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Kneecap Play First Shows Since Terror Charge: ‘They Tried to Stop This Gig’

Kneecap played their first gigs since member Mo Chara was charged with a terror offense this week, alleging that authorities tried to cancel the shows.

Earlier in the week, Chara – real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – was charged with a terror offense after he allegedly displayed a Hezbollah flag onstage during a show in London late last year. After the charge was made public, the band then played a last-minute gig at the 100 Club in London on Thursday (May 22) before their headline set at the Wide Awake festival in Brockwell Park last night. As well as Kneecap’s headline performance, Wide Awake as a whole was under significant threat in recent weeks, with a local campaign group winning a legal battle against the festival’s organisers, Brockwell Live, with a court ruling that the events didn’t have the correct planning permission.

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