Broadcast of KNEECAP's Electric Picnic set now available on TG4

Broadcast highlights of KNEECAP's Electric Picnic performance have been made freely available to view worldwide by TG4.

The 13-minute highlight compilation includes performances of the rap trio's recent single 'Sayōnara' along with 'The Recap' and 'H.O.O.D'. It also includes an Irish-language interview with band members Móglaí Bap and DJ Provaí.

TG4 player is also airing their 90-minute Beo ón Electric Picnic programme, which highlights the line-ups at An Chollchoill/Hazlewood and An Puball Gaeilge stages.

Acoustic sessions and exclusive performances from Amble, Bláithín Mhic Cana with Piaras Ó Lorcáin, IMLÉ, John Spillane, Eve Belle, The Donnys, Caolan Ryan and more are also featured.

The programme also contains interviews with various artists, festivalgoers and organisers, including a conversation with festival director Melvin Benn about Irish-language artists at Electric Picnic, KNEECAP and other artists' activism and creating Irish-language spaces at the festival among other topics.

This comes after KNEECAP's Glastonbury set in June was not broadcast live on the BBC over editorial concerns around impartiality.

UK Conservative politicians had pressured the BBC not to broadcast the set due to terrorism charges faced by band member Mo Chara for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag during a London concert in November 2024.

KNEECAP argued that these charges are politically motivated due to their outspoken activism for Gaza.

Prior to Electric Picnic, Benn spoke to Hot Press about adding KNEECAP to the lineup.

"We’d always planned to announce them after Glastonbury and that’s what we did," Benn said.

"It is, of course, a total expression of solidarity with Kneecap and their position on Palestine. Whereas our peoples are the same in many ways, the difference in political culture between Ireland and the UK is striking. There’s just an openness here."