Kneecap have officially announced details of a huge show at Wembley Arena in London – marking the trio’s largest English show yet.
The hip-hop group will perform at the 12,500 capacity venue on Thursday 18 September as they look to survive and even thrive after their recent controversy.
Speaking on their social media’s, the band said: “All London heads… Our biggest ever headline show outside of Ireland will take place on September 18th at the OVO Wembley Arena… The belly of the beast – let’s go!”
All London heads…
Our biggest ever headline show outside of Ireland will take place on September 18th at the OVO Wembley Arena.
– Pre-sale is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10am in our WhatsApp channel.
– General sale is 10am this Friday.
The belly of the beast – let’s go! pic.twitter.com/hodAF5VePr
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) June 3, 2025
Tickets for the show will go on sale at 10am this Friday (June 6) and pre-sale options will be available at the same time tomorrow. Head here to buy tickets to the gig and check out any further details.
Kneecap have a busy remaining six months of 2025, despite the recent calls for them to be “cancelled”. Following on from the largest Irish language gig in Belfasts history last year, they look to continue this momentum by putting on huge shows in both Belfast and Finsbury Park, London this year, supporting Fontaines DC.
Despite many calls from the media and politicians to have their future festival appearances axed, the trio remain on the line-up for Glastonbury. TRNSMT have been the only main British festival to so far remove them. The Irish group responded to this in true Kneecap fashion. Instantly they announced a new gig at Glasgow’s 02 Academy, which sold out in less than 30 seconds.
The constant noise surrounding the politically-charged group stems from their Coachella performance earlier this year. On stage, they openly called for a “Free Palestine” and criticised the Israeli administration.
Due to England and America being open allies of Israel at the time, this led to controversy and calls for cancellation. Since then, videos resurfaced of the band saying at past live shows “Up Hamas! Up Hezbollah!” which are both deemed terrorist groups in the UK.
This led to member Mo Chara being investigated and charged with a “terror offence”. Releasing a statement in response to the charge, Kneecap said: “We deny this ‘offence’ and will vehemently defend ourselves. This is political policing. This is a carnival of distraction. We are not the story. Genocide is. As they profit from genocide, they use an ‘anti-terror law’ against us for displaying a flag thrown on stage.”
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) May 22, 2025
Having already headlined Wide Awake festival this summer, Kneecap now look forward to appearances at 2000Trees Festival in Cheltenham, a co-headline slot at PVRIS, and of course their performance on the Woodies stage at Glastonbury.
As the controversies keep piling up, Kneecap just keep responding with more gigs… and the fans are responding back. Whether it’s the Glasgow show selling out in 30 seconds, or over 40 artists signing an open-letter in support, Kneecap’s popularity does not look like it’ll dip anytime soon.
