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“This is about the threats that shouldn\u2019t be made,” Keir Starmer says ahead of Irish trio’s festival performance next weekend<\/p>\n
\n\tBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer has weighed in on Kneecap\u2019s upcoming Glastonbury gig, saying that the Irish trio should not play the festival.<\/p>\n
\n\tKneecap has drawn controversy on both sides of the Atlantic with their unbridled support for Palestine, including at Coachella, where the trio\u2019s pro-Palestine messaging was\u00a0cut from the festival\u2019s livestream\u00a0on the first weekend.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn May, Kneecap\u2019s Mo Chara was charged with a terror offense stemming from an onstage incident at a London concert in November 2024; Chara, who is currently out on bail, allegedly displayed a Hezbollah flag and yelling \u201cup Hamas, up Hezbollah,\u201d as well as \u201cthe only good Tory is a dead Tory,\u201d during that show.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeveral U.K. politicians\u00a0have recently called for Kneecap to be removed from future festival lineups, including Glastonbury; the trio was subsequently removed from the Scottish festival TRNSMT due to police safety concerns. However, Kneecap is still scheduled to perform next Saturday at Glastonbury, with the gig broadcast live (as of now) by the BBC.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAhead of Glastonbury, Starmer was asked by the Sun<\/em> whether Kneecap should be allowed to play at the iconic festival. \u201cNo, I don\u2019t, and I think we need to come down really clearly on this,\u201d Starmer said. \u201cThis is about the threats that shouldn\u2019t be made, I won\u2019t say too much because there\u2019s a court case on, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tConservative party leader Kem Badenoch echoed Starmer\u2019s sentiment and further criticized the BBC\u2019s decision to broadcast Kneecap\u2019s set, writing on social media, \u201cAs a publicly funded platform, the BBC should not be rewarding extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “This is about the threats that shouldn\u2019t be made,” Keir Starmer says ahead of Irish trio’s festival performance next weekend British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has weighed in on Kneecap\u2019s upcoming Glastonbury gig, saying that the Irish trio should not play the festival. Kneecap has drawn controversy on both sides of the Atlantic with their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[336,1357,1356,1355,1354,1353],"class_list":{"0":"post-9278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-british","9":"tag-gig","10":"tag-glastonbury","11":"tag-kneecaps","12":"tag-minister","13":"tag-prime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}