Kneecap announce HUGE show at SSE Arena Belfast
Last updated 14th Jun 2024
Irish hip-hop group Kneecap have announced a major homecoming show at Belfast's SSE Arena.
📍 Saturday 21st December 2024
Tickets on sale Friday 21st June 2024 from ticketmaster.ie and ssearenabelfast.com
This headline show will round off a landmark year for the Mo Chara, Moglaí Bap and DJ Provaí – with the release of their debut album 'Fine Art' and their highly anticipated feature film, KNEECAP.
Like the band themselves, Fine Art is fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and genuinely thought provoking. It’s genius is to immerse you in a world thus far unrepresented in modern music.
Across the record’s twelve tracks and the interconnecting moments between them (recorded by the band and friends including DJ Annie Mac), the pub comes to life vividly, providing the perfect backdrop for the cast of characters that join the dots throughout the album. From the moment the idea was born back in Toddla T’s studio, it was the obvious location to base the world of Kneecap in.
Mo Chara “We’d been writing an album for around two years. We’d grown a lot quicker as a band than we were developing our production skills. We were getting big crowds at concerts and we knew needed to go for a bigger producer. When we got into the studio with Toddla T, we scrapped every song we had and started from complete scratch. T’s idea was to tell the story of Kneecap. So the record was conceived as the listener stepping into Kneecap’s world. That’s where the idea came to set whole thing in a pub. You walk into a pub at the start, there’s someone offering you a drink, there’s a singsong… really, it’s us taking you by the hand and leading you into our world.”
Moglaí Bap “You’re in there enjoying a pint at the start of the night then you go to the toilet and someone’s offering you cocaine, you go out and have a fag and bump into new people and all the time, the mood and the energy keeps changing…”
Mo Chara “The challenge was to show versatility across all the genres of hip hop. We wanted to do all of that whilst sounding cohesive. The pub was a really good way of tying it all together.”
Tickets for Kneecap's homecoming gig in December go on sale Friday 21st June 2024 from ticketmaster.ie and ssearenabelfast.com
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