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 Vast Awake pageant in Brockwell Park within the capital in Might. Tickets for the present will go on presale on Jun. 4 at 10 a.m. BST, with a full common sale on Jun. 6 at 10 a.m. BST .
In April, the group got here into wider focus following their exhibits at Coachella Competition the place they shared a Professional-Palestine message on stage. “Israel is committing genocide towards the Palestinian folks. It’s being enabled by the U.S. authorities who arm and fund Israel regardless of their conflict crimes. F–ok Israel; free Palestine.” Following the exhibits, the trio split with their booking agent, and Sharon Osbourne and right-wing critics known as for his or her visas to be revoked.
A month later in late Might, 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.Okay. authorities, and alleged assist is forbidden beneath the 2000 Terrorism Act. Ó hAnnaidh denies the charge, and known as it “a carnival of distraction” away from the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. He’ll seem in Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom 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 bought out immediately. Various acts together with Huge Assault, Brian Eno, CMAT and extra have backed the group in an open letter, calling for creative freedom of expression.
The group are on account of play various large exhibits this summer time. Later this month the group will head to Glastonbury Competition, 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 Superb Artwork in 2024 and are at present engaged on a follow-up.