Kneecap have announced a run of UK and Ireland arena dates as part of a huge world tour.
The tour will begin for the Belfast rap trio at Pabellón Oestein, Mexico on October 15, before finishing up with a show at Dublin's 3Arena on December 16, with a series of UK shows including Bristol, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Newcastle, Hull, Swansea, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bradford and Nottingham in between.
Kneecap will be supporting their album, 'Fenian' on this tour, with tickets going on sale this Friday (September 4) at 10am BST. They can be purchased via this link here.
Find out more information on this tour below.
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Back in April, Kneecap were one of 1,100 artists and cultural works who signed an open letter calling for a Eurovision boycott. Other artists who penned their signature to the letter included Brian Eno, Macklemore, Charlie McGettigan, Sigur Ros and Black Country, New Road.
The letter called for countries to follow broadcasters in Ireland, Iceland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and to withdraw from the popular competition show.
It also called on the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban Israel and references Russia's ban in 2022 due to the invasion of Ukraine.
An extract from the letter read: “We refuse to be silent when Israel’s genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives. When children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all that’s left of nearly every stage, studio, bookshop and university in Gaza is piles of rubble, under which slaughtered bodies still await recovery and proper burial".
More on this from Nova here.
Last weekend, Kneecap performed live at the Reading Festival, a show which also saw Florence + The Machine tell the crowd to "put your phones the f*** away", while performing live on stage. Find out more on this story here.
