Kneecap have told a London Festival “they are being made an example of” after one of its members was charged with a terror offence this week.

The trio took to the stage at the Wide Awake festival at Brockwell Park in south London tonight after Liam O hAnnaidh, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was charged by the Metropolitian Police.

Liam O hAnnaidh said “they are trying to silence us” after he was charged with a terror offence over the alleged display of a Hezbollah flag.

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He told the crowd at Brockwell Park in south London: “I went for an interview with the counter-terror police and within days they came to a verdict that they were going to charge me, never has it been that quick.

“And the reason it was that quick was because Glastonbury is just around the corner, they’re trying to silence us.”

The group came on stage to videos of people condemning them and one of the group said: “Thank you very much. They tried to stop this gig.”

And one was heard saying: “Honestly lads you have no idea how close we were to being pulled off this gig.”

Members of the trio urged supporters to gather outside court for the first hearing of their bandmate.

One member was heard saying: “If anybody’s about on June 18…we’re all going to gather outside the Westminster court to show support.”

One of the trio was heard telling the crowd: “Anybody who’s free on June 18- get a big bag of Ket and we’ll go on the steps of Westminster.”

O hAnnaidh said: “We are being made an example of, the Israeli lobbyists are trying to prove to other artists ‘that if you speak out, we’re going to hit you where it hurts most’.

“They’re trying to cancel gigs, they trying to cancel my freedom of travel.

“And the fact that I’m speaking to this amount of people, and I assume the majority of you will agree, shows that we’re on the right side of history.”

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