Kneecap venue upgrades in Sydney & Melbourne to huge demand

Due to huge ticket demand, MG Live, I OH YOU & Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce a second Melbourne date and a Sydney venue upgrade for Irish rap group Kneecap on their debut visit to Australia next March.

With the critically acclaimed semi-fictionalised film Kneecap currently playing at the Melbourne International Film Festival this week, the hype for Kneecap in Melbourne continues with a second 170 Russell, Melbourne tour date is confirmed for Thursday 13 March - on sale now via frontiertouring.com/kneecap. The first 170 Russell, Melbourne show on Friday 14 March is now sold out.

Following further high ticket demand, the Sydney show is now being upgraded from the Metro Theatre to the UNSW Roundhouse on the current date, Saturday 15 March. Existing ticket holders for the original Metro Theatre venue do not need to take action – all tickets remain valid for the UNSW Roundhouse venue. Tickets are on sale now via frontiertouring.com/kneecap.

Kneecap - Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí - blend their satirical yet socially conscious Irish and English lyrics with reality and absurdity. Although a figment of the band’s imagination, the genre shifting Fine Art album is certainly real in its rawness and demand to provoke emotion.

Shifting musical styles throughout the album like a boozy night out, Kneecap interpolate ethereal Irish folk songs to bass-heavy bouncing dubstep. Delivering a fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and thought inducing album all at once. Fine Art includes the singles ‘Love Making’, ‘Sick In The Head’ and ‘Better Way To Live’.

About Kneecap – the film:

A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this rowdy biopic that tracks their fictionalised origins and their real-life crusade to protect the Gaeilge language.

Adopting the stage names Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, low-level drug dealers Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh and Naoise Ó Cairealláin team up with schoolteacher J.J. Ó Dochartaigh to form Kneecap, a rap group who find themselves unlikely figureheads for the civil rights movement to save the Irish language. Cops, paramilitary groups and the still-present ripples of The Troubles – none will slow down their frenetic energy for drugs, sex, debauchery and their right to speak their native tongue.

Watching the trio perform shortly after moving to Belfast, former journalist turned writer/director Rich Peppiatt convinced the group, over several pints of Guinness, to star as their own selves in a film – one whose potent political chops eventually also drew in Michael Fassbender (who plays Móglaí Bap’s father). Winner of an Audience Award at Sundance and evoking The Commitments and Trainspotting, Kneecap is at once an ode to the raucous motley crew, a homage to the language they proudly defend and a reminder of the precarious existence of many indigenous languages today.

The film releases in Australian cinemas on Thursday 29 August via Madman Entertainment.