Fontaines DC announce biggest headline show in Belfast this summer
With special guests Kneecap 🙌
Irish post-punk heroes Fontaines D.C. have just announced their biggest show in Belfast this summer!
📍 Belfast Vital - Boucher Road Playing Fields
🗓️ Friday 29th August 2025
Belfast's very own Kneecap are special guests on support at the gig.
Within just two years of forming, they went from playing small Irish clubs to headlining major venues and earning a Grammy nomination for A Hero’s Death (Best Rock Album).
The live announcements followed the release of Fontaines D.C.’s deluxe edition of their acclaimed fourth album ROMANCE.
In addition to the recent new single “It’s Amazing To Be Young” and its stunning, Luna Carmoon-directed music video, the deluxe album also features the brand new, James Ford-produced song “Before You I Just Forget”.
Completing the trio is a live, stripped-back version of “Starburster” that sees the band melding their biggest song to date with David Lynch’s “In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)”, which originally featured on the soundtrack of Lynch’s 1977’s Eraserhead film.
Speaking on the new music, Conor Curley said “Before You I Just Forget is a song that started with a vision of this really blown out sound, something that heaved and shifted with new details becoming apparent every time you would listen. Like never being able to step in the same river twice, the song morphs and changes finishing with an incredible string part by Grian.”
How to get tickets:
🎟️ Sign up to the Fontaines D.C. mailing here before 8am Wednesday 23rd April for access to the artist pre-sale. Artist pre-sale opens 10am Wednesday 23rd April.
🎟️ Customers of the UK’s fastest 5G network, Three UK, can get their hands on pre-sale tickets for Belfast Vital through its rewards app, Three+. To access the pre-sale, fans need to be a Three UK customer (Pay Monthly or Pay As You Go) and have downloaded and registered on the Three+ app before pre-sale opens. Pre-sale tickets for Belfast Vital are on sale from 10am on Wednesday 23rd April for up to 48 hours
🎟️ MCD pre-sale will go on sale Thursday 24th April at 10am
🎟️ General tickets will go on sale Friday 25th April from ticketmaster.ie at 10am
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