targeting British memorials in Melbourne.
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