Tickets sell out for Fontaines D.C. major Belfast gig with Kneecap as special guests
Tickets for a major Fontaines D.C. gig in Belfast, where rap trio Kneecap will join them as special guests, have sold out just hours after going on sale.
The Dublin band confirmed on their Instagram account that tickets for the show had quickly sold out on Friday morning.
The concert will take place on August 29th at the Boucher Road Playing Fields as part of the 2025 edition of Belfast Vital.
The gig will come at the end of a busy summer of activity for Fontaines D.C.
In addition to their 24-date North American tour, which culminates in three sold-out shows at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on May 16th-18th, the band will perform to 100,000 people across four UK outdoor headline shows.
These include a 45,000-capacity event at London’s Finsbury Park on July 5th alongside events in Manchester, Cardiff and Newcastle.
Kneecap are also confirmed to join as special guests at the London and Manchester shows.
It comes after a week of controversy for the Irish-language rappers, who ended their set at the second weekend of the Coachella music festival in California with three messages on a screen that accused Israel of genocide and war crimes against Palestinians.
The statements read: “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people”, “It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes” and “F*** Israel. Free Palestine.”
Former music manager Sharon Osbourne criticised the statements and called for Kneecap's US work visas to be revoked.
The group later posted to X and said they had received “hundreds of violent Zionist threats” due to the statements.
In an interview on RTÉ radio, Kneecap’s manager Daniel Lambert confirmed the band had received death treats, and that the nature of the threats would be “too severe” to outline on air.
