Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten joined Kneecap for ‘Higher Means To Dwell’ at their Finsbury Park present in London – watch under.
The outside present goes down at the moment (July 5), with Fontaines set to prime the invoice of their greatest headline present to this point. Amyl & The Sniffers, Blondshell, Been Stellar and Cardinals spherical out the line-up.
Throughout Kneecap’s set within the afternoon, they addressed the continued controversy surrounding them and continued to talk up for the individuals of Palestine, whereas being crucial of the UK authorities.
They spoke about the pro-Palestinian monitor report of Irish artists during the last two years and welcomed Chatten onto the stage for a rendition of ‘Higher Means To Dwell’, their 2023 collaboration. Watch a clip from the efficiency right here:
“I am on the upside of the seesaw”@KNEECAPCEOL x @GrianChatten pic.twitter.com/GRqxqOZr8q
— Andrew Trendell (@AndrewTrendell) July 5, 2025
Kneecap and Chatten have beforehand carried out the music stay quite a few occasions, notably at Glastonbury 2024, at the Belfast SSE Area and on Eire’s Late Late Present.
Throughout Kneecap’s set, they addressed the authorized points they’ve been dealing with in current weeks. “It’s good to be again in London and never be up in courtroom,” Mo Chara stated. “It’s been a mad few weeks lads, Jesus fucking Christ. Take a look at the fucking state of us.”
“It’s inhumane, I’m considering of latest issues to say throughout a genocide,” he continued, earlier than talking about individuals in Gaza being starved and bombed from the sky. “It doesn’t matter how huge or small our viewers is, we’ll at all times use our platform.”
Kneecap performed to 750 individuals in Plymouth on Friday night time (July 4) and in entrance of a forty five,000 crowd in Finsbury Park, they added: “The message will at all times be the identical: free free Palestine.”
“Kneecap gigs have at all times been about inclusion so I’d like to make sure all undercover cops have a pleasant time,” he added. “You depressing cunts.”
Additionally they took digs at Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his makes an attempt to have Kneecap faraway from Glastonbury this 12 months, main the group in chants of “fuck Keir Starmer”, whereas clarifying: “It’s not the English individuals we don’t like, it’s the English authorities.”
Kneecap’s highly-anticipated Glastonbury set proved to be controversial, with the BBC deciding to drag their livestream protection of it simply hours earlier than they went on. They hit out at Starmer throughout that set too and reiterated their assist for the individuals of Palestine. Avon and Somerset Police later stated they have been investigating the set, as nicely Bob Vylan’s, below doable prison fees.
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 courtroom and been granted unconditional bail, and the opposite into alleged on-stage feedback during which the band stated “the one good Tory is a lifeless Tory”, for which they won’t face any additional motion.
The band have persistently denied supporting Hamas or Hezbollah, and say they don’t incite or condone violence, describing the authorized motion in opposition to them as “a carnival of distraction”.
Fontaines, in the meantime, invited a pro-Palestine group onto the stage with them throughout their set at Roskilde 2025 in Denmark this week. They led chants in each English and Arabic and praised Bob Vylan after their divisive Glastonbury efficiency.
