{"id":12489,"date":"2020-06-29T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2020-06-29T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:27:04","slug":"fontaines-d-c-announce-uk-tour-dates-for-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12489","title":{"rendered":"FONTAINES D.C. ANNOUNCE UK TOUR DATES FOR MAY 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Today, Fontaines D.C. have announced new UK tour dates for May 2021. The new dates will also include the band\u2019s biggest headline UK show to-date at London\u2019s Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n

Dates are as follows:<\/p>\n

7th May \u2013 Manchester Academy
\n10th May \u2013 Leicester De Montfort Hall
\n11th May \u2013 Leeds O2 Academy
\n12th May \u2013 Newcastle O2 City Hall
\n14th May \u2013 Glasgow Barrowland
\n17th May \u2013 Cambridge Corn Exchange
\n18th May \u2013 Sheffield O2 Academy
\n20th May \u2013 Birmingham O2 Academy
\n21st May \u2013 Cardiff Great Hall
\n22nd May \u2013 Bristol O2 Academy
\n24th May \u2013 Bournemouth O2 Academy
\n25th May \u2013 Southampton O2 Guildhall
\n27th May \u2013 London Alexandra Palace<\/p>\n

Supports TBC<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on sale Friday 3rd July at 9AM BST – at\u00a0fontainesdc.com<\/a>,\u00a0metropolismusic.com<\/a>,\u00a0seetickets.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ticketmaster.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0– but fans can gain access to artist pre-sale on Wednesday 1st July 9AM BST\u00a0by pre-ordering the album from the band\u2019s official store or signing up to their mailing list at\u00a0https:\/\/www.fontainesdc.com<\/a>.
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\nNHS staff and Key Workers will also have the chance to secure free tickets to the shows, with 50 being made available at all regional events, and a further 200 for London\u2019s Alexandra Palace. Tickets will be distributed on a first come first served basis, and anyone wishing to apply must email fontaines@metropolismusic.com by 17:00pm BST on Tuesday 30th June, listing their profession and the show they want to attend. Tickets will be limited to 2 per customer. ID will be required.<\/p>\n

The news of the tour follows the announcement of the band\u2019s much anticipated second LP \u201cA Hero\u2019s Death\u201d, and comes on the heels of their performance on Later\u2026 with Jools Holland earlier this month \u2013 watch their remote performance\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018A Hero\u2019s Death\u2019 was produced in London by Dan Carey (Black Midi, Bat For Lashes). The band announced the album alongside the title track, which features a music video starring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire, Peaky Blinders). Watch\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The band have also recently shared the opening track from the album. With its lonely intensity, \u201cI Don\u2019t Belong\u201d stands in stark relief to the swagger that kicked off their debut album last year (“Big<\/a>“). The song is also accompanied by a music video directed remotely by FDC bassist Connor Deegan III. Watch\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dogrel\u2019 debuted Top 10 on the UK album charts, earning Fontaines D.C. a Mercury Prize nomination, #1 Album of the Year positions from BBC 6 Music and Rough Trade, a performance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and numerous sold out tours in the UK and abroad \u2013 including triumphantly selling out London Brixton Academy in just 1 week. The Guardian (who gave the album 5 stars) praised \u2018Dogrel\u2019 as being \u201cbrilliant, top to bottom,\u201d The FADER called Fontaines D.C. \u201cOne of the most exciting new bands around,\u201d and NME (who also gave \u2018Dogrel\u2019 5 stars) called them \u201cOne of guitar music\u2019s most essential new voices.\u201d Watch a clip from their instantly legendary Glastonbury set\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More info:<\/strong>
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Today, Fontaines D.C. have announced new UK tour dates for May 2021. The new dates will also include the band\u2019s biggest headline UK show to-date at London\u2019s Alexandra Palace. Dates are as follows: 7th May \u2013 Manchester Academy 10th May \u2013 Leicester De Montfort Hall 11th May \u2013 Leeds O2 Academy 12th May \u2013 Newcastle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5267,1682,306],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dogrel","tag-fontaines-d-c","tag-prescription-pr","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12492,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}