Fontaines D.C. announce outdoor gig at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens

Fontaines D.C. have announced an outdoor gig at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens on July 4th after their debut Dogrel was named as Rough Trade’s album of 2019.

The band will play some instores to celebrate the accolade, and are on a headline UK and Ireland tour from next week. We last reviewed the band live when they played New York with Idles earlier this year, and concluded that they’ll ‘be back in this greatest of cities headlining these venues before we know it’:

“The Lotts falls somewhere near first album Black Rebel Motorcycle Club if Been and Hayes had been under grey Dublin skies rather than cloudless Californian ones. Too Real is covered in a layer of grime, darting all over the place in an almost garage genre like a supercharged Irish version of Mike Skinner on Original Pirate Material.”

“Roy’s Tune brings the Dublin romance across the ocean, Grian at his calmest and almost crooning. Boys In The Better Land by contrast, already taken up a few notches on the album, is even faster live, as frantic as the frontman’s near-constant pacing across the stage and over in a heartbeat.”