Kneecap add extra London show to 2024 UK and Ireland tour due to phenomenal demand
Kneecap have annoucned an additional London gig to their 2024 UK and Ireland tour due to overwhelming demand.
Today (July 29), the Irish hip-hop trio took to their official social media accounts to share that they will be playing a second show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on November 8.
“LONDON We’ve added a SECOND NIGHT at the @o2forumktown due to demand from ye sxc hipsters,” read the caption of their post.
The new date comes ahead of their previously announced sold-out gig at the venue. Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday (July 31) at 10am local time. Visit here to purchase tickets and check out a full list of tour dates below.
Kneecap’s 2024 UK, Ireland and US tour dates are:
AUGUST
15 – Summer Sessions – IRELAND
16 – Electric Picnic – IRELAND
23 – Reading Festival – U.K.
24 – Leeds Festival – U.K.
SEPTEMBER
18 – Brooklyn Bowl – PHILADELPHIA
19 – Knockdown Centre – BROOKLYN
21 – Paradise Rock Club – BOSTON
23 – Union Stage – WASHINGTON
25 – A&R Music Bar – COLUMBUS
26 – Louder Than Life Festival – LOUISVILLE
27 – Concord Music Hall – CHICAGO
OCTOBER
29 – Vicar Street – DUBLIN
30 – Vicar Street – DUBLIN
31 – Vicar Street – DUBLIN
NOVEMBER
8 – The O2 Forum – LONDON [NEW]
14 – Foundry – SHEFFIELD
15 – New Century Hall – MANCHESTER
16 – Barrowlands – GLASGOW – SOLD OUT
17 – Barrowlands – GLASGOW
19 – Rock City – NOTTINGHAM
20 – SXW – BRISTOL
21 – The O2 Forum – LONDON
DECEMBER
19 – City Hall – CORK
20 – City Hall – CORK
21 – SSE Arena – BELFAST
Elsewhere, Kneecap recently shared the official film poster for their forthcoming biopic. The Irish rap trio unveiled the official trailer for their self-titled biopic, starring Michael Fassbender, last month. The film was also previewed at Glastonbury Festival’s cinema tent, Pilton Palais.
Written and directed by Rich Peppiatt, the feature-length comedy-drama won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It is due to arrive in Irish cinemas on August 8, before hitting the big screen in the UK on August 23.
“Based on the origin story of the riotous and ground-breaking Irish-language rap trio Kneecap, the film stars the band’s Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí in their acting debuts,” an official synopsis reads.
“Set in West Belfast in 2019, it chronicles how fate brings the trio together and how they then go on to ‘change the sound of Irish music forever’.”
The film has already received praise from Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who described it on social media as “absolutely fucking phenomenal”.
“We love the movie, but we weren’t sure if it would ever go beyond Belfast,” Bap recently told NME. “It’s very colloquial. It’s kind of like Trainspotting in that way. Then we went to Sundance and got the audience award. It’s similar to our music; people just get the energy and the craic out of it. I don’t know think Americans know what a tout is, but it didn’t stop them enjoying it.”
“Obviously we loosely took some ideas from Trainspotting and stuff, then we had Irvine Welsh who wrote it coming out and saying it was the best film he’d seen in fucking years or something,” added bandmate DJ Próvaí. “That’s massive praise for us. Obviously we’re a music band we’re doing fucking acting jobs that we’d never done before and people were dubious about whether or not we were going to make it as fucking actors; but go see it.”
During a recent interview with the trio for The Cover, NME wrote: “The ballsy biopic is a runaway romp of sex, drugs, music and politics. A clash of 8 Mile and Trainspotting with a dash of Steve McQueen’s Hunger…”
NME‘s Andrew Trendell said that “Kneecap’s performance couldn’t be more convincing – but then, they’ve already lived it”, adding: “Holy shit. What a film.”
The band recently released their second LP ‘Fine Art‘. In a glowing five-star review of the album, NME shared: “An ode to the abandon and unity that come from chain-smoking with your mates and getting lost in the rave, ‘Parful’ perhaps best captures ‘Fine Art’ and the spirit of Kneecap.
“In the dark of the night out, the moment is all that matters and the rave will set you free. To shout that in a ‘dying’ language on a record that couldn’t sound any more alive? That’s power – and Kneecap have it.”
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Anagricel Duran
NME
