Kneecap fans turned out in force on Friday to support the Irish-language hip-hop trio at their biggest ever festival headline gig, which came just days after a band member was charged with a terror offence.
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh was charged by the Metropolitan Police for allegedly displaying a flag in support of the proscribed Lebanese organization Hezbollah at a gig last year. The band denied the offence, labeling it as “political policing” and a “carnival of distraction” from Gaza, with Óg Ó hAnnaidh claiming the authorities were “trying to silence us” before Glastonbury and urging fans not to be “on the wrong side of history.”
