Having sold out their entire UK arena tour this morning, Fontaines D.C. today announce their biggest ever shows. The five-date run of outdoor headline shows will take in Blackweir Fields, Cardiff (29th June), St James’ Park, Newcastle (1st July), Heaton Park, Manchester (3rd July), Glasgow Green (6th July) and London Stadium (9th July). Support on all dates will come from Little Simz and Viagra Boys. 

Fontaines D.C. - Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll - will release their fifth album Dopamine Chamber on 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it's the follow-up to 2024's UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records and into their most seductive music yet. Preceded by lead single "Marianne", the album arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. “The album itself is adopamine chamber,” says Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”

Fontaines D.C. have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero’s Death (2020), the UK and Irish No. 1 Skinty Fia (2022) and the anarchic, kaleidoscopic Romance (2024). Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet. It was made with Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions. “There’s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,” says Chatten. For their fifth album, Fontaines D.C. have built the chamber. What happens to the listener inside it will be the experiment.