FONTAINES D.C. Announce Headline Shows In Perth And Adelaide
Today, Fontaines D.C. announce arena shows in Perth and Adelaide in February 2027, marking their biggest Australian headline shows to date. Returning to Australia and New Zealand for the just-announced 2027 edition of Laneway Festival, Fontaines D.C. will continue their run of arena shows down under, following their biggest-ever tour across the UK and Europe, which kicks off in October.
Tickets go on general sale for the Perth and Adelaide headline shows at 11 am local time on Friday 9th October, from https://fontainesdc.com/pages/live. Artist pre-sale begins at 11 am local time on Wednesday 7th October. Handsome Tours and Spotify’s pre-sale begins at 11am local time on Thursday 8th October.
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 / Remote Control Records. 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 a dopamine 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 Ireland 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.
Pre-Order / Pre-Save Dopamine Chamber: https://fontainesdc.x-l.co/dopamine-chamber
Fontaines D.C. 2027 Australia Tour
Presented by Laneway Festival & Handsome Tours
Tue, 9 Feb 2027 – RAC Arena, Perth, WA (Headline Show) [tickets]
Fri, 12 Feb 2027 – Laneway Festival, Sydney, NSW
Sat, 13 Feb 2027 – Laneway Festival, Brisbane, QLD
Wed, 17 Feb 2027 – AEC Arena, Adelaide, SA (Headline Show) [tickets]
Fri, 19 Feb 2027 – Laneway Festival, Melbourne, VIC
Sun, 21 Feb 2027 – Laneway Festival, Auckland, NZ
