Run The Jewels to bring their Trump-baiting hip hop to Field Day

Run The Jewels are the latest artists to be announced for Victoria Park’s Field Day festival, fresh from their Donald Trump-baiting pre-inauguration show in Washington D.C. last week.

The American duo are well known for their political activism – in particular Killer Mike, who became a prominent supporter of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign following their six-part video series of conversations. (The senator from Vermont confessed in a 2016 GQ piece that “the name got me a little bit nervous. But Killer Mike has never killed anybody. It’s just, he’s a killer rapper.”)

Run The Jewels could be described as a supergroup within the hip-hop world: Killer Mike already had five studio albums out, as well as guest spots on Outkast’s seminal Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below albums, when he banded together with twenty-year rap veteran El-P in 2013.

Their latest album Run the Jewels 3 was released last Christmas Eve and features recent single 2100, which asks “How long before the hate that we hold / Lead us to another Holocaust?”

For those who crave something less hard-hitting, new choices from this final announcement include the mellow piano-pop of Rae Morris and a welcome return to performance from brooding Glaswegian indie lifers, Arab Strap. Thee Oh Sees, Lady Leshurr and BEAK> (who count Portishead’s Geoff Barrow among their ranks) also join the bill.

Acts already announced include headliner Aphex Twin (who will play

), up-and-coming Irish singer-songwriter Áine Cahill, and Syrian folk hero Omar Souleyman. The full list of performers can be found on

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This story was updated at 11am on Tuesday 24 January, to add newly announced names for the festival.