KNEECAP announce major homecoming show at Belfast's SSE Arena

As KNEECAP unveil their long-awaited debut album Fine Art today, the Irish hip-hop group have announced a major homecoming show at Belfast's SSE Arena on Saturday, December 21.

The gig will cap off a landmark year for the trio – featuring the release of their album and their highly anticipated feature film, KNEECAP, directed by Rich Peppiatt.

“We’d been writing an album for around two years," KNEECAP's Mo Chara has said of Fine Art. "We’d grown a lot quicker as a band than we were developing our production skills. We were getting big crowds at concerts and we knew needed to go for a bigger producer. When we got into the studio with Toddla T, we scrapped every song we had and started from complete scratch.

"T’s idea was to tell the story of Kneecap," he continues. "So the record was conceived as the listener stepping into Kneecap’s world. That’s where the idea came to set whole thing in a pub. You walk into a pub at the start, there’s someone offering you a drink, there’s a singsong… really, it’s us taking you by the hand and leading you into our world.”

Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 21, at 10am. See Ticketmaster or SSE Arena's website for more information.

The KNEECAP feature film is out in Irish cinemas on Thursday, August 8. Listen to Fine Art below: