KNEECAP announced to perform at Glastonbury Festival 2024

Belfast rap trio KNEECAP are headed for Glastonbury 2024, it's been announced.

The group, made up of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, has announced they are part of the line-up for the historic musical festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Hot off their appearance on US talk show The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, KNEECAP will join huge names such as Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain who will headline the festival.

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KNEECAP will be performing on the Woodies stage at the festival which runs from June 26 to 30.

Last weekend, the group announced that they would not be performing South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Texas in "solidarity with the people of Palestine".

In a statement on social media, KNEECAP said: "We have made the decision to cancel our three shows at SXSW and not travel to Austin as planned on Tuesday.

"It is done in solidarity with the people of Palestine and to highlight the unacceptable deep links the festival has to weapons companies and the US military who at this very moment are enabling a genocide and famine against a trapped population.

"We cannot in good conscience attend an arts festival that has 'The U.S Army' as a 'Super Sponsor and is platforming RTX (formerly Raytheon), Collins Aerospace, and BAE Systems, the very companies selling the weapons that have murdered 31,000 Palestinians, over 21,000 of them women and children."

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