11 July 2025
Belfast‘s notorious, politically and socially outspoken rap trio KNEECAP
featuring Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí, hip and hop around with
a knife between their sharp teeth since 2017.
With their debut album, called 3cag in 2018 they got their first accolades
and with last year’s second one, Fine Art, they went nuclear.
For a while now they make headlines with their loud and clear, ongoing support
for Palestine. They got heavily critiqued when they did so at the Coachella Festival
in California last April.
Then the UK’s right wing politicians jumped into it, and prosecuted Mo Chara
after allegedly displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah last November (no verdict
yet), and tried to get them banned from playing Glastonbury Festival next week.
It gained them, rightly so, countless support from musical colleagues and fans.
And UK’s hypocritical attacks on Kneecap keep coming.
Now they’re banned from advertising an upcoming
concert on the London Tube.
Transport for London (TfL) said it approves adverts on a “case-by-case basis” and deemed the Kneecap poster, showing their frequently used logo depicting a balaclava to promote
a September concert “would likely cause widespread or serious offence to reasonable members of the public“.
Meanwhile, the genocide in Gaza goes on and on. The UK administration refers to it as a conflict. Unbelievable, just unbelievable. People are slaughtered every day, but you’re not allowed to talk about it in public.
A few weeks ago, amidst all the controversy,
the band released new single THE RECAP.