Fontaines D.C. have announced a huge show at Wythenshawe Park in Manchester for summer 2025, where they will be joined by Kneecap and English Teacher.
The Irish band will headline the outdoor show on Friday August 15, 2025, with a total capacity of 26,000 fans. Tickets for the one-off event go on general sale at 9am on October 4 and you can get yours here.
They will be joined on the massive line-up by Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap, who have recently been promoting their self-titled biopic, which has been longlisted for an Oscar, and been hailed by NME in a five-star review as “not only one of the standout films of 2024, but arguably one of the best music biopics of all time”.
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We’re playing a big show in Wythenshawe Park next August. @KNEECAPCEOL and @Englishteac_her are joining us. Tickets go on general sale next Friday, October 4 at 9am. Sign up to our mailing list for pre-sale access.https://t.co/BZASTxdrSy pic.twitter.com/8owswg5tCI
— Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesdublin) September 27, 2024
Also on the bill are Leeds indie outfit English Teacher, whose 2024 debut album ‘This Could Be Texas’ recently won the Mercury Prize. That album recently re-entered the UK Top 40 after its victory, and the band will be playing their own run of headline UK shows in November.
Fontaines are currently on an extensive North American tour, which will run up until October 20 in Philadelphia. New York indie rockers and NME Cover alumni Been Stellar are serving as opening act at all dates. You can visit here to purchase any remaining tickets.
Later in the year, Chatten and co. will embark on their 2024 UK and Ireland headline tour, which is set to take place in November and December. That stint includes two nights at Alexandra Palace in the capital.
The group also recently unveiled news of a huge outdoor show at London’s Finsbury Park, due to take place on Saturday July 5, 2025. It will mark the Irish band’s biggest headline performance to date, with support coming from Amyl And The Sniffers as well as Kneecap again. Find remaining tickets to their UK shows here.
Fontaines’ fourth album ‘Romance’ was released last month, their first with new label XL Recordings. In a glowing five-star review of the James Ford-produced record, NME shared: “‘Romance’ offers moments of wonder and gravity while also feeling occasionally foreboding.”
For the direction of the album, the band told NME they wanted to implement a distinct move away from the rockier sound of their debut album, ‘Dogrel’.
“To be creatively understood by too many people feels like flies settling all over your clothes and all over your face. Every now and again you have to fucking shake them off, just to see who you are again. That’s what we wanted to do,” he said.
The band have recently been hailed by Elton John as “the best band out there at the moment”, while they have declared that they “couldn’t really give a shit” about the Oasis reunion.
