KNEECAP announce in-store Q&A at Tower Records in June

Belfast hip-hop trio KNEECAP have announced an in-store Q&A at Tower Records, Dawson Street on Friday 21 June.

Fans must pre-order KNEECAP’s forthcoming album Fine Art, which will be released on June 14, on either vinyl or CD, in order to attend the exclusive event.

The group will be in conversation with Donal Fallon, a historian and writer based in Dublin who has recently interviewed members of The Pogues and Martin Hayes at the Féile MOTH earlier this month.

Fine Art will be released via independent London-based label Heavenly Recordings, who the West Belfast group signed to in September.

Produced by Toddla T, the album "seamlessly merges Irish with English and satire with socially conscious lyrics", and "is fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and genuinely thought provoking," according to its official description.

KNEECAP member, Mo Chara, has spoken about English DJ and producer Toddla T's impact on the album, and that when they first arrived at the studio, they scrapped everything they had previously prepared for the album.

"T’s idea was to tell the story of KNEECAP,” He explained. “So the record was conceived as the listener stepping into KNEECAP’s world.”

“That’s where the idea came to set the 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.”

KNEECAP's most recent single from the LP, ‘Love Making’, was released earlier this month, joining ‘Sick in the Head’ and title track of the album ‘Fine Art’ as the only songs from the album currently released.

The rap triad will be performing in the Heineken Big Top at the Galway Arts Festival on July 18, and have live shows scheduled in Vicar Street, Dublin on October 29, 30, and 31 this year.

Check out the music video for 'Love Making':