FONTAINES D.C. ANNOUNCE SUMMER 2027 UK HEADLINE SHOW @ HEATON PARK
Having sold out their entire UK arena tour this morning, Fontaines D.C. today announce their biggest ever shows. The five-date run of outdoor headline shows will take in Blackweir Fields, Cardiff (29th June), St James’ Park, Newcastle (1st July), Heaton Park, Manchester (3rd July), Glasgow Green (6th July) and London Stadium (9th July). Support on all dates will come from Little Simz and Viagra Boys.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST on Thursday 10th September from
FONTAINES DC SITE. Artist pre-sale begins at 10am on Tuesday 8th September with pre-sale sign-up open now via LAYLO. Fans who have already pre-ordered Fontaines D.C.’s forthcoming album Dopamine Chamber will have automatic access to the pre-sale.
On Wednesday 2nd September the band also added a second night at Slane Castle, Ireland on 27th June. This follows the previously announced 26th June show that will see the band become only the third ever Irish act to headline the legendary venue (after U2 and Thin Lizzy). Tickets for both shows are available now.
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. Pre-order here.
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Slowdive
Slowdive (stylized in lowercase) is an English rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989. The band consists of Neil Halstead (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Rachel Goswell (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Christian Savill (guitars), Nick Chaplin (bass guitar), and Simon Scott (drums, guitars, electronics), all of whom played on the band’s early records. Halstead is the band’s primary songwriter.
After releasing several EPs, the band released debut album Just for a Day (1991) and follow up Souvlaki (1993), making the band one of the leading figures of the UK shoegaze scene of the early 1990s. The group broke up soon after the release of their third studio album, Pygmalion, in 1995, having seen Scott, Savill and Chaplin depart the band prior. The remaining members continued under a more folk and country-influenced direction as Mojave 3.
Slowdive reunited in 2014 to play the Primavera Sound festival and released a self-titled studio album in 2017, their first in 22 years. The band’s fifth studio album, Everything Is Alive, was released in 2023 and became Slowdive’s first top ten album in any country, doing so in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.