(28 Jun 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pilton, Somerset – 28 June 2025
1. Various of crowds with Palestinian and Irish flags
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jack and Brooke, festival-goers from York:
Jack: "I think that’s what Glastonbury has always been about really, people putting messages out there. For them to censor this out of, yeah, it seems a bit…"
Brooke: "It kind of lifts people from what they can already do. So like people going for marches in the streets, it feels like it’s not making enough, so people can see it on TV or Instagram and it feels like it pushes it a bit further."
3. Wide of crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael, festival-goer from Ireland:
"Same as always, same as always, I’ve been seeing them since 2019, they will perform the same as they’ve done every year since, always the same message, always the same songs and they will keep going."
5. Tilt up fan holding flag
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rory, festival-goer from Ireland:
"I love Kneecap, I’m Irish, I just love the whole message and the music, so why wouldn’t I be here?"
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Talal, festival-goer from London:
"I think it’s a distraction from the real story. I think they’re being used as kind of a scapegoat really. Artists have always spoken out politically and it’s an important thing, it’s actually vital that artists are free to speak their mind and speak their feelings without feeling like they are restricted and censored, otherwise the art isn’t pure."
8. Palestinian flag
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Talal, festival-goer from London:
"The rare occasion that someone speaks out, such as Kneecap or many other artists, it’s like a breath of fresh air and you realise ‘oh I’m not insane, the world is insane.’ What the hell is going on?"
10. Pan of crowd
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Talal, festival-goer from London:
"It almost brings me to tears. Yeah, it’s crazy, the horrors that we are seeing every day on our phones, imagine living it. Of course people are here in their hordes waving the Palestine flag because that’s the truth. All people deserve to be free and have their rights."
12. Wide of crowd
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam, festival-goer from Norwich:
"I think they have obviously gone a bit close to the mark sometimes but if you are an Irish person living in Ireland you’ve lived a hundred years of oppression in Northern Ireland, so why can’t you say what you feel is right?"
14. Wide of crowd
15. Wide crowd chanting (English) “Free, free Palestine.”
16. Various STILLS Kneecap performing (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
STORYLINE:
Irish-language rap group Kneecap gave an impassioned performance for tens of thousands of fans on Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival despite criticism by British politicians and a terror charge for one of the trio.
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, has been charged under the Terrorism Act with supporting a proscribed organization for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag at a concert in London in November. The rapper, who was charged under the anglicized version of his name, Liam O’Hanna, is on unconditional bail before a further court hearing in August.
"Glastonbury, I’m a free man!" Ó hAnnaidh shouted as Kneecap took the stage at Glastonbury’s West Holts field, which holds about 30,000 people. Dozens of Palestinian flags flew in the capacity crowd as the show opened with an audio montage of news clips referring to the band’s critics and legal woes.
Several Kneecap gigs have since been canceled as a result of the controversy.
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