A efficiency by Belfast rap trio Kneecap on the Eden Mission has been cancelled.
It comes after a row wherein one of many group appeared to name for Tory MPs to be killed and one other appeared to shout “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” in historic footage of a gig.
A spokesperson for Eden Periods, which organises the gigs on the Cornwall venue, stated: “Eden Periods Restricted introduced at present that the Kneecap present at Eden Mission scheduled for July 4, 2025 has been cancelled.
“Ticket purchasers might be contacted straight and might be absolutely refunded.
“The refund process will commence from Wednesday, April 30 2025. Refunds will be processed against the original payment cards used. Purchasers should allow six working days for funds to be received into their accounts.”
On Monday, the band apologised to the households of murdered MPs Sir David Amess and Jo Cox after footage emerged of considered one of its members showing to say “kill your local MP”.
In an announcement posted on Instagram, the group, comprising Liam Og O Hannaidh, Naoise O Caireallain and JJ O Dochartaigh, stated they “reject any suggestion that we might search to incite violence in opposition to any MP or particular person.
“Kneecap’s message has always been – and remains – one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs. No smear campaign will change that,” they added.
The footage had been “exploited and weaponised,” they stated.
However the Prime Minister’s official spokesman known as the assertion “half-hearted” and urged them to make a fuller apology.
He stated Downing Avenue “fully reject within the strongest potential phrases the feedback that they’ve made, significantly in relation to MPs and intimidation in addition to clearly the state of affairs within the Center East.
“It’s right that the police are looking into these videos.”
Mrs Badenoch stated she thought they had been apologising “because they realise that people don’t like the kind of things that they’ve been saying” and are “worried they’re going to lose their slot at Glastonbury”.
Picture:Sir David Amess. File pic: PA
Picture:Jo Cox was murdered in 2016. Pic: PA
Mrs Badenoch blocked a £14,250 funding award for the group whereas she was enterprise secretary, just for the cash to be handed over in November final yr after the brand new UK authorities conceded withholding the cash had been illegal.
Katie Amess, the daughter of Sir David Amess, instructed the UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee, she was comfortable to satisfy the band, as “I’m certain they’ve by no means met a sufferer of such a heinous crime, and they also’re not pondering it via.
“If they were to meet with me and to see and to hear the pain and the torture and the torment that I go through every day, I’m sure they would feel terribly guilty.”
The Metropolitan Police are assessing footage from a November 2023 gig showing to indicate one member of the group saying: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”, together with a video clip from one other live performance in November 2024 wherein a member of the band appeared to shout “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” – teams that are banned as terrorist organisations within the UK.
In Monday’s assertion, Kneecap insisted they’ve “never supported” Hamas or Hezbollah.
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