Kneecap performance at Wide Awake festival goes ahead
Kneecap came on stage at the Wide Awake festival at Brockwell Park in south London after videos of the Irish rap trio being condemned were shown on a screen.
The message "free Palestine" was shown on the screen and was met with cheers from the crowd.
One of the group said: "Thank you very much. They tried to stop this gig."
And one was heard saying: "Honestly lads you have no idea how close we were to being pulled off this gig."
One of the trio thanked their fans for supporting them.
Liam O hAnnaidh said "they are trying to silence us" after he was charged with a terror offence over the alleged display of a Hezbollah flag.
He told the crowd at Brockwell Park in south London: "I went for an interview with the counter-terror police and within days they came to a verdict that they were going to charge me, never has it been that quick.
"And the reason it was that quick was because Glastonbury is just around the corner, they're trying to silence us."
Members of the trio urged supporters to gather outside court for the first hearing of their bandmate.
One member was heard saying: "If anybody's about on June 18…we're all going to gather outside the Westminster court to show support."
One of the trio was heard telling the crowd: "Anybody who's free on June 18- get a big bag of Ket and we'll go on the steps of Westminster."
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