Post-punk Dubliners Fontaines D.C., whose Skinty Fia made being Irish in London a subject rather than a detail, bring Dopamine Chamber to The O2 arena.
Fontaines D.C., the Irish band whose 2024 album Romance moved them into arenas, play The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Friday 27 November 2026, touring Dopamine Chamber. Chalk open the show.
The D.C. stands for Dublin City, where the band formed at a music college in 2014. Grian Chatten sings, Carlos O’Connell and Conor Curley play guitars, Conor Deegan III plays bass and Tom Coll plays drums. Chatten and O’Connell published poetry pamphlets before the band had a record.
Dogrel arrived in 2019, a record about their city at the moment it was becoming unaffordable to the people in it. Each album since has moved further from post-punk than the last.
The accent and the subject have stayed as the rooms have grown, and the politics have got louder. Skinty Fia, in 2022, was about being Irish in London.
This date brings that record’s subject to the capital, in an arena that holds 20,000.