{"id":73910,"date":"2025-09-19T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73910\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:01:14","slug":"kneecap-address-donald-trumps-uk-state-visit-during-rousing-wembley-arena-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73910\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneecap address Donald Trump’s UK state visit during rousing Wembley Arena gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belfast rap trio Kneecap<\/a> addressed Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to the UK during a rousing gig at Wembley Arena where they told fans music artists are \u201cfilling a void\u201d left by politicians.<\/p>\n

Before taking to the stage at their London show, a message was displayed on the wall that read: \u201c[British prime minister Keir] Starmer welcomed Isaac Herzog to this city like a king last week. Today Trump is here, the man who permits the slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s concert coincided with the final day of the US president\u2019s visit, a week after Mr Starmer met with Israel\u2019s president at Number 10.<\/p>\n

Kneecap members Liam Og O hAnnaidh and Naoise O Caireallain performing at Wembley Arena (Hannah Roberts\/PA)<\/p>\n

Mid-performance, during a break between songs, one of the band members could be heard saying: \u201cIs Donald Trump in f****** England? For f**** sake.<\/p>\n

Naoise \u00d3 Caireall\u00e1in, who performs under the stage name M\u00f3gla\u00ed Bap, added \u201crelease the f****** files\u201d, appearing to make reference to calls for the Trump administration to put all documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations before the public.<\/p>\n

Liam \u00d3g \u00d3 hAnnaidh, also known as Mo Chara, then led the crowd in chants of \u201cf*** the Royal Family\u201d, having also led them in chants of \u201cf*** Keir Starmer\u201d.<\/p>\n

Supported by Irish post-punk band Gurriers and London artist Jelani Blackman, the evening also saw a special audio-visual presentation from trip hop collective Massive Attack followed by a speech from director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ben Jamal.<\/p>\n

The group, which also includes JJ \u00d3 Dochartaigh (DJ Pr\u00f3va\u00ed),\u00a0performed tracks including Better Way To Live, featuring Fontaines DC singer Grian Chatten, Sick In The Head and Hood.<\/p>\n

In another address to the audience, \u00d3 hAnnaidh added: \u201cPeople like us, people like Massive Attack, other acts that decide to use their time on stage to talk about Palestine.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, all we\u2019re doing is filling a void that the politicians aren\u2019t filling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reasons that musician and artists are always the people that are the spearhead of these kind of campaigns and movements is because the politicians won\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

Kneecap\u2019s DJ Provai performing on the main stage on day two of the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally in Co Laois (Niall Carson\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what happens is artists have platforms like this where we can talk to people without interference from the Government, on the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00d3 hAnnaidh also addressed his upcoming court date and said he \u201cwasn\u2019t the first and won\u2019t be the last Irish man\u201d faced with a terror charge in a London court.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is charged with the alleged display of a Hezbollah flag at a gig in November last year.<\/p>\n

\u00d3 hAnnaidh will return to Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on September 26, after his legal team argued the case should be thrown out due to a technical error in the way the charge was brought against him.<\/p>\n

At the adjourned hearing in September, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring will rule on whether he has the jurisdiction to try the case.<\/p>\n

Their arena gig comes after months of sold-out shows and festival performances across the country, including a set at the Glastonbury Festival in June which was investigated by Avon and Somerset Police, who later said they would be taking \u201cno further action\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kneecap initially hit headlines in April when footage emerged that appeared to show a band member saying \u201cKill your local MP\u201d at one gig and saying \u201cUp Hamas, up Hezbollah\u201d at another.<\/p>\n

The group, who are known for their provocative lyrics and merchandise as well as their championing of the Irish language and pro-Palestine stance, have apologised to the families of murdered MPs and said they have \u201cnever supported\u201d Hamas or Hezbollah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast rap trio Kneecap addressed Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to the UK during a rousing gig at Wembley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,11302,50508,13261,9168,2104],"class_list":{"0":"post-73910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-place-europe","13":"tag-place-london","14":"tag-place-northern-ireland","15":"tag-place-republic-of-ireland","16":"tag-place-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}