KNEECAP release ‘Love Making’ today! It’s the last single to be released ahead of their forthcoming debut album ‘Fine Art.’
Combining the spirit of the early ’90s rave scene with the frenetic energy of the 21st century club music, ‘Love Making’ sees the Belfast trio, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, bring the swing in all the right places while still managing to bounce along on a big bottom end, or as the band simply put it, it’s “baby making music, not much else to define here, inspired by 90s garage tunes.”
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After taking this year’s Sundance Film Festival by storm, with their self-titled, Rich Peppiatt directed, semi-biopic film starring Michael Fassbender – notably the festival’s first Irish language film, and subsequent winner of ‘The Audience Award: NEXT’ presented by Adobe. The Kneecap trio made up of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí, followed with their US TV debut, on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, where they performed previous single ‘Sick In The Head’.
Kneecap return to Europe and the U.K. for a run of summer festival appearances, including Glastonbury Festival. In the Autumn, there is a three-night residency at Vicar Street in Dublin, U.K. headline run announced. and head back to the U.S. in the autumn for another headline tour.
The self-titled film also has its London premiere on 6th June at Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly as part of The Sundance Film Festival (London).
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When Mo Chara, Moglaí Bap and DJ Provaí – aka Belfast’s finest Kneecap – entered the studio with producer Toddla T in the summer of 2023, they quickly decided to scrap everything they had already prepared for the album they were about to record. Instead, they decided to build a pub together.
Built on a West Belfast side street, The Rutz is a community boozer, in that the entire community uses it. All human life is inside, either thriving, striving or skiving. There’s people just trying to get served at the bar or up on the stage performing; others are slumped in darkened corners or emerging bleary eyed and coke smeared from the toilets. Religious affiliations are irrelevant and the chatter is a intoxicating blur of English and Irish.
Although the pub is currently just a figment of the band’s imagination, all of the action on Kneecap’s exhilarating first album – Fine Art – takes place in The Rutz. Like the band themselves, Fine Art is fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and genuinely thought provoking. It’s genius is to immerse you in a world thus far unrepresented in modern music.
Across the record’s twelve tracks and the interconnecting moments between them (recorded by the band and friends including DJ Annie Mac), the pub comes to life vividly, providing the perfect backdrop for the cast of characters that join the dots throughout the album. From the moment the idea was born back in Toddla T’s studio, it was the obvious location to base the world of Kneecap in.
Kneecap are half-way through embarking on their sold out North American tour. They will be visiting Europe and the UK later this year, with several summer festival appearances including Glastonbury Festival.
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