Kneecap will play 3Arena on Wednesday, 17 December 2025.
At Christmas 9,000 people came to the SSE in Belfast and now to bring a Kneecap show to the capital's biggest venue with young and old embracing the Irish language….we fu*king love it. Your favourite republican hoods are coming back to Baile Átha Cliath and there'll be more bombs than 1916. They used to say to us "rapping in Irish? It'll never work!". Our revenge will be the laughter of our children....and of course Celtic! Kneecap
Kneecap is a global phenomenon. Bursting out from a squat in Belfast, Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, and DJ Próvaí are spearheading a moment in Irish culture, music, language, and cinema that has brought them to sensational levels. All it took was a generational talent to tear through conventions, expectations, and records. This is hip-hop at its most exciting - a potent and revolutionary force, smashing bans, barricades, and the occasional bottle of Buckfast.
Their fiercely intelligent breakthrough concept album, Fine Art (2024), was produced by Toddla T, and set across a raucous night out, traversing a fantasy pub called The Rutz, with adventures spilling out on to the streets of Belfast and London, during ketamine and cocaine binges gone wrong (and right), and featuring guest appearances from Lankum’s Radie Peat, Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten and Tom Coll, alongside Jelani Blackman and Annie Mac.
Critically acclaimed, and earning plaudits from The Irish Times, NME, The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone Magazine, Dazed, and multiple other global outlets, Fine Art further launched Kneecap on to huge stages and headfirst into mosh-pits across Europe and the US, as well as into the studios of Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.
Live, Kneecap continues to electrify festivals and venues around the world. A morning gig at Glastonbury’s Woodsies stage in the summer of 2024 filled the tent with thousands of fans, their festival appearance capped off with an epic late-night show at Shangri-La, where Noel Gallagher waited backstage to heap praise on the group. Their autumn US tour saw sold out gigs across multiple American cities. 2024 was capped off with a series of sold out shows across Ireland, including five consecutive dates at Vicar Street, yet another sold out run of gigs across England, Scotland and Wales, and a massive arena show in their hometown of Belfast sold out to 9,000 people.
2025 will see them join forces with Fontaines D.C. for a massive outdoor show at Finsbury Park in London, touring Australia and New Zealand, and back in the studio with Toddla T to record their follow-up to Fine Art.
Whether they’re rolling up to Sundance in a police Land Rover, encouraging tens of thousands of young people to learn Irish, breaking box office records in Ireland, suing the British government and giving their winning away, storming the Reading and Leeds festivals with epic main stage sets, Kneecap’s message and mode of unity, community, and carnage, all comes with a revolutionary sound, and blistering live performances that have built a global movement of fans.
