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Fontaines DC have had a monumental year. Their fourth album ‘Romance’ was declared one of the biggest (and, arguably, best) albums of 2024 and their set at last year’s Glastonbury festival led numerous critics to label them the finest band of their generation.
Made of of five Dubliners – Grian Chatten, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, Tom Coll and Carlos O'Connell – the post-punk group is continuing to take the music scene by storm. After their huge global success in 2024, Fontaines is now doing something of a victory lap, playing on festival stages across Europe. And this weekend, they’ll be playing their largest headline show yet, here in London.
With support from the likes of Kneecap and Amyl and the Sniffers, it promises to be a magnificently raucous occasion. Here’s all the important info you need ahead of Fontaines DC at Finsbury.
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When are Fontaines DC playing London’s Finsbury Park?
They’ll be on stage in Finsbury Park on Saturday, July 5.
What time do doors open?
Fans will be able to enter the festival from 1.30pm onwards.
What time will Fontaines DC come on stage?
The headlining band is due to take to the stage at 8.20pm.
Who’s supporting Fontaines DC?
There’s a whole roster of bands lineup to play before Fontaines’ set, including Aussie group Amyl and the Sniffers and fellow Irishmen, Kneecap. Here are all the timings.
- 1.55pm: Cardinals
- 2.45pm: Been Stellar
- 3.55pm: Blondshell
- 5.10pm: Kneecap
- 6.40pm: Amyl and the Sniffers
- 8.20pm: Fontaines DC
DJs between sets will be Rob Smith & Tony Bones (Workmans Dublin), Steve Lamacq, Robbie Brady (Garage Bar RIP) and So Young.
Setlist
Based on the other festival slots that Fontaines have played so far this summer, you can expect the band’s setlist on Saturday to go something like this:
- Here's the Thing
- Jackie Down the Line
- Boys in the Better Land
- A Lucid Dream
- Roman Holiday
- Big Shot
- Death Kink
- A Hero’s Death
- Before You I Just Forget
- It's Amazing to Be Young
- Bug
- Hurricance Laughter
- Nabokov
- Motorcycle Boy
- Favourite
- Romance
- Desire
- In the Modern World
- I Love You
- Starburster
Festival map
Take a look at the map below for an idea of how the festival site will be laid out on Saturday.
Can you still get tickets?
Nope, the event is fully sold out on all of the officially verified ticket selling sites.
How to get there
The closest stations to the park are Finsbury Park Underground station, which is on the Piccadilly line, and Manor House station, which is on the Elizabeth line. From Finsbury Park station, it’s a 330m walk to the site and from Manor House it’s around 1km.
You can also get their via a number of local bus routes, including 4, 19, 29, 106, 141, 153, 210, 236, 253, 254, 259, 341, W1 and W7.
What’s Finsbury Park's bag policy?
As with most music events, you won’t be able to bring in a bag that’s any bigger than A4 size (although those with accessibility passes are allowed a larger bag).
Banned items
Aside from the obvious – weapons, explosives, drugs and the like – there’s quite a lot of more surprising stuff that are banned from the festival site. If you attempt to bring them with you, you run the risk of having them taken away and binned at the gates. So, here’s the full rundown of things you absolute won’t be allowed to bring into Finsbury Park on Saturday.
- Aerosols
- Airhorns
- Alcohol
- Animals (except for assistance dogs)
- Balloons
- Barbeques and any kind of cooking apparatus
- Bicycles
- Blowtorches
- Cans
- Chairs of any sort (including stools, floor seating and shooting sticks)
- Drinks including bottled water
- Drones, Drugs
- Gas canisters
- Gazebos/parasols/large (golf) umbrellas
- Glass (including glass makeup or perfume bottles)
- Food hampers/cool bags/boxes
- Firewood
- Fireworks
- Flags on poles
- Flares
- Generators of any kind
- Illegal substances
- Inflatable furniture
- Items which may be regarded as weapons
- Legal highs (inc ‘legal highs’ – this includes Nitrous Oxide and associated equipment including balloons)
- Laser equipment/pens
- Liquids/gels over 100ml
- Megaphones
- New psychoactive substances (NPS)
- Petrol burners
- Pyrotechnics
- Recording or transmitting equipment
- Roller skates
- Scooters
- Sky or ‘Chinese’ lanterns
- Smoke bombs / canisters
- Sound systems (including personal speakers)
- Spray cans
- Tabards/high viz jackets
- Motorcycle helmets
- Personal drones
Weather forecast
While there is grey cloud predicted for most of the day on Saturday, the good news is that there won’t be any rain. At least, that’s what the Met Office says at the time of writing. Temperatures are forecast to reach a comfortable maximum of 24C.
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