Kneecap‘s defiant headline set at Wide Awake – which came only days after Mo Chara was charged with a terror offence – saw them speak out about the ongoing conflict in Gaza and being silenced ahead of Glastonbury.

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Earlier this week, Mo Chara was charged by the Metropolitan Police for allegedly displaying a flag in support of proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig last year. The band have denied supporting either Hamas or Hezbollah, and stated that they would not incite or condone violence against any individuals. They have also argued that the footage of the moment had been taken out of context.

The Belfast hip-hop trio had previously called the legal action against 27-year-old musician (real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) a “carnival of distraction”, and have maintained it was “political policing” and that they were not the story, rather, “Genocide is”.

Those comments were echoed at last night’s (May 23) Brockwell Park gig, where Chara took to the stage alongside Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí to say the charge was designed to “silence” them ahead of their performance at Glastonbury this summer.

“I went for an interview with the counter-terror police and within days they came to a verdict that they were going to charge me,” he said at the south London event. “Never has it been that quick.

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