Fontaines D.C. announce 3Arena gig – their biggest hometown show to date

After offering up a hugely promising first taste of their upcoming album ROMANCE this week – in the form of 'Starburster' – Fontaines D.C. have announced their biggest hometown show to date, at Dublin's 3Arena on Friday, December 6.

They'll be joined by London band Sorry as special guests.

The gig is part of an upcoming tour of the UK & Ireland:

Tour.

Romance UK & Ireland tour 2024. Pre-order our new album by 3pm on 23rd April for first access to tickets. General sale begins 10am on Friday 26 April. See ya there. https://t.co/hnzoHaFfcj pic.twitter.com/PQuhH9lPC5

— Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesdublin) April 19, 2024

The Grammy-nominated band are set to release the James Ford-produced ROMANCE on August 23, via XL Recordings. It follows the chart-topping 2022 album Skinty Fia.

"We’ve always had this sense of idealism and romance," bassist Conor Deegan says of the new album title. "Each album gets further away from observing that through the lens of Ireland, as directly as (Mercury Prize-nominated debut) Dogrel. The second album (the GRAMMY-nominated A Hero’s Death) is about that detachment, and the third (Skinty Fia) is about Irishness dislocated in the diaspora. Now we look to where and what else there is to be romantic about.”

“We say things on this record we’ve wanted to say for a long time," vocalist Grian Chatten adds.

Tickets for Fontaines D.C. at the 3Arena are €40.20, and go on sale at 10am next Friday, April 26, via Singular Artists' website.

Watch the video for 'Starburster', directed by Aube Perrie, below: