We meet Kneecap backstage at Kingston’s Circuit ahead of an intimate album launch show on St George’s Day (no reader, they do not celebrate). It’s been about a year and half since we last spoke. “A pretty uneventful few months I must say,” jokes Mo Chara, given the lifetime of headlines and controversy the Belfast rap…
In Euronews Culture’s review of the film Kneecap, the award-winning biopic about the rise to fame of the Belfast rap trio, we called the comedy “fun, raucous and heartfelt”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The same could be said about their new album, ‘Fenian’ – but we’d add ‘scathing’, ‘layered’, and ‘very foul-mouthed’. Indeed, if Martin Scorsese’s The…
Kneecap have revealed the 12-minute short film ‘Irish Goodbye’, which also acts as the music video for the song of the same name, which features Kae Tempest. The song is written by member Móglaí Bap (real name Naoise Ó Cairealláin), inspired by the loss of his mother, Aoife Ní Riain, to suicide in 2020. It…
