{"id":610183,"date":"2026-08-31T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:10:18","slug":"fontaines-dc-to-play-slane-castle-in-june-2027-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610183\/","title":{"rendered":"Fontaines DC to play Slane Castle in June 2027 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/damien-dempsey\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/damien-dempsey\/\">Damien Dempsey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hayley-williams\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hayley-williams\/\">Hayley Williams<\/a> and Madra Salach will be among the special guests when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fontaines-dc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fontaines-dc\/\">Fontaines DC<\/a> headline at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/slane-castle\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/slane-castle\/\">Slane Castle<\/a> on Saturday, June 26th, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Closing out this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/electric-picnic\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/electric-picnic\/\">Electric Picnic<\/a> \u2013 where they headlined for the first time \u2013 the band teased the gig at the end of their set, with the words \u201cSlane Castle\u201d appearing on the big screen along with a QR code for fans to register for details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/laylo.com\/fontainesdc\/slane2026\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/laylo.com\/fontainesdc\/slane2026\">Ticket pre-sale<\/a> starts 10am on Tuesday, September 1st. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/fontaines-d-c-tickets\/artist\/5281142\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/fontaines-d-c-tickets\/artist\/5281142\">General ticket sale<\/a> begins at 10am on Thursday, September 3rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The news follows the announcement of the band\u2019s fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, which will be released on October 16th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The band will be the third Irish act to headline at the Co Meath venue, after Thin Lizzy in 1981 and U2 in 2001. Previous headliners include The Rolling Stones, Oasis, David Bowie, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tickets are priced from \u20ac89.25. Bookings are subject to 12.5 per cent service charge per ticket (maximum \u20ac10.50).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Details of coach transport services will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damien Dempsey, Hayley Williams and Madra Salach will be among the special guests when Fontaines DC headline at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[187199,12421,3408,47035,42,43,13081,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-610183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-damien-dempsey","tag-electric-picnic","tag-fontaines-dc","tag-hayley-williams","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-slane-castle","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}