The hottest band around at the moment, Fontaines DC have added additional dates to their UK tour. The announcement comes as the band are currently touring the UK, in support of their debut album, ‘Dogrel’, which was released last Friday (April 12). The band’s tour dates can be seen, in-full below.
The band, who are currently at the end of their eight-date spring tour of the UK and are scheduled to play, the Garage, in London tonight (April 17), and have added even more dates to their UK for 2020. It has now been revealed that Fontaines DC will also perform in Newcastle and Nottingham, next January. Following tonight’s show at The Garage, the band will conclude their Spring-run of shows, at Haunt, in Brighton, tomorrow (April 18).
Speaking of the band’s live shows, Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten, said: “There is a truth there. It’s an invisible truth, between us and the crowd.” Meanwhile, speaking to NME, about the current music scene, frontman Chatten said: “The world is in disarray in a way that it hasn’t been before. It’s more confusing than it was before – there’s just a huge lack of trust in any form of media or narrative voice. No one really believes anything, and what we’re having to do is form some kind of truth for ourselves. I think that anger [in modern guitar music] is just confusion, in a way.”
The band are set to have one of the biggest ad busiest year’s with the release of their debut album, ‘Dogrel’, their April UK tour, which they will follow up with a tour of North America, supporting IDLES, on their tour. That’s all before hitting the road again, in November, for an extensive UK tour.
The announcement of the additional dates comes as Fontaines DC, made up of frontman Grian Chatten; Conor Deegan III; Carlos O’Connell; Conor Curley; and Tom Col, debut album, ‘Dogrel’, is currently sitting at number five in the UK Albums Chart. An official release describes the album, ‘Dogrel’ as, “a debut which is best enjoyed as a whole; it is very much in the grand tradition of the album as art form, just as this is a band very much in the classic band mold: great singles, an indefatigable work ethic and an utter aversion to standing still.”
Fontaines DC UK Tour Dates 2019/2020:
17/04/2019 – Garage – London
18/04 – Haunt – Brighton
November
19/09/2019 – O2 Ritz – Manchester
20/09 – O2 Academy – Liverpool
21/09 – SWG3 – Glasgow
22/09 – Stylus – Leeds
23/09 – Leadmill – Sheffield
25/09 – O2 Institute – Birmingham
26/09 – O2 Academy – Oxford
27/09 – O2 Forum Kentish Town- London
28/09 – Concorde 2 – Brighton
30/09 – SWX – Bristol
December
01/12 – The 1865 – Southampton
JANUARY 2020
10/01/2020 – O2 Academy – Newcastle, O2 Academy
11/01 – Rock City – Nottingham
North America Tour Dates May 2019 (Supporting IDLES):
05/05-2019 – Kings Barcade – Raleigh
06/05 – Strange Matter – Richmond
08/05 – The Hollow – Albany
10/05 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn
11/05 – Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington DC
12/05 – Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington DC
14/05 – Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland
16/05 – RecordBar – Kansas City
17/05 – The Curtain Club – Dallas
18/05 – Barracuda – Austin
20/05 – Valley Bar – Phoenix
21/05 – Belly Up – San Diego
22/05 – The Fonda – Los Angeles
25/05 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco
27/05 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland
28/05 – Neumo’s – Seattle
