Summer festival season officially kicked off on Friday at Wide Awake, an indie and electronic festival held in London’s Brockwell Park. Based on the crowd, here are my predictions for the items that are going to dominate the fashions on the field over the coming few months: Irish flag balaclavas, Ireland jerseys, and Palestine flags.
Maybe that had more to do with this year’s headliner, Kneecap, the bawdy rap trio from Belfast who, in recent weeks, have found themselves at the center of a political firestorm. On May 21st, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh—who goes by the moniker Mo Chara—was charged by British police with a terror offense relating to a video from a November 2024 concert…