Fontaines D.C. cancel two extra North American exhibits resulting from vocal harm

Fontaines D.C. have needed to cancel two additional exhibits resulting from frontman Grian Chatten’s vocal harm.

The band had been resulting from kick off their North American tour yesterday (September 20) in Seattle, however pulled out of the opening present, with Chatten revealing he had “come down with some form of flu” that was impacting his voice.

Now, the Dublin group have confirmed that two additional exhibits – in Portland’s Roseland Theater tonight (September 21) and in Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom tomorrow (September 22) – have additionally been referred to as off for a similar purpose.

Regardless of the remainder and medicine, I can not even communicate with out ache. It breaks my coronary heart to should cancel the present tonight in Portland, and tomorrow in Vancouver, two exhibits I used to be actually wanting ahead to.

— Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesdublin) September 21, 2024

“Regardless of relaxation and medicine, I can not even communicate with out ache,” Chatten wrote on X. “It breaks my coronary heart to should cancel the present tonight in Portland, and tomorrow in Vancouver, two exhibits I used to be actually wanting ahead to.”

However there's simply no means of creating them work. Please know that I'm very grateful to those that purchased tickets and really sorry that I can’t play for you. Grian.

— Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesdublin) September 21, 2024

“However there's simply no means of creating them work,” he continued. “Please know that I'm very grateful to those that purchased tickets and really sorry that I can’t play for you. Grian.”

No additional info has been shared concerning the the rest of the tour, which is because of run up till October 20 in Philadelphia. New York indie rockers and NME Cowl alumni Been Stellar are serving as opening act in any respect dates. You possibly can visit here to purchase any remaining tickets.

Fontaines DC 2024 North American ‘Romance’ tour dates are: 

SEPTEMBER
24 — San Francisco, CA, The Warfield
26 — Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Palladium
27 — San Diego, CA, SOMA
28 — Pomona, CA, Fox Theater
30 — Phoenix, AZ, The Van Buren

OCTOBER
2 — Englewood, CO, Gothic Theatre
4 — Lawrence, KS, The Granada
5 — Omaha, NE, Slowdown
6 — Madison, WI, The Sylvee
8 — Minneapolis, MN, The Fillmore
9 — Chicago, IL, The Salt Shed
11 — Toronto, ON, Queen Elizabeth Theatre
12 — Montreal, QC, MTELUS
13 — Boston, MA, Roadrunner
15 — Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Paramount
18 — Washington, DC, 9:30 Membership
20 — Philadelphia, PA, The Fillmore

Fontaines’ fourth album ‘Romance’ was launched final month, their first with new label XL Recordings. In a glowing five-star assessment of the James Ford-produced report, NME shared: “‘Romance’ provides moments of marvel and gravity whereas additionally feeling sometimes foreboding.”

For the route of the album, the band advised NME they needed to implement a definite transfer away from the rockier sound of their debut album, ‘Dogrel’.

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“To be creatively understood by too many individuals appears like flies settling throughout your garments and throughout your face. Each on occasion you must fucking shake them off, simply to see who you might be once more. That’s what we needed to do,” he mentioned.

“We spoke lots about visible references, movies and stuff like that. I’m not even messing, however we used to talk about: ‘What sort of climate is it on this music?’ We might meet on a plain that didn’t have something to do with music, preparations or devices. It’s extra about abstractly attending to the proper place. I feel it’s extra attention-grabbing to work in that why since you’re at much less hazard of sounding contrived or unoriginal.”

Later this 12 months, Chatten and co. will embark on their 2024 UK and Eire headline tour, which is ready to happen in November and December. That stint contains two nights at Alexandra Palace within the capital.

The group additionally just lately unveiled information of an enormous outside present at London’s Finsbury Park, resulting from happen on Saturday July 5, 2025. It'll mark the Irish band’s largest headline efficiency so far, with assist coming from Amyl And The Sniffers and Kneecap. Discover remaining tickets to their UK exhibits here.

The band have just lately been hailed by Elton John as “the most effective band on the market in the mean time”, whereas they've declared that they “couldn’t actually give a shit” concerning the Oasis reunion.