Kneecap part ways with booking agency IAG
Northern Irish Hip-Hop Group Kneecap have parted ways with booking agency Independent Artist Group.
Representatives of the agency confirmed to the American entertainment publisher, The Hollywood Reporter, that they had parted ways with Belfast based The Better Ways To Live singers without revealing why.
Kneecap's management has not replied to queries over the split.
The Guilty Conscience singers, made headlines for their pro-Palestine, anti-Israel pronouncements during the Coachella Music Festival in recent weeks.
The Sick In The Head singers claimed Coachella censored their pro-Palestine messages from the festival's official livestream.
Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine, earlier in the week Kneecap's Mo Chara said that their message is "about (the Israeli) government's sickening actions, not ordinary people."
"We believe we have an obligation to use our platform when we can to raise the issue of Palestine, and it was important for us to speak out at Coachella as the USA is the main funder and supplier of weapons to Israel as they commit genocide in Gaza," Chara said
Kneecap last played in Cork CIty Hall in February 2025, at Vicar Street in Dublin for four nights in October 2024, Electric Picnic 2024 and Galway International Arts Festival 2024. They first played in Dublin in the 3 Olympia, 16 November 2021 and at the Cork Jazz Festival in October 2021.
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