How to watch Brian Eno’s Together for Palestine fundraiser at Wembley Arena
Brian Eno’s fundraiser, Together for Palestine, is set to take place at Wembley Arena on September 17th, welcoming some of the biggest names in film and music to London to raise money for a vital cause.
The Together for Palestine benefit concert has been organised by musician Eno, with a core line-up of previously announced musical names including Damon Albarn, King Krule, Bastille, Rina Sawayama, Jamie XX, Hot Chip, Paloma Faith, James Blake and Sampha.
Additional names were added earlier this week, including Florence Pugh, Khalid Abdalla, and Ruth Negga. Paul Weller, who has been vocal about his support for Palestine, will also join alongside musicians such as Amena, Neneh Cherry, Lana Lubany, Madame Gandhi, Sura Abdo, Yasmeen Ayyashi, Ysee, and the London Community Gospel Choir.
The show will also be available on a livestream via Brian Eno’s official YouTube page. Fans are reminded that the landmark night is all in aid of fundraising for Palestine, with charity links available in the synopsis of the video on YouTube.
The synopsis also shares that “all donations will go to Choose Love, with all funds going to support Palestinian-led organisations providing life-saving humanitarian aid, such as Taawon, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, and Palestinian Medical Relief Society.”
The star-studded line-up will also feature broadcaster Laura Whitmore, alongside newly announced presenter for the night, Guz Khan, who said of the event: “When you see kids in Gaza facing bombs instead of books, you realise this can’t be normalised. That silence isn’t an option. That’s why this concert matters. Together for Palestine is about solidarity, love – and saying we see you, we stand with you.”
Advocating for Palestine has been invariably tied to worsening censorship in the industry. Eno touched upon this when explaining, via The Guardian, why he decided to mastermind the event. He said, “More than any other conflict since the birth of the modern communications age, more so even than South Africa in the 1980s, the Israeli occupation of Palestine has been conducted with words and images as well as with bullets and bombs.”
Eno continued, “And for that reason, those artists who oppose the occupation and advocate for justice for Palestinians have been subjected to a cynical, pernicious censorship designed to severely narrow the scope of the stories they can tell.”
He ended the article with a powerful quote: “As the Egyptian-Canadian writer Omar El Akkad says, one day everyone will have always been against this.
The YouTube link below will go live at 19:00 BST. See details of the full line-up below.
The full line-up for Together for Palestine:
- Adnan Joubran
- Amelia Dimoldenberg
- Amena
- Amer Hlehel
- Bastille
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Bilal Hasna
- Brian Eno
- Cat Burns
- Celeste
- Charithra Chandran
- Damon Albarn
- Diana Buttu
- Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- Dr Victoria Rose
- El Far3i
- Elyanna
- Eric Cantona
- Faraj Suleiman
- Florence Pugh
- Francesca Albanese
- Greentea Peng
- Guy Pearce
- Guz Khan
- Hot Chip
- Ibibio Sound Machine
- Inua Ellams
- James Blake
- Jameela Jamil
- Jamie xx
- Khalid Abdalla
- King Krule
- Lana Lubany
- Leigh-Anne
- Laura Whitmore
- London Community Gospel Choir
- Louis Theroux
- Mabel
- Madame Gandhi
- Malak Matar
- Mary Nazzal
- Mehdi Hasan
- Misan Harriman
- Motaz Malhees
- Munroe Bergdorf
- Nadine Shah
- Nai Barghouti
- Neneh Cherry
- Obongjayar
- Paloma Faith
- Paul Weller
- PinkPantheress
- Portishead
- Rachel Chinouriri
- Ramy Youssef
- Rina Sawayama
- Riz Ahmed
- Ruth Negga
- Sama’ Abdulhadi (performing b2b with Jamie XX)
- Sampha
- Saint Levant
- Stephen Kapos
- Sura Abdo
- The London Arab Orchestra
- TRANS VOICES
- Yara Eid
- Yasmeen Ayyashi
- Ysee
- Zainab Jiwa
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