FONTAINES D.C. ANNOUNCE SLANE CASTLE HEADLINE SHOW
SATURDAY 26TH JUNE 2027 |SLANE CASTLE, COUNTY MEATH
WITH SUPPORT FROM HAYLEY WILLIAMS, DAMIEN DEMPSEY, MADRA SALACH
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
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.
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.