Watch Fontaines D.C. perform brooding new album title track ‘Romance’ on European festival tour

Fontaines D.C. have performed the brooding title track of their upcoming album ‘Romance’ on their European festival tour – check out the footage below.

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The band have been playing a number of shows around the continent this month, with ‘Romance’ often serving as the opening track. The song, which has not yet been released, received its live premiere in Brooklyn in May, after it had featured in the band’s The Shining-inspired teaser video a month earlier.

Now, a performance of the track has been captured in fan footage from a show in Vilnius, Lithuania on June 16. Watch below:

Opening on a prolongued, crawling bassline, the track simmers with tension, while Chatten sings, “Into the darkness again / In with the pigs in the pen / God knows I love you / Screws in my head / I will be beside you / ‘Til you’re dead”.

For UK fans eager to catch the band, they announced a run of three intimate album launch shows to take place in August – in Kingston’s Pryzm on the 27th, Liverpool’s Content on the 28th and Newcastle’s Boiler Shop on the 29th. Find any remaining tickets here.

They are also due to embark on both a UK/IE headline tour and a joint European tour with Wunderhorse – see all dates below and get your tickets here.

Fontaines D.C.’s 2024 tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
1 – Lisbon, Portugal, Sagres Campo Pequeno
2 – Madrid, Spain, WiZink Center
4 – Milan, Italy, Alcatraz
5 – Zurich, Switzerland, X-TRA
7 – Munich, Germany, Zenith
8 – Berlin, Germany, Verti Music Hall
9 – Frederiksberg, Denmark, K.B. Hallen
11 – Hamburg, Germany, Sporthalle
12 – Cologne, Germany, E-Werk
13 – Paris, France, Zénith De Paris
15 – Bruxelles, Belgium, Forest National
16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, AFAS Live
20 – The Halls, Wolverhampton
22 – Alexandra Palace, London
23 – Alexandra Palace, London
24 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
26 – Pavilions, Plymouth
27 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
29 – Aviva Studios, Manchester
30 – Aviva Studios, Manchester

DECEMBER
01 – Aviva Studios, Manchester
03 – First Direct Arena, Leeds
04 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
06 – 3Arena, Dublin

They will also be headlining the Park Stage at Glastonbury on June 28 and will return to Reading & Leeds’ main stage on the week of the album’s release in August.

‘Romance’ is set for release on August 23. Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Depeche Mode), it will also be the band’s first album released through XL Recordings (Radiohead, King Krule, The xx).

So far, they have released the wistful single ‘Favourite’, as well as the pummelling ‘Starburster’, which NME gave five stars and described as “a pensive art-rock beast that fuses elements of electronica and hip-hop more akin to their fellow striking countrymen (and recent collaborators) KNEECAP as frontman Grian Chatten spits: “I’m gon hit your business if it’s momentary blissness *BREEEAAAATHE*”.

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