Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten joined Kneecap for ‘Better Way To Live’ at their Finsbury Park show in London – watch below.
The outdoor show is going down today (July 5), with Fontaines set to top the bill in their biggest headline show to date. Amyl & The Sniffers, Blondshell, Been Stellar and Cardinals round out the line-up.
During Kneecap’s set in the afternoon, they addressed the ongoing controversy surrounding them and continued to speak up for the people of Palestine, while being critical of the UK government.
They spoke about the pro-Palestinian track record of Irish artists over the last two years and welcomed Chatten onto the stage for a rendition of ‘Better Way To Live’, their 2023 collaboration. Watch a clip from the performance here:
“I’m on the upside of the seesaw”@KNEECAPCEOL x @GrianChatten pic.twitter.com/GRqxqOZr8q
— Andrew Trendell (@AndrewTrendell) July 5, 2025
Kneecap and Chatten have previously performed the song live a number of times, notably at Glastonbury 2024, at the Belfast SSE Arena and on Ireland’s Late Late Show.
During Kneecap’s set, they addressed the legal issues they have been facing in recent weeks. “It’s nice to be back in London and not be up in court,” Mo Chara said. “It’s been a mad few weeks lads, Jesus fucking Christ. Look at the fucking state of us.”
“It’s inhumane, I’m thinking of new things to say during a genocide,” he continued, before speaking about people in Gaza being starved and bombed from the sky. “It doesn’t matter how big or small our audience is, we will always use our platform.”
Kneecap played to 750 people in Plymouth on Friday night (July 4) and in front of a 45,000 crowd in Finsbury Park, they added: “The message will always be the same: free free Palestine.”
“Kneecap gigs have always been about inclusion so I’d like to ensure all undercover cops have a nice time,” he added. “You miserable cunts.”
They also took digs at Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his attempts to have Kneecap removed from Glastonbury this year, leading the crowd in chants of “fuck Keir Starmer”, while clarifying: “It’s not the English people we don’t like, it’s the English government.”
Kneecap’s highly-anticipated Glastonbury set proved to be controversial, with the BBC deciding to pull their livestream coverage of it just hours before they went on. They hit out at Starmer during that set too and reiterated their support for the people of Palestine. Avon and Somerset Police later said they were investigating the set, as well Bob Vylan’s, under possible criminal charges.
That investigation follows two others from London’s Met Police – one into Mo Chara allegedly shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” and displaying a Hezbollah flag on stage, for which he appeared in court and been granted unconditional bail, and the other into alleged on-stage comments in which the band said “the only good Tory is a dead Tory”, for which they will not face any further action.
The band have consistently denied supporting Hamas or Hezbollah, and say they do not incite or condone violence, describing the legal action against them as “a carnival of distraction”.
Fontaines, meanwhile, invited a pro-Palestine group onto the stage with them during their set at Roskilde 2025 in Denmark this week. They led chants in both English and Arabic and praised Bob Vylan after their divisive Glastonbury performance.
