Kneecap have announced plans for a huge world tour including UK and Ireland dates – check them out below.
Fresh from their performance at Reading and Leeds, the Belfast rap trio have announced a huge jaunt kicking off at Pabellón Oestein in Mexico on October 15.
From there the band will kick off a series of UK and Ireland dates in support of their new album ‘Fenian’, the following month starting at the O2 Guildhall Southampton on November 28.
Further dates will call at Bristol, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Newcastle, Hull, Swansea, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bradford and Nottingham before wrapping up at Dublin 3Arena on December 16.
Tickets go on sale this Friday (September 4) at 10am BST and can be purchased here. You can view the full list of dates below.
The rap trio were recently awarded four and a half stars for their performance at Reading on Sunday (August 30), with NME describing the “Belfast trouble-mongers delivering a feel-good blast to end the weekend”.
It added: “An arena-busting live show with the spirit of a lock-in but with the pulse and spectacle of The Chemical Brothers, the electro-punk abandon of The Prodigy, and the truth-spitting fire of Public Enemy – with an eyegasm live production to match.”
Their recent album also received a four and a half star review from NME.
We said: “‘Fenian’ is a spraypainted brick wall of consistency, amplifying the adventure of The Prodigy and Burial, seamlessly but tastefully hopping genres while keeping the vibe up to retain Kneecap’s knack for having a good time to illuminate the hard times. Put all the rage-bait headlines aside and what you’re left with is a solid, progressive and fearless album from a group that could just as easily be dicking around instead of making music that matters. In that sense at least, their day has come.”
Kneecap’s ‘Fenian’ world tour dates are:
OCTOBER
15 – Pabellón Oeste, Ciudad de México, México
17 – Bonfire, Bogotá, Colombia
19 – C Art Media Buenos Aires, Argentina
21 – Club Chocolate, Santiago, Chile
23 – Sáo Paulo, Brazil
NOVEMBER
6 – Rockhal, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
7 – Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
9 – B-K, Stockholm, Sweden
10 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
11 – Plan B, Malmo, Sweden
12 – KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
14 – Inside Seaside, Gdansk, Poland
16 – De Oosterpoort, Groningen
17 – 013, Tilburg
18 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam
20 – Le Zénith, Paris, France
21 – Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
24 – Alcatraz, Milan
25 – Teatro Cartiere, Florence
26 – Alhambra, Geneva, Switzerland,
28 – O2 Guildhall Southampton
29 – The Prospect Building, Bristol
DECEMBER
1 – The Halls Civic, Wolverhampton
3 – Depot Mayfield, Manchester
4 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne
5 – Connexin Live, Hull
7 – Swansea Arena
9 – OVO Arena, Glasgow
10 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
11 – Bradford Live
12 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
16 – 3Arena, Dublin,
FEBRUARY 2027
9 – Spark Arena, Auckland
10 – TSB Arena, Wellington
Elsewhere, the band are set to make an appearance on Tom Morello‘s forthcoming album ‘Everyone Gets Everything They Want’, which is out on September 25 via Mom + Pop Music.
They feature on the track ‘Unconquered’. You pre-order/pre-save the album here.
Morello recently described Kneecap as “clearly the Rage Against The Machine of now”, praising the trio for their outspoken political stance. “What they’re doing in their art is what people could probably stand to do more in their lives: to really speak truth to power,” he said.
The comments prompted Disturbed frontman David Draiman to call Morello “shameful”, before Kneecap responded by describing Draiman as a “straight up c**t”.
