Fontaines D.C. announce more UK tour dates
Tour starts: 1st May 2021
Label: Partisan Records
More info: Fontaines D.C’s website
Praise for A Hero’s Death
"Exceptional" - The Guardian Album of The Week ★★★★★
"A resounding victory” - Q ★★★★★
"A maudlin and manic triumph" - Pitchfork 8.1
“One of the best new bands of our time” - The Times ★★★★
“The most electric rock’n’roll band of the 2020s” – MOJO ★★★★
8/10 – Uncut
excoriating anthems about flirting with self-destruction – NME ★★★★
“Every bit as visceral as their debut” – Sunday Times Culture ★★★★
“a tensile urgency all their own” – The Observer ★★★★
“difficult second album syndrome? Not a chance.” – Music OMH ★★★★★
“Worth the hype all along.” - DIY 4.5/5
“a classic rock and roll album.” – Clash 9/10
“a powerful, brave and endlessly rewarding” - The Line of Best Fit 8.5/10
“Triumphant” – London Evening Standard ★★★★
“This may well be a future classic” – The i Paper ★★★★
“Compelling” – The Sun ★★★★
“A suitably imaginative advance” – Daily Mirror ★★★★
“among our most profound and important new bands” – Classic Rock 8/10
Fontaines D.C. have added a further four live dates to their quickly selling-out 2021 UK tour. Earlier this week the band played new album A Hero’s Death live in full for the first time online to a watching audience that topped 4000. Lockdown has not dampened appetite for live music and in the wake of selling out two nights at Glasgow’s Barrowlands, a show at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange is added. In the North West, Liverpool’s Mountford Hall will host the band after two nights at Manchester’s Academy sold out fast. Sheffield’s show at the O2 Academy has also just topped-out. Nottingham Rock City and Bath Forum complete May 2021’s new additions.
This week of course also sees the band’s universally lauded new album A Hero’s Death go toe-to-toe with global pop icon Taylor Swift’s Folklore in a battle for the #1 album spot this Friday. Anyone buying the album before midnight tonight via the band’s webstore will get access to the ticket pre-sale for the new dates, which begins at 9am on Wednesday 12th August. Anyone who has already purchased the album via the band’s webstore will automatically get access. Alternatively, those who sign up to the band’s mailing list will also get access to the pre-sale. Tickets go on general sale on the 14th August.
Buy / stream A Hero’s Death via the band’s webstore HERE
Buy / stream A Hero’s Death on all platforms HERE
UK 2021 headline tour dates are as follows
NEW - 1st May – Edinburgh Corn Exchange
NEW - 3rd May – Nottingham Rock City
NEW - 4th May – Bath Forum
NEW - 6th May – Liverpool Mountford Hall
7th May – Manchester Academy – SOLD OUT
8th May – Manchester Academy – SOLD OUT
10th May – Leicester De Montfort Hall
11th May – Leeds O2 Academy – SOLD OUT
12th May – Newcastle O2 City Hall
14th May – Glasgow Barrowland – SOLD OUT
15th May – Glasgow Barrowland – SOLD OUT
17th May – Cambridge Corn Exchange
18th May – Sheffield O2 Academy – SOLD OUT
20th May – Birmingham O2 Academy
21st May – Cardiff Great Hall – SOLD OUT
22nd May – Bristol O2 Academy – SOLD OUT
24th May – Bournemouth O2 Academy
25th May – Southampton O2 Guildhall
27th May – London Alexandra Palace
Supports TBC
