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Due to huge ticket demand, MG Live, I OH YOU & Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce a second Melbourne date and a Sydney venue upgrade for Irish rap group Kneecap on their debut visit to Australia next March.

With the critically acclaimed semi-fictionalised film Kneecap currently playing at the Melbourne International Film Festival this week, the hype for Kneecap in Melbourne continues with a second 170 Russell, Melbourne tour date is confirmed for Thursday 13 March – on sale now via frontiertouring.com/kneecap. ​ The first 170 Russell, Melbourne show on Friday 14 March is now sold out.

Following further high ticket demand, the Sydney show is now being upgraded from the Metro Theatre to the UNSW Roundhouse on the current date, Saturday 15 March. ​ Existing ticket holders for the original Metro Theatre venue do not need to take action – all tickets remain valid for the UNSW Roundhouse venue. ​ Tickets are on sale now via frontiertouring.com/kneecap.

Kneecap – Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí – blend their satirical yet socially conscious Irish and English lyrics with reality and absurdity. Although a figment of the band’s imagination, the genre shifting Fine Art album is certainly real in its rawness and demand to provoke emotion. ​ ​

Shifting musical styles throughout the album like a boozy night out, Kneecap interpolate ethereal Irish folk songs to bass-heavy bouncing dubstep. Delivering a fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and thought inducing album all at once. ​ Fine Art includes the singles ‘Love Making’, ‘Sick In The Head’ and ‘Better Way To Live’. ​ ​

“An exhilarating, exaggerated tale of ketamine binges, PSNI run-ins and raucous sell-out gigs, deftly managing a tonal tightrope that keeps the story grounded in reality, despite its outlandish elements.” – Sight and Sound

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About Kneecap – the film

​A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this rowdy biopic that tracks their fictionalised origins and their real-life crusade to protect the Gaeilge language.

Adopting the stage names Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, low-level drug dealers Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh and Naoise Ó Cairealláin team up with schoolteacher J.J. Ó Dochartaigh to form Kneecap, a rap group who find themselves unlikely figureheads for the civil rights movement to save the Irish language. Cops, paramilitary groups and the still-present ripples of The Troubles – none will slow down their frenetic energy for drugs, sex, debauchery and their right to speak their native tongue.

​Watching the trio perform shortly after moving to Belfast, former journalist turned writer/director Rich Peppiatt convinced the group, over several pints of Guinness, to star as their own selves in a film – one whose potent political chops eventually also drew in Michael Fassbender (who plays Móglaí Bap’s father). Winner of an Audience Award at Sundance and evoking The Commitments and Trainspotting, Kneecap is at once an ode to the raucous motley crew, a homage to the language they proudly defend and a reminder of the precarious existence of many indigenous languages today.

The film releases in Australian cinemas on Thursday 29 August via Madman Entertainment.

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A band who refuses to shy away, don’t miss riotous rap trio Kneecap as they make their game-changing Australian debut in March 2025.

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KNEECAP
​AUSTRALIAN TOUR
​MARCH 2025

Presented by MG Live, I OH YOU & Frontier Touring

ALL SHOWS ON SALE NOW
​via frontiertouring.com/kneecap

ALL SHOWS 18+

Wednesday 12 March
​The Brightside | Brisbane, QLD
​oztix.com.au

Thursday 13 March
​170 Russell | Melbourne, VIC
​NEW SHOW ON SALE NOW
​moshtix.com.au

Friday 14 March
​170 Russell | Melbourne, VIC
​SOLD OUT

Saturday 15 March
​UNSW Roundhouse | Sydney, NSW
​VENUE UPGRADE (Prev. Metro Theatre, Sydney)
​moshtix.com.au

Monday 17 March
​Freo Social | Fremantle, WA
​moshtix.com.au

Patrons are advised to purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers.

We cannot guarantee any ticket purchase made through any means other than the official ticketing agents listed on the Frontier website.

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Follow KNEECAP
​WEB – FACEBOOK – INSTAGRAM
 TIKTOK – YOUTUBE
 SPOTIFY – APPLE MUSIC

frontiertouring.com/kneecap – facebook.com/frontiertouring
​instagram.com/frontiertouring – x.com/frontiertouring

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AMNPLIFY – DB