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. Tickets go on general sale at 10am next Friday (November 1).

We will be playing Cardiff Castle on Wednesday 30th July with @kaetempest and High Vis. Sign up to our mailing list for first access to tickets. General onsale begins Fri 1st Nov 10am. pic.twitter.com/DvvDT7RKQw

— Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesdublin) October 25, 2024

Announced today (October 25), news of the new Cardiff slot comes as the Irish band have already announced two other massive shows for next year. The first of those is at London’s Finsbury Park – due to take place on Saturday July 5. It will mark their biggest headline performance to date, with support coming from Amyl And The Sniffers and Kneecap again.

Shortly after that, they’ll head to Wythenshawe Park in Manchester on August 15, where they will be joined by English Teacher and Kneecap once again. The outdoor venue has a total capacity of 26,000 fans, and tickets went on sale earlier this month.

Visit here for tickets to all of Fontaines D.C.’s upcoming UK and Ireland shows, and find a list of dates below.

Fontaines D.C. upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates are:

NOVEMBER 2024
20 – Wolverhampton – The Halls
22 – London – Alexandra Palace
24 – Cardiff – Utilita Arena
26 – Plymouth – Pavilions
27 – Nottingham – Motorpoint Arena
29 – Manchester – Aviva Studios

DECEMBER 2024
3 – Leeds – First Direct Arena
4 – Glasgow – OVO Hydro
6 – Dublin – 3Arena

JULY 2025
5 – London – Finsbury Park
30 – Cardiff – Cardiff Castle [NEW]

AUGUST  2025
15 – Manchester – Wythenshawe Park 

The band have just wrapped up their extensive North American tour, which closed with a show in Philadelphia on October 20. New York indie rockers and NME Cover alumni Been Stellar served as the opening act at all dates.

Later in the year, Chatten and Co. will embark on their 2024 UK and Ireland headline tour, which listed above is set to take place in November and December. That stint includes two nights at Alexandra Palace in the capital.

Earlier this summer, ‘Romance’ arrived and marked their fourth album and first with new label XL Recordings. In a glowing five-star review of the James Ford-produced record, NME shared: “‘Romance’ offers moments of wonder and gravity while also feeling occasionally foreboding.”

For the direction of the album, the band told NME they wanted to implement a distinct move away from the rockier sound of their debut album, ‘Dogrel’.

“To be creatively understood by too many people feels like flies settling all over your clothes and all over your face. Every now and again you have to fucking shake them off, just to see who you are again. That’s what we wanted to do,” he said.

The band have recently been hailed by Elton John as “the best band out there at the moment”, and earlier this week announced new tour dates for Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

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