Overview
- Kneecap’s new single, produced with Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll, is performed in Irish and has featured in their set since Glastonbury.
- Finn Keenan directs the video, which stars Derry Girls actor Jamie-Lee O’Donnell and includes a “Free Mo Chara” Land Rover and nods to Belfast’s rave history.
- The track is out on Heavenly/[PIAS] and will appear on a double A-sided 12-inch with “The Recap,” with a sold-out green variant and a black edition due October 10.
- The group canceled a sold-out U.S. tour citing Mo Chara’s forthcoming London court appearance on a terrorism charge linked to an alleged 2024 Hezbollah flag display.
- European dates continue alongside four Canadian shows, and at Electric Picnic the band used stage screens to condemn Irish government links to Israeli war bonds.