Fontaines D.C confirm completed line-up for Finsbury Park date

Joining the Irish five-piece will be LA-based musician Blondshell, New York quintet Been Stellar and Cork band Cardinals as well as the previously announced Amyl and the Sniffers and Kneecap for a show that sold-out instantly following the band’s impressive 2024.

The band’s fourth studio album ‘Romance’ was released to critical acclaim last summer and reached No.2 on the UK charts and earned a nomination for the Best Rock Album at the Grammy Awards to add to their two BRIT Awards for Best International Group and prestigious Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize nominations.

This year, their performance at Finsbury Park in front of 45,000 fans will come after a sold-out tour across the UK and Ireland last autumn, which included two dates at the iconic Alexandra Palace and major festival appearances including Reading & Leeds and Glastonbury.

As for the support, Blondshell is the angriest, clearest, and most vulnerable side of LA-based singer/songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum. Growing up in the early 2000s, in a chaotic New York City household, Teitelbaum sought comfort in the music of legends like Patti Smith, Joy Division, and the Velvet Underground, before she found Imogen Heap and Elliott Smith, singing their songs at open mic nights around Manhattan. She’ll be taking to the stage at Finsbury Park following the release of her latest record ‘If You Asked For A Picture’, due for release on 2 May.

NYC-based five-piece Been Stellar tap into the disaffected sound and spirit of New York luminaries like Sonic Youth and Interpol, as well as the nihilistic, yearning cool of Iceage and Bends-era Radiohead, striking upon a sound that’s fearsome, buffeting and beautiful at the same time. Joining them is fellow Irish band Cardinals, whose acclaimed self-titled debut EP is an eclectic gothic amalgam of shoegaze, pop, Irish trad folk, and rock which incorporates 60s Wall of Sound and poetry-inflected punk.