“They tried to stop this gig,” Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (aka Mo Chara) proclaimed at the start of Kneecap’s long-awaited set on Friday night. “Honestly lads, you’ve no idea how close we were to being pulled off this gig. Has anybody been watching the news?”

Kneecap have released a new single ahead of their headline performance at London's Wide Awake festival, just days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence.

Kneecap release new song ahead of headline performance at London’s Wide Awake - The Irish rap trio are playing the festival on Friday evening in Brockwell Park.

The Belfast rap group Kneecap have always been politically outspoken, and lately that outspokenness has involved some major career tumult. During Coachella’s first weekend, the group’s messages condemning Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza were censored on the festival’s official livestream,

Met Police officers could be seen entering the 100 Club on Oxford Street in central London on May 22 where rap trio Kneecap had announced a surprise sold-out gig on Thursday night

Irish rap trio Kneecap have released a new song ahead of their headline performance at London's Wide Awake festival, just two days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence in the UK.