Kneecap has introduced its biggest-ever English present with an enormous headline date at London’s OVO Wembley Area this coming September.
The Belfast hip-hop trio will head to the 12,500-capacity present on Sep. 18 and follows their headline present at London’s Broad Awake competition in Brockwell Park within the capital in Could. Tickets for the present will go on presale on Jun. 4 at 10 a.m. BST, with a full basic sale on Jun. 6 at 10 a.m. BST .
In April, the group got here into wider focus following their exhibits at Coachella Pageant the place they shared a Professional-Palestine message on stage. “Israel is committing genocide towards the Palestinian individuals. It’s being enabled by the U.S. authorities who arm and fund Israel regardless of their battle crimes. F–okay Israel; free Palestine.” Following the exhibits, the trio cut up with their reserving agent, and Sharon Osbourne and right-wing critics referred to as for his or her visas to be revoked.
A month later in late Could, band member Mo Chara, born Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, was charged with a terror offense following historic movies which allegedly confirmed the MC shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” in reference to the 2 militant teams. Each are proscribed terror group standing by the U.Ok. authorities, and alleged help is forbidden below the 2000 Terrorism Act. Ó hAnnaidh denies the cost, and referred to as it “a carnival of distraction” away from the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. He’ll seem in Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket in London on June 18.
In response, a number of exhibits in Germany have been cancelled, and the group have been faraway from the Eden Session lineup in Cornwall, England and TRNSMT in Glasgow, Scotland. The trio introduced make-up gigs in close by cities which offered out immediately. Quite a lot of acts together with Large Assault, Brian Eno, CMAT and extra have backed the group in an open letter, calling for inventive freedom of expression.
The group are resulting from play quite a few large exhibits this summer season. Later this month the group will head to Glastonbury Pageant, earlier than exhibits at Inexperienced Man, 2000 Bushes and exhibits with Fontaines D.C. of their dwelling metropolis in Belfast in August. They launched their album Fantastic Artwork in 2024 and are presently engaged on a follow-up.
