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Fontaines D.C. have shared their new video for ‘Bug’ featuring the stars from the film Bird including Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and more.Andrea Arnold, director of the forthcoming movie, which is out in UK and US cinemas this Friday (November 8), was also at the helm of the music video, that features unseen footage from the film.Fontaines’ music also features prominently in the movie while the band’s guitarist Carlos O’Connell also makes a cameo in Bird.“I’ve loved Fontaines since I first heard them.

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Watch Fontaines D.C. sing Antonio Vega’s ‘Tesoros’ in Spanish in Madrid

Fontaines D.C. covered Antonio Vega’s ‘Tesoros’ in Madrid on Saturday (November 2), with guitarist Carlos O’Connell singing the song in Spanish.The Irish band have just started the European leg of their ‘Romance’ tour, in support of their fourth album of the same name, and arrived in the Spanish capital’s WiZink Center armed with something special for the local crowd.As the below fan-captured clip demonstrates, the band played a version of ‘Tesoros’, a track from Spanish singer-songwriter Antonio Vega’s first album ‘No Me Iré Mañana’ in 1991, with O’Connell, who is half Spanish, taking on two of the song’s verses in its original language while strumming an acoustic guitar.CARLOS SANG IN SPANISH pic.twitter.com/p64nDR1LYR— carla★ saw fontaines (@inmys1eep) November 2, 2024‘Romance’‘Jackie Down The Line’‘Televised Mind’‘A Lucid Dream’‘Roman Holiday’‘Big Shot’‘Death Kink’‘Sundowner’‘Big’‘A Hero’s Death’‘Here’s The Thing’‘Tesoros’‘Bug’‘Horseness Is The Whatness’‘Nabokov’|‘Boys In The Better Land’‘Favourite’‘In The Modern World’‘I Love You’‘Starburster’This week, the band announced a new slate of headline US dates for 2025, consisting of 18 dates in April and May.

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Fontaines D.C. announce 2025 US headline tour

Fontaines D.C. have announced a new slate of headlining US tour dates for next year – see the full list and ticketing details below.The Grian Chatten-led band yesterday (October 29) announced their latest string of tour dates across North America. It comes shortly after the band have just wrapped up their extensive North American tour, which closed with a show in Philadelphia on October 20.

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Fontaines D.C. add huge Cardiff Castle show to summer 2025 UK tour plans

Fontaines D.C. have added a huge Cardiff Castle show to their run of summer 2025 UK tour dates. Find ticket details below.The Grian Chatten-led band will be taking to the stage at the huge venue in Wales on July 30 for a performance to a crowd of over 10,000.For the gig, they’re expected to break out a number of fan favourites from across their discography, as well as multiple tracks from their critically acclaimed latest album ‘Romance’, which arrived earlier this year.The show will see them joined by hip-hop poet and playwright Kae Tempest and London rockers High Vis as special guests.

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Primavera Sound 2025 line-up announced

Primavera Sound have announced the full line-up for their 2025 Barcelona edition with Charli XCX, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter all set to headline.The 23rd edition of the festival, returning to the Parc del Fòrum from June 4-8 in the Spanish city, will also see performances from LCD Soundsystem, FKA Twigs, HAIM, Jamie xx, Fontaines D.C., Beach House, IDLES, Clairo, Turnstile and more.The initial gender-balanced line-up of 147 artists also features TV On The Radio, Sturgill Simpson, ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Floating Points, Stereolab, Spiritualized and Parcels among many more. Check out the full line-up here.A post shared by Primavera Sound (@primavera_sound)Primavera Sound will once again offer a whole week of events across the city, with an opening day, closing party and a parallel programme to be revealed in the coming months.Tickets will be on sale from 11am on Monday October 28, with details and registration available here.This summer’s edition of the acclaimed Barcelona festival saw sets from the likes of Pulp, Lana Del Rey, The National, SZA and Troye Sivan.In a four-star review of the festival, NME concluded: “After a weekend in its midst, it’s not hard to see why Primavera Sound is so beloved.

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Fontaines D.C. announce 2025 Japan, Australia and New Zealand tour dates

Fontaines D.C. have announced new tour dates for Japan, Australia and New Zealand – check out the full list below.Last night (October 22), the Dublin band took to social media to announce their new slate of tour dates, which will see them hit the Asia Pacific region between February 2025 and March 2025 for a total of nine shows: two in Japan, six in Australia and one in New Zealand.The tour will kick off on February 21 in Osaka, before Grain Chatten and co.

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Liam Gallagher hits back at critics of Oasis for not booking young bands as tour support: “There’s levels to this game”

Liam Gallagher has addressed the fans who are unhappy with Oasis not booking younger bands for a support slot.After weeks of speculation about who’ll be supporting them on their reunion tour, they confirmed Richard Ashcroft as a special guest for their 2025 UK and Ireland reunion tour earlier this month.The former frontman of The Verve is set to open for the Britpop band on each date of the trek next summer, which includes seven nights at London’s Wembley Stadium and five gigs at Manchester’s Heaton Park.The news came after recent reports suggested that Ashcroft and Cast (who have not yet been announced) would join the Gallaghers on the road for Oasis Live ’25.In a statement about the forthcoming massive support slots, Ashcroft said: “As a fan from day one I was buzzing for many reasons when the news of Oasis’ return was announced.“I can say with no exaggeration that the songwriting talent of Noel and Liam’s pure spirit as a lead singer helped to inspire me to create some of my best work. It was the perfection of ‘Live Forever’ that forced me to try and write my own.”However, some fans felt it was a wasted opportunity to spotlight younger, more up-and-coming bands, particularly after many took to social media to speculate that Fontaines D.C.

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Watch Fontaines D.C. perform ‘Horseness Is The Whatness’ live for the first time in Brooklyn

Fontaines D.C. gave their song ‘Horseness Is The Whatness’ its live debut during their show in Brooklyn this week.The Dublin rockers took over the Brooklyn Paramount in New York for a sold-out two-night run on Tuesday and Wednesday (October 15 and 16) as part of their ongoing US ‘Romance’ tour.On the first night (October 15), Fontaines D.C.

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Watch Rachel Chinouriri’s epic cover of Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Starburster’ in Live Lounge

Rachel Chinouriri covered Fontaines D.C‘s ‘Starburster’ in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge earlier today (October 16). Check it out below.It was the former NME Cover star‘s first time performing at the Live Lounge, and to mark the occasion she delivered a high-octane take on the track from Fontaines D.C’s latest LP ‘Romance‘.The striking rendition included an eerie guitar solo and Chinouriri’s haunting vocals building to a powerful crescendo on the bridge.

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Annie Lennox calls for ceasefire on first anniversary of the Israel-Palestine conflict: “We humans are capable of indescribable atrocities”

Annie Lennox has called for a ceasefire amid the first anniversary of the Israel-Palestine conflict, writing of how humans are “capable of tremendous achievements and indescribable atrocities”.In a post shared to Instagram yesterday (October 7), the Eurythmics singer referenced the attack that happened a year ago, when over a thousand Israelis were killed by Hamas forces at a music festival.Following the attack, the Israeli cabinet formally declared war against Hamas, leading to the most significant escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in several decades and triggering unprecedented and seemingly unrelenting violence.According to a report by Reuters, Palestinian health authorities have said Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 41,500 people. The attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023 killed over 1,200 people.Now, Annie Lennox has taken to Instagram 12 months after Hamas descended on the Israel festival, and called for a ceasefire.A post shared by Annie Lennox (@officialannielennox)“This is a heavy day – one year after the events that were to create a ‘tipping point’ in this decades-long situation of discord and brutality.

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Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner lent Fontaines D.C. his guitar for ‘Romance’: “We used it for the heavier sounds”

Fontaines D.C. by Alex Turner provided the “heavier sounds” on ‘Romance’.In a recent video by Guitarist, O’Connell played some of Rory Gallagher’s guitars, and whilst playing his 1963 custom-coloured Epiphone Coronet, said he picked it up because the Arctic Monkeys frontman came to mind.“He had one of these, probably [from] a similar year,” he said.

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Watch Fontaines D.C.’s woozy cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Say Yes To Heaven’

Fontaines D.C. have performed a reimagined cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Say Yes To Heaven’ in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge – check out footage below.The Dublin band delivered their woozy rendition of the US singer-songwriter’s 2023 track while appearing in the Radio 1 studio on Wednesday (October 2) for Live Lounge Month.The cover comes just over a year since Del Rey officially dropped the song herself.

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Fontaines D.C. announce massive 2025 Manchester show at Wythenshawe Park

Fontaines D.C. have announced a huge show at Wythenshawe Park in Manchester for summer 2025, where they will be joined by Kneecap and English Teacher.The Irish band will headline the outdoor show on Friday August 15, 2025, with a total capacity of 26,000 fans. Tickets for the one-off event go on general sale at 9am on October 4 and you can get yours here.They will be joined on the massive line-up by Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap, who have recently been promoting their self-titled biopic, which has been longlisted for an Oscar, and been hailed by NME in a five-star review as “not only one of the standout films of 2024, but arguably one of the best music biopics of all time”.Manchester.We’re playing a big show in Wythenshawe Park next August.

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Fontaines D.C. cancel two more North American shows due to vocal injury

Fontaines D.C. have had to cancel two further shows due to frontman Grian Chatten’s vocal injury.The band had been due to kick off their North American tour yesterday (September 20) in Seattle, but pulled out of the opening show, with Chatten revealing he had “come down with some kind of flu” that was impacting his voice.Now, the Dublin group have confirmed that two further shows – in Portland’s Roseland Theater tonight (September 21) and in Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom tomorrow (September 22) – have also been called off for the same reason.Despite the rest and medication, I can now not even speak without pain. It breaks my heart to have to cancel the show tonight in Portland, and tomorrow in Vancouver, two shows I was really looking forward to.— Fontaines D.C.

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Elton John: Fontaines D.C. are “the best band out there at the moment”

Elton John has declared that Fontaines D.C. are “the best band out there at the moment”.The pop icon made the statement during the band’s appearance on his Rocket Hour show on Apple Music this week, where he conducted an interview with Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten.“For me, you’re the best band out there at the moment,” John said during his introduction of the group.“Having watched you at Glastonbury, having heard the new album, you’ve just grown every album,” hw told Chatten.

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Fontaines D.C. cancel Seattle show due to illness

Fontaines D.C. have cancelled a show in Seattle due to frontman Grian Chatten becoming ill.The band were due to commence their US tour yesterday (September 20), following the release of their latest album ‘Romance‘ last month.

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Fontaines D.C. on why they “couldn’t really give a shit” about the Oasis reunion

Fontaines D.C. have weighed in their views on the Oasis reunion, and said that they “couldn’t really give a shit” about the band reforming.The Britpop icons recently announced news of their long-awaited reformation, and took the world by storm by announcing 2025 live shows.Already, the ‘Oasis Live 25’ world tour has sold out all of its initially shared 14 stadium dates – set to take place between Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer.