Irish rap group promises \u201ceven bigger tour\u201d later<\/p>\n
\n\tIrish rap group Kneecap<\/a> have announced that they are canceling all of their upcoming U.S tour dates due to the proximity of group member Mo Chara\u2019s Sept. 26 court hearing<\/a> in London. Chara, born Liam \u00d3g \u00d3 hAnnaidh faces terror charges, for allegedly brandishing a flag of the Lebanese political organization Hezbollah during a London concert,<\/a> which is illegal under the U.K.\u2019s Terrorism Act. Both \u00d3 hAnnaidh and Kneecap<\/a> have repeatedly denied the allegations<\/a>, stating previously<\/a> that they \u201cdo not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhile announcing the cancellation of their U.S. tour, which was slated to begin in New York on Oct. 1, the group noted, \u201cWith every show fully sold out this is news we are sad to deliver. But once we win our court case, which we will, we promise to embark on an even bigger tour to all you great heads. Canadian shows are NOT affected and we will be playing our 4 sold out shows in Vancouver and Toronto.\u201d Refunds for U.S. ticket holders will be available at the point of purchase.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tKneecap have garnered both support and criticism following months of controversy stemming from their sets at Coachella<\/a> in April. During both weekends of the California festival, they defended Palestine<\/a> and blasted Israel as the government\u2019s war in Gaza has killed more than 60,000 people and caused \u201cunprecedented\u201d starvation according to its Health Ministry.<\/a> The count follows the Hamas attacks against Israel in Oct. 7, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAt their Glastonbury Festival performance in June, the group doubled down on their long-time support for Palestine in the region and their condemnation of what they\u2019ve controversially called \u201cgenocide<\/a>\u201d by\u00a0Israel<\/a>\u00a0in the region. They also led a vulgar chant against British prime minister Keir Starmer. A British police force launched an investigation<\/a> into Kneecap stemming from the performance, but backed down in July due to \u201cinsufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for any offence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish rap group promises \u201ceven bigger tour\u201d later Irish rap group Kneecap have announced that they are canceling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,5313,136],"class_list":["post-96118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-kneecap","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}