KNEECAP perform in Cuba as part of the Nuestra América Convoy

KNEECAP performed a show in Havana this weekend following the arrival of the Nuestra América Convoy. The band, who have joined the convoy and arrived in Cuba with aid on March 21, have shared the stage with former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and US streamer Hasan Piker.

KNEECAP joined the Nuestra América Convoy, travelling to Cuba to deliver critical aid in response to a US-imposed siege. The band's mobilisation comes shortly before the release of their third album, Fenian, due out on April 24.

KNEECAP's participation is a response to a January executive order by the Trump administration that imposed tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, an action designed to cut off fuel and supplies to the island. The US President has even suggested leveraging this crisis towards a potential US-led regime change in Cuba.

The Nuestra América Convoy aims to break the siege and deliver aid, with its website stating that the "consequences of the US siege are lethal, for newborns and parents, for the elderly and the sick."

KNEECAP recently announced on X that they had gathered over 200 kg of critical medicines to bring to the Cuban people, stating: "As the Taoiseach heads to Washington to shake the hand of a warmonger, we'll be in Cuba, where the island is being strangled and starved by the man who'll be handed a shamrock."

KNEECAP's convoy to Cuba was alongside UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and American left-wing political commentator and Twitch streamer, Hasan Piker. They were joined by numerous other notable figures, such as Columbian politician Clara López, Spanish political scientist Pablo Iglesias, American activist Chris Smalls, and Brazilian humanitarian Thiago Ávila.

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