Kae Tempest joined Kneecap for ‘Irish Goodbye’ at their Crystal Palace Park gig – check out footage of the moment below.
Last night (June 27), the band played their biggest headline gig to date in the capital with special guests including The Mary Wallopers, Fat Dog, Biig Piig, Gurriers, and Madra Salach. The Irish hip-hop trio also surprised the 25,000-strong crowd with the addition of Tempest, who appeared on ‘Fenian‘ track ‘Irish Goodbye’.
When announcing the track back in April, the band’s Móglaí Bap – real name Naoise Ó Cairealláin – took to social media to tell fans that he’d written the lyrics following the death of his mother in 2020, in the aftermath of coming to terms with the “reality of what has happened”.
“Suicide is hard,” he’d said at the time. “When someone is sick with depression and dies by suicide, it’s hard to remember the good moments. You get caught up in the dark times.”
Another moving moment in the gig came when the band paid tribute to late music manager Trevor Dietz. An image of Dietz – who managed Fontaines D.C. – wearing a “fuck Israel” shirt was projected on stage, accompanied by an image of the Palestinian flag and text that read “Trevor forever.”
‘Éire go Deo’
‘Smugglers & Scholars’
‘Carnival’
‘Better Way to Live’
‘Sick in the Head’
‘C.E.A.R.T.A’
‘Gael Phonics’
‘Cold at the Top’
‘Irish Goodbye’ (with Kae Tempest)
‘Occupied 6’
‘An Ra’
‘Get Your Brits Out’
‘Guilty Conscience’
‘No Comment’
‘Sayonara’
‘Your Sniffer Dogs Are Shite’
‘I bhFiacha Linne’
‘Fine Art’
‘Rhino Ket’
‘I’m Flush’
‘Liars Tale’
‘FENIAN’
‘Big Bad Mo’
‘Parful’
‘H.O.O.D’
‘THE RECAP’
