Fontaines D.C. have announced a huge headline show at Slane Castle for 2027, featuring special guest Hayley Williams.
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The Dublin band will perform at the historic County Meath venue on June 26, 2027, with Damien Dempsey and Madra Salach also joining the stacked bill.
The announcement follows Fontaines’ headline performances at Reading & Leeds and Electric Picnic over the weekend. At the latter show in County Laois last night (August 30), they teased the Slane show at the end of their set, when the phrase “Slane 2027” appeared on the stage screens.
The concert will make Fontaines D.C. only the third Irish act to headline Slane Castle, following Thin Lizzy in 1981 and U2 in 2001. The amphitheatre has a concert capacity of 80,000 and has hosted some of the world’s biggest artists over the past 45 years.
Other previous Slane headliners include The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Guns N’ Roses, Oasis, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Eminem and Harry Styles.
Pre-sale tickets will be available from 10am BST tomorrow (September 1), with fans required to register by 9pm BST today. The general sale will begin at 10am BST on Thursday (September 3) and you will be able to find yours here.
The show is notably on the Saturday evening of next year’s Glastonbury weekend. No names have been confirmed for the 2027 edition of the Worthy Farm festival at the time of writing.
The Slane show will follow the release of Fontaines’ fifth studio album, ‘Dopamine Chamber’, which is due to arrive on October 16 via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, the record will follow the band’s UK platinum-certified 2024 album ‘Romance’.
“The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” frontman Grian Chatten has explained. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”
‘Dopamine Chamber’ has been previewed by the lead single ‘Marianne’ and further new songs including ‘Six Shot Morning’ and ‘Happy, For You’.
Fontaines gave ‘Happy, For You’ its live debut at Leeds Festival on Saturday (August 29), after technical and logistical problems forced them to cut the track from their Reading headline show the previous evening.
Their Electric Picnic appearance was their first headline performance at the festival and their first Irish show since the death of longtime manager Trevor Dietz in June. The band previously described Dietz as their “sixth member”.
Fontaines D.C.’s current tour dates are:
SEPTEMBER 2026
18 – Atlanta, GA, Shaky Knees
20 – Asbury Park, NJ, Sea.Hear.Now
21 – Brooklyn, NY, Kings Theatre
25 – Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Forever Cemetery
27 – Dana Point, CA, Ohana Festival
OCTOBER 2026
21 – Lisbon, MEO Arena
22 – Madrid, Movistar Arena
24 – Barcelona, Sant Jordi Club
26 – Bologna, Unipol Arena
28 – Belgrade, Hangar Stage 1
30 – Prague, Sportovní Hala Fortuna
31 – Łódź, Atlas Arena
NOVEMBER 2026
2 – Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle
5 – Stockholm, Hovet
6 – Oslo, Oslo Spektrum
8 – Copenhagen, Royal Arena
10 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome
12 – Antwerp, AFAS Dome
13 – Paris, Accor Arena
20 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
21 – Manchester, AO Arena
22 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
24 – Leeds, First Direct Arena
25 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
27 – London, The O2
JUNE 2027
26 – County Meath, Slane Castle
NME awarded Fontaines D.C.’s Reading headline performance four-and-a-half stars, writing: “Sorry for the short set,” ends Chatten before the pure anxiety explosion of the full stop of ‘Starburster’. We hear that three songs – and reportedly another never-played-before new one – were cut from the setlist due to the delay, and we envy the people at the sister site in Leeds who we assume are going to get the full Fontaines R+L headline experience as it was intended. Either way, tonight was a deserved coronation from the band of our time, even if we didn’t get them in full.”
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