“Controversial Irish Hip-Hop Group Kneecap Parted Ways with Their Booking Agency Independent Artist Group, Sources Confirm to the Hollywood Reporter. It’s Unclear What Led To The Band’s Split From The Agency, Which Took Place Between The First and Second Weekends of the Coachella Music Festival. KneeCap Had Faced Significant Backlash from Jewish Music Executives and”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
It’s Unclear What Led To The Band’s Split From The Agency, Which Took Place Between The First and Second Weekends of the Coachella Music Festival. KneeCap Had Faced Significant Backlash from Jewish Music Executives and Groups After Sharing A “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine” Message Durying Their Coachella Set Last Weekend. After their weekend One Set, The Band Cleimed Coachella Had Censored their Palestine Messages from the Festival’s Official LIVESTREAM. (Weekend Two’s KneeCap Performance Was Not Live-Streamed, But Images of the Onstage Projects Circulated Widly on Social Media.)
A representative for IAG (WHICH COUNTS BILY JOEL, METALLICA AND MARY J. BLIGE ON ITS ARTIST ROSTER) ConfirMed the agency no Longer represents KneeterAp But. IAG WAS FORMED IN 2023 with the Merger of Mid-Sized Agencies Apa and Agi. Kneecap’s Management Didn’t ImmediaTely Reply to Request for Comment. The Group Has A Busy Touring Schedul in the MONTS AHEAD, PLAYING MAJOR FESTIVALS INCLUDING PRIMAVARA Sound in Spain and Glastonbury in England in June.
With the Band’s Having An Opening For Their Booking Agency, The Question Now Becomes Who Will Represent Them, or If They’ll Face Ary “Outrageous” for Coachella’s Organizers AEG and GOLDENVOICE TO HAVE PLATFORMED THEM “AT A TIME OF RECORD LEVELS OF ANTISEMITISM.” The Band’s Critics Have Pointed Towards Kneecap Have Made at Concerts in Support of Hamas and Hezbollah, Both of Which The US Labels as Foreign Terrorist.
KneeCap’s Mo Chara Responed to the Criticism to Rolling Stone On Wednesday, Claiming Thatir Message Is “About [the Israeli government’s] Government’s Sickening Actions, Not Ordinary People. ”
“WE BELIEVE WE HAVE AND OBLIGATION TO USE OUR PLATFORM WHEN WE CAN to RAISE THE Issue of Palestine, and It Was Important For Us to Speak Out at Cochella As The Usa Fun. Israel as they commit genocide in gaza, ”Chara Said.
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