Fontaines D.C. have announced new tour dates for Japan, Australia and New Zealand – check out the full list below.
Last night (October 22), the Dublin band took to social media to announce their new slate of tour dates, which will see them hit the Asia Pacific region between February 2025 and March 2025 for a total of nine shows: two in Japan, six in Australia and one in New Zealand.
The tour will kick off on February 21 in Osaka, before Grain Chatten and co. move on to Tokyo on February 23. The band will then begin their Australian run on February 27 in Perth, with stops in Brisbane, Wollongong, Sydney, Melbourne and Meredith in the first week of March. On March 12, Fontaines D.C. will end their tour at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand.
They will be supported by Wunderhorse for their stops in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
Tickets for their Australia and New Zealand shows go on sale at 9am local time on October 31, while their Japan show go on sale on November 16 at 10am local time. All tickets can be purchased via the official Fontaines D.C. website.
Fontaines D.C.’s 2025 Japan, Australia and New Zealand tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
21 – Gorilla Hall – Osaka, Japan
23 – Toyosu Pit – Tokyo, Japan
27 – Perth Fest – Perth, Australia *
MARCH
01 – Riverstage – Brisbane, Australia *
02 – Yours & Owls Fest – Wollongong, Australia
06 – Opera House Forecourt – Sydney, Australia *
08 – Palace Foreshore – Melbourne, Australia *
09 – Golden Plains Fest – Meredith, Australia *
12 – Spark Arena – Auckland, New Zealand *
* – with Wunderhorse
The tour will be in support of Fontaines D.C.’s latest album, ‘Romance’. In a five-star review of the album, NME shared: “Perhaps nowhere, however, has frontman Grian Chatten’s songwriting felt more arrestingly attuned to the thorny tangle of life than on fourth LP ‘Romance’, an album that charts the devastating duality of its title – primarily the way a love or desire so tender can morph into something near-debilitating.”
It continued: “Much of its power, therefore, comes from the way the discomfiting mood is offset by the lusciousness of the melodies. “Ah, it makes sense when you understand / The misery made me another marked man,” Chatten sings towards the end of closer ‘Favourite’, a celebration of the past and all its learnings. These final, perfectly-chosen words will only take on a life of their own and reverberate onwards.”
In other news, Rachel Chinouriri recently covered Fontaines D.C‘s ‘Starburster’ while performing at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. Last week (October 17), Fontaines D.C. gave their song ‘Horseness Is The Whatness’ its live debut during their show in Brooklyn.
