Fontaines D.C. marked the eve of their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, with a benefit night at the Roundhouse whose net proceeds go to the suicide-prevention charity CALM.
Fontaines D.C., twice BRIT Award winners for International Group, played the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm on Thursday 15 October 2026, the eve of their fifth album. Net proceeds went to CALM, the suicide-prevention charity.
The band met at a music college in Dublin in 2014 and bonded over poetry. They published two small collections of poems before releasing any music. Dogrel, in 2019, was a record about their city sung in an unsoftened Dublin accent, and it reached the Mercury Prize shortlist.
Skinty Fia gave them a first UK number one in 2022. Romance, in 2024, doubled Skinty Fia’s first-week sales and brought two Grammy nominations. In the summer of 2026 they headlined Reading.
Dopamine Chamber came out on 16 October, the morning after the show, preceded by the singles “Marianne” and “Tongue”.
The Roundhouse was built in 1847 as a turntable shed for the London and Birmingham Railway. Its Main Space holds about 3,300 standing, a fraction of the arena the band play in Greenwich in November. CALM has worked to prevent suicide in the UK since its helpline opened in 1997, and the helpline answers from 17:00 to 00:00.