Following headline shows at the Reading, Leeds and Electric Picnic festivals over the weekend, Fontaines D.C. today announce a huge Irish show at Slane Castle, County Meath on Saturday 26th June 2027, subject to licence.
The band will follow in the footsteps of the likes of U2, Oasis, Madonna, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones as headliners at the legendary outdoor venue, and will be only the third ever Irish act to headline (after U2 and Thin Lizzy).
The news follows the recent announcement of Fontaines D.C.’s fifth studio album Dopamine Chamber, which will be released on 16th October via XL Recordings.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am this Thursday 3rd September here
Artist pre-sale begins at 10am Tuesday 1st September. Registration here: https://laylo.com/fontainesdc/slane2026
MCD Pre-sale begins 10am on Wednesday 2nd September here
Tickets priced from €89.25 (including booking fee and €1 charity donation to Focus Ireland). Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50).
No service charge will apply to tickets purchased in-person from the 3Olympia Box Office, Dame Street Dublin 2.
€1 from every ticket (minus applicable taxes) sold will go towards helping children, families and individuals get back on their feet and have a home of their own. Focus Ireland believes everyone has a right to a place to call home.
Details of coach transport services will be announced shortly.
See below for the full list of current tour dates.
Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – will release their fifth album Dopamine Chamber on 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it’s the follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records and into their most seductive music yet.
Preceded by lead single “Marianne“, the album arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music” on you.
Fontaines D.C. have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero’s Death (2020), the UK and Irish No. 1 Skinty Fia (2022) and the anarchic, kaleidoscopic Romance (2024). Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet: It was made with Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions.
“There’s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,” says Chatten. For their fifth album, Fontaines D.C. have built the chamber. What happens to the listener inside it will be the experiment.
“Marianne” is out now. Dopamine Chamber is released on 16th October via XL Recordings and available on LP, deluxe LP, CD, cassette and digital.
FONTAINES D.C. LIVE 2026
Friday 18th September – Shaky Knees, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sunday 20th September – Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ, USA
Monday 21st September – Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Friday 25th September – Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sunday 27th September – Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA, USA
Wednesday 21st October – MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday 22nd October – Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
Saturday 24th October – Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona, Spain
Monday 26th October – Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Wednesday 28th October – Hangar Stage 1, Belgrade, Serbia
Friday 30th October – Sportovní hala Fortuna, Prague, Czech Republic
Saturday 31st October – Atlas Arena, Łódź, Poland
Monday 2nd November – Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin, Germany
Thursday 5th November – Hovet, Stockholm, Sweden
Friday 6th November – Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway
Sunday 8th November – Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 10th November – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thursday 12th November – AFAS Dome, Antwerp, Belgium
Friday 13th November – Accor Arena, Paris, France
Friday 20th November – M&S Bank Arena , Liverpool, UK
Saturday 21st November – AO Arena, Manchester, UK
Sunday 22nd November – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Tuesday 24th November – First Direct Arena, Leeds, UK
Wednesday 25th November – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, UK
Friday 27th November – The O2 Arena, London, UK
2027
Saturday 26th June – Slane Castle, County Meath, Ireland
WITH SUPPORT FROM HAYLEY WILLIAMS, DAMIEN DEMPSEY, MADRA SALACH
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