Blindboy Boatclub

David Chambers, known by his professional pseudonym Blindboy Boatclub, is an Irish satirist, musician, podcaster, author, and TV presenter.

From Limerick, Blindboy began his artistic career as one half of the Irish comedy hip-hop group The Rubberbandits, who wear plastic shopping bags as masks to conceal their identities. He regularly discusses mental health, masculinity, and other socio-political issues.

Since 2017, he has been making The Blindboy Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and coverage of social issues. He has also published a number of collections of short stories, and appeared on several television and podcast programmes. Between 2018 and 2019, he produced a BBC Three documentary series, Blindboy Undestroys the World. Personal life David Chambers was born on 1 May in Limerick in the mid-1980s, where he attended secondary school in Ardscoil Rís.

Chambers was diagnosed with autism in his 30s following comments from The Blindboy Podcast listeners.

Podcast

Originally touring and performing as part of a duo, Chambers (under the name Blindboy Boatclub) has produced a number of "solo" works, including a podcast which covers topics such as mental health, politics, culture, music, and history. The podcast has also included interviews with people such as Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Spike Lee, Sinéad O'Connor, Emma Dabiri, Colm O'Gorman, Cillian Murphy and other comedians, activists and academics.

The podcast reportedly has 250,000 weekly listeners in Ireland and over a million worldwide listeners monthly. Blindboy has also played live tours of the podcast around Ireland and the UK, also touring in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Twitch stream Beginning in 2020, Blindboy began a regular Twitch stream, which to date has featured him playing Red Dead Redemption II, while also creating live music using a combination of guitars, keyboard, drums, cowbell and his own ad-libbed vocals, and interacting with fans. From January 2021, he reduced the stream to just Thursday evenings, in order to concentrate on other work.

Television Blindboy made a five-part documentary series called Blindboy Undestroys the World for BBC Three which explored contemporary issues in the UK.

Blindboy has also appeared on several Irish programmes, including The Late Late Show and The Tommy Tiernan Show. He has also appeared on Russell Brand's Under the Skin with Russell Brand, The Trews web series, and Andrew Callaghan's Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan web series.

In 2024, Blindboy wrote an episode of RTE Storyland titled "Did You Read About Erskine Fogarty?", starring Robert Sheehan, Peter Coonan and Lalor Roddy.

Books He has published three collections of satirical short stories: