Watch Fontaines D.C. perform ‘Desire’ live for fist time at stellar Alexandra Palace show

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Fontaines D.C. played two massive London headline shows over the weekend – using the first to give ‘Romance‘ album favourite ‘Desire’ its live debut.

Check out footage, the setlist and more below.The Irish five-piece are currently in the midst of a sell-out UK and Ireland tour capping off a huge year in support of their acclaimed fourth album ‘Romance’.

On Friday (November 22), they played the first of two gig at the capital’s iconic Alexandra Palace.Frontman Grian Chatten typically kept banter with the audience to a minimum, aside from thanking the capacity crowd for coming out and for a quick statement of “Free Palestine” in response to a flag being waved.After an explosive first set that featured fan favourites including ‘Jackie Down The Line’, ‘Televised Mind’, ‘A Hero’s Death’ and ‘Boys In The Better Land’ alongside new album highlights ‘Death Kink’, ‘Bug’, ‘Sundowner’ and the sing-along highlight of ‘Favourite’, the band returned for an encore that kicked off with ‘Romance’ cut ‘In The Modern World’ before the live debut of ‘Desire’.After an almighty response for ‘I Love You’, the band then experienced some technical difficulties and were forced to leave the stage before returning with the promise of an extra song in the form of ‘Too Real’ before the almighty climax closer of ‘Startburster’.Speaking to NME earlier this year about the inspiration behind the sound of ‘Romance’, Chatten said: “We spoke about pigeons taking flight at dawn, the Shibuya scramble, the feeling of a million people passing by but not seeing each other in their own world, the race to work in the morning, things like that.“I don’t mean this in a bad way at all, but parts of the west coast of America feel like death to me.