Kneecap: Extra gigs cancelled in Germany amid ‘kill your MP’ controversy

Talking on RTÉ’s Prime Time on Tuesday, the band’s supervisor stated “ethical hysteria” had taken maintain and that the band are being held to a better ethical customary than politicians.

Daniel Lambert claimed a “concerted marketing campaign” in opposition to the group is “solely about de-platforming artists”.

“It is about telling the following younger band, each by means of the music business and thru the political class, that you simply can’t discuss Palestine,” he stated.

On having gigs cancelled, the band’s supervisor stated: “It isn’t for us to fret, it is for us to have the energy of conviction that we did the proper factor.”

He added that going to Coachella was the proper factor to do, and “all of this has emerged from that”.

TV character Sharon Osbourne referred to as for the band’s US work visas to be revoked after their efficiency on the Coachella music competition in California earlier this month, the place they described Israel’s army motion in Gaza as a US-funded genocide.

Scheduled appearances at Hurricane and Southside festivals, additionally in Germany, had been cancelled final week.

A gig on the Eden Venture in Cornwall has additionally been cancelled.

On Tuesday, an Eden Periods Restricted spokesperson stated: “Ticket purchasers might be contacted immediately and might be totally refunded.”

The band are set to assist Fontaines DC at Boucher Taking part in Fields, Belfast, in August.

Talking to BBC Radio Ulster’s The Nolan Present, councillor Jim Rodgers stated “critical consideration must be given” on whether or not the live performance ought to go forward.

“I’ve already spoken to a few of the council officers and I am hoping that the mandatory motion might be taken. We’ve got to guide by instance,” he stated.

“We’d be sending out the flawed message if we had been to permit this group to go forward with their occasion.”

A Belfast Metropolis Council spokesperson stated: “Use of the venue for these occasions is managed by way of a authorized settlement between the council and the promoter. Occasions programming stays a matter for the organisers.

“Any matter that an elected member needs to boost can be thought-about by the related committee and full council.”

Kneecap are an Irish-speaking rap trio who’ve courted controversy with their provocative lyrics and merchandise.

The group was fashioned in 2017 by three mates who go by the stage names of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí.

Their rise to fame impressed a semi-fictionalised movie starring Oscar-nominated actor Michael Fassbender.

The movie received a British Academy of Movie Award (Bafta) in February 2025.

Final week, a video emerged of the west Belfast trio at a November 2023 gig showing to point out one individual from the band saying: “The one good Tory is a lifeless Tory. Kill your native MP.”

The daughter of the Conservative MP David Amess whose father was stabbed to demise at a constituency surgical procedure referred to as for Kneecap to apologise.

In an announcement on X, the band stated that “an extract of footage, intentionally taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it had been a name to motion”.

In addition they referred to as a few of the backlash a “smear marketing campaign” and stated it was “a clear effort to derail the true dialog” away from their messages of “love” and assist for Palestine.

They added: “To the Amess and Cox households, we ship our heartfelt apologies, we by no means supposed to trigger you harm.”

On Tuesday, the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox referred to as on Kneecap to provide a “actual apology”.

Brendan Cox, whose spouse was killed in June 2016, stated this was “solely half an apology”.

Not one of the members of Kneecap have been charged with any offences.