Fontaines D.C.

BELFAST VITAL 2025

Fontaines D.C.
with very special guests KNEECAP

Boucher Road Playing Fields, Belfast
Friday 29th August 2025

*SUBJECT TO LICENCE*

Gates 5pm | 16+ Show

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 25th APRIL AT 10AM FROM TICKETMASTER.IE 

TICKET INFORMATION 
Ticketmaster: Book Online: www.ticketmaster.ie

Irish quintet Fontaines D.C. are pleased to announce their biggest headline Irish show to date at Belfast Vital, Boucher Road Playing Fields. Friday 29th August will see the band return to Belfast for the first time since playing two Ulster Hall shows in 2022. Fontaines D.C. will be joined by friends and very special guests Kneecap. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 26 April 2025 at 10am via www.ticketmaster.ie, with pre-sale tickets available from Wednesday 23rd April for the following:

ARTIST PRE-SALE:  Wednesday 23rd April at 10am - Sign up to the Fontaines D.C. mailing list here before 8am Wednesday 23rd April for access to the artist pre-sale.

THREE 48HR PRE-SALE: Wednesday 23rd April at 10am - Three UK customers can get their hands on pre-sale tickets 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: Thursday 24th April at 10am
PUBLIC ON SALE: Friday 25th April at 10am

The live announcements followed the release of Fontaines D.C.’s deluxe edition of their acclaimed fourth album ROMANCE. Now Available on all digital services via XL Recordings, ROMANCE (Deluxe Edition) adds three songs to the original 11-track album. 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.”

The release precedes a huge summer of live activity for Fontaines D.C. In addition to the 24 date North American tour, which culminates in three sold out shows at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on 16-18 May, the band will perform to 100,000 people across four sold out UK outdoor headline shows this summer. These include a 45,000-capacity event at London’s Finsbury Park on 5th July alongside events in Manchester, Cardiff and Newcastle. These shows will crown sold-out headline dates around the world, including Europe, Asia, Australia and North America alongside a run of high-profile festival appearances.

2024 was a defining year for Fontaines D.C., with ROMANCE lauded as one of the year’s very best albums, cementing their status as one of the most exciting bands in contemporary music. Topping multiple ‘album of the year’ lists around the world, the James Ford-produced album was quickly certified gold in the UK and saw the band winning a BRIT Award and nominated for two GRAMMYs among a host of accolades; a celebration of Fontaines D.C.’s ambitious world-building and bold musical evolution. It received a host of five-star plaudits from the likes of NME, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone UK while songwriting legend Elton John declared that they’re “the best band out there at the moment”. With its innovative sound and captivating artistry, ROMANCE cements Fontaines D.C.’s status as “the defining band of their generation” (NME).