Massive Attack will open Kneecap’s huge London show tonight with a “special audio/visual presentation” in support of Palestine. Find all the details below.
Kneecap are set to play their biggest England gig to date when they take to the stage at the 12,500-capacity OVO Wembley Arena this evening (Thursday September 18). Gurriers will serve as the opening act.
Writing on social media last night (September 17), the Irish rap trio said: “We’re honoured to be welcoming @MassiveAttackUK to our Wembley show tomorrow night with a special audio/visual presentation. Get in early. Free Palestine Forever. 🇵🇸.”
Massive Attack also shared the news, writing: “We’ve been looking forward to Wembley Arena for a long time – Go raibh maith agat.” The trip-hop duo then directed their followers to visit the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the BDS Movement.
You can see the announcement posts here:
A chairde Gael…
We’re honoured to be welcoming @MassiveAttackUK to our Wembley show tomorrow night with a special audio/visual presentation.
Get in early.
Free Palestine Forever. 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/upoAVito95
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) September 17, 2025
Over the summer, Massive Attack announced an alliance of musicians speaking out over Gaza against “intimidations from within” the music industry. Kneecap were among the acts to lend their support, along with the likes of Fontaines D.C., Brian Eno and Garbage.
Massive Attack explained: “This collective action is really about offering some kind of solidarity to those artists who are living day after day in a screen-time genocide, but are worried about using their platforms to express their horror at that because of the level of censorship within their industry or from highly organised external legal bodies, terrifying them and their management teams with aggressive legal actions.”
They added: “The intention is clear and obvious: to silence them.”
The group have boycotted performing in Israel since 1999. Earlier this year, they issued a statement supporting Kneecap and urging the focus to remain on what they called a “genocide” against the Palestinian people: “Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story.”
This came after counter-terrorism police in the UK launched an investigation into Kneecap. Member Mo Chara’s terrorism case was adjourned until next Friday (September 26) at his second court hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London last month.
In the spring, Massive Attack, Brian Eno and other artists signed an open letter to Field Day, urging the event to distance itself from global investment firm KKR. Later, the band were joined by Dua Lipa, Primal Scream, Benedict Cumberbatch and other big names in urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “end UK complicity” in Gaza.
They hit out at the “ugly, unrecognisable” UK government for allowing the arrest of “peaceful citizens” at a Palestine Action demonstration in London last month, writing: “UK civil liberties are trapped in a deeply cynical, manufactured crisis.”
Their headline set in Victoria Park saw Robert Del Naja pay tribute to innocent children and journalists who have lost their lives in conflict. The band also displayed footage of the devastation and of the imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti, declaring that “security will be achieved by one way: by peace”.
They were beckoned on stage by a large swathe of fans waving Palestinian flags when Abdalla gave a lengthy and impassioned introductory speech calling for peace in the Middle East, and an immediate ceasefire alongside the deployment of aid to the people of Gaza.
Meanwhile, Kneecap have announced a live-streamed performance for fans after being forced to cancel their US tour due to the “close proximity of [their] next court hearing”. The show, filmed at a “secret location in Ireland”, will be screened at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York on October 10.
Kneecap’s 2025 UK headline tour kicks off in November, ahead of two sold-out shows at Dublin’s 3Arena the following month. Find any remaining tickets here.
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