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A-PROMOTIONS PRÉSENTE : KNEECAP“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear” - Nina Simone How do you respond to a year that saw a lifetime’s worth of chaos explode? Courtroom dramas and blacklisting, media madness and political policing, prime ministers intervening in festival lineups, attempts at censorship and stifling of expression? Kneecap aren’t having any of that. There is finer art to be made. So, how do you respond? As the saying goes: is fearr lúbadh ná briseadh - it’s better to bend than to break. Kneecap return in 2026 to bend genre, language, and rules. There will be no backing down. No reticence. No cowardice. No retreat. The most talked about artists in the world are turning the page. A new chapter, new sounds, new manifestos. The Belfast-Derry trio are back with a blistering album that revels in darkness while bursting through the void with illuminated revery. This is FENIAN. Produced by Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C., Kae Tempest, Wet Leg), FENIAN upends expectations with an incredibly expansive sonic palate, traversing acid house, trip-hop, dubstep, and more, re-announcing Kneecap as utterly authentic and exceptionally creative artists of their generation. Masters of rave and rap theatre, FENIAN represents Kneecap’s most sophisticated exploration of language and sounds. What began in 2017 as a DIY project with rudimentary hip-hop beats, has grown into a global movement. With FENIAN, Kneecap reclaim their creative territory developing massively along their own singular trajectory while the headlines were blasting and festival sound systems were blaring. Following their BAFTA and Sundance-award-winning self-titled biopic, their critically acclaimed debut album, Fine Art, a Coachella performance that changed the culture and saw Kneecap centred as artists at the fore of the Palestine solidarity movement, a breathtaking Glastonbury performance, and becoming the most talked about rap group on the planet - never-mind the protests, murals, court appearances, countless front pages, relentless global media coverage, and massive shows around the world - Kneecap have resolved to do what they do best: make incredible tunes that bring thousands upon thousands of fans together to tear the place up. More darkness. More confrontation. More craic. More energy. More solidarity. More absolute bangers. And more fuel for the unrelenting engine that powers this unstoppable force. For their remarkable second album, Kneecap have come out fighting. Beginning with a rallying call for the Irish language in ‘Éire go Deo’, then comes ‘Smugglers & Scholars’, smashing open the doors of the album. This is a sonic balaclava, loaded with menace and fearlessness. Then it’s off to the ‘Carnival’, a middle finger to the political, media, and police distraction tactics that saw a spotlight shine on Kneecap in the midst of a genocide, all while concocting an immediate earworm of a chorus. ‘Palestine (feat. Fawzi)’ is potentially Kneecap’s most powerful track to date