Kneecap press on with European tour despite Hungary ban and cancelled gigs | Europe
Belfast Hip-Hop triple kneeling, despite the ban on entering Hungary, a series of concerts in Austria and Germany and the intensive examination of the officials in France continues with European tours.
The Irish Language Group will play 40,000 spectators expected a few days after one of its members appeared in a London court on the charges of terrorism at the Rock En Seine Festival, one of the largest live music events in France.
France’s Ministry of Interior, the group, a 460-hectare park Domaina National de Saint-Cloud forbid that the festival “no longer there is no serious risk of discomfort in the public order” after the Paris concert gave a green light to the Paris concert.
Kneecap, in July, has agreed to comply with the rules of behavior after playing the Eurockéennes Festival at Lac de Malfort Nature Conservation Area in July, and since then this code was followed, the Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, French Deputy Caroline Yadan. Yadan wanted the group to be banned from entering the country. “Any excess will be prosecuted immediately, Ret Retailleau said.
Representing the overseas French inhabitants in Parliament, Yadan accused the knee cap of encouraging Islamist terrorism and provoking “Jews’ murder and hatred”.
Last month, the Saint-Cloud Municipal Assembly suffered a subsidy for € 40,000 (£ 35,000) for Rock en Seine during the appearance of the rapper, and said, “Nor does not finance the political action, nor even the demands of the deputies, regardless of their demands and even the calls for MPs,” he said.
Founded in 2017 by Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and Dj Próvaí, Kneecap first made a name for themselves with obscene songs that investigate Irish identity and drug culture. However, at the Coachella Music Festival in California in April, the group invited Israel to investigate the political study when they accused the Palestinian people of genocide.
The images brought an investigation by the 2023 UK tour “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” and “The only good Tor is a dead Tor.
In a later statement, the group apologized to the families of the two British deputies killed and “never aimed to cause injury” and “We never support Hamas or Hezbollah.
Liam óg ó Hannaidh, which was called Mo chara, was welcomed by hundreds of supporters while arriving at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a three -hour hearing on Wednesday. Prosecutors claim that Hannaidh 27, last November, exhibited a flag supporting the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which was banned at a concert in the O2 forum in the town of Kentish in North London last November. Belfast Belfast Hannaidh has not yet objected to the accusation and in unconditional bail.
In some parts of Europe, the reaction to the knee cover was rapid. Shortly after Coachella Furore, the group was uninvited from the hurricane and Southside festivals in Germany on 20 and 22 June; The concerts in Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg were canceled when the British police started investigating the group on the Hezbollah Flag incident in May.
In July, Hungary’s right -wing populist government announced that the series was classified as a national security threat and prohibited it for three years from entering the country. At the beginning of this month, they were planned to take part in the Sziget Festival in Northern Budapest.
On September 1, a concert in Vienna was canceled after the political pressure from Austria’s extreme right freedom party and the conservative ÖVP, the supporter rival live entertainment was canceled by referring to “acute security concerns on behalf of the relevant authorities .. As part of Vienna’s Mobile Open Air Film Festival Volxkino, Kneecap’s BAFTA -winning biopsy was also called.
The group’s appearance in the festivals of the group in Poland, Finland, Norway and Belgium took the lead, and the dieskap will play solo shows sold in Copenhagen and Amsterdam next month.
Copenhagen’s municipal -backed Vega concert venue spokesman Søren Gaden, “We know that Kneecap member is accused of glorifying a terrorist organization,” he said.
Gaden, “Denmark ‘we follow the principle of being innocent until the guilty’ and no conviction was made,” he added. “The group also made a clear statement that they do not support violence against civilians, terrorism or Hamas or Hezbollah organizations.”
Vega’s knee reservation decision, Copenhagen’s child and youth mayor, “pure stupid,” he said criticized. Gaden said: “We fully comply with the Danish laws, including the right to freedom of expression, both at the stage and at the stage.”
Jurry Oortwijn, a spokesman for Amsterdam’s Paradiso venue, said that the cultural center has received strong negative reactions from the public on two kneeling showing that it will host on September 5th and 6th. However, he confirmed that the shows would continue.
Oortwijn said, uz We consciously choose to program knee adding, ”Oortwijn said. “From the belief that a free pop culture should make room for sharp sounds, not for breakfast. Paradiso is a place where criticism is silenced, but dialogue is possible.”
