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

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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.

Tickets are on sale for the shows now – see the full list of dates here and find your tickets here.Before that, Grian Chatten and co.

will embark on their 2024 UK and Ireland headline tour, which is set to take place in November and December. That stint includes two nights at Alexandra Palace in the capital.In addition, the band have announced a massive headlining show at Cardiff Castle for late July 2025.

It joins two other already announced huge shows for next year, the first at London’s Finsbury Park, which is due to take place on Saturday July 5.