BLONDSHELL, BEEN STELLAR, CARDINALS JOIN FONTAINES D.C. AT FINSBURY PARK

Mark your calendars and lace up your boots! On Saturday 5 July, Fontaines D.C. are levelling up. Their biggest headline show yet at Finsbury Park just got even juicier with the addition of Blondshell, Been Stellar, and Cardinals to the already-stacked lineup featuring Amyl and the Sniffers and Kneecap. Yes, it’s sold out. No, you’re not dreaming.

Let’s talk Blondshell. LA-via-NYC’s Sabrina Teitelbaum doesn’t just wear her heart on her sleeve - she’s handing it to you on a blood-smeared velvet cushion. Raw, razor-sharp, and unfiltered, her music is what happens when you take the grit of Patti Smith, the ache of Elliott Smith, and the quiet power of Tracy Chapman and bottle it into a singular voice that refuses to be quiet. Her sophomore record, If You Asked For A Picture, drops 2 May, so expect some fresh wounds and even fresher anthems when she hits the stage.

Then there’s Been Stellar - five New Yorkers breathing new life into the post-punk blueprint. Think Interpol’s shadowplay, Sonic Youth’s chaos, and the cold stare of early Radiohead. It’s angsty, it’s noisy, it’s beautiful - a collision of guitars and feelings that lands right in your chest.

Joining them are Cardinals, the Cork-based chameleons whose debut EP flips between shoegaze haze, trad-folk roots, and Wall of Sound grandeur like it’s no big deal. One minute they’re whispering poetry in your ear, the next they’re setting fire to your stereo. Irish gothic, but make it sexy.

This show is more than a victory lap - it’s a full-circle moment for Fontaines D.C. From playing to 30 people in a London pub back in 2017 to 45,000 fans just down the road in 2025, they’ve earned every second of this. The band have racked up BRITs, GRAMMY nods, and more critical love than most acts get in a lifetime, but at their core, they’re still five pals making cathartic, poetic noise - and putting on one of the best live shows you’ll ever see.

The July bill reads like a love letter to chaos, community, and culture: Amyl and the Sniffers bring their Aussie punk thunder, Kneecap will spit fire and flip the script, and the whole thing is curated by Fontaines themselves. Friends, collaborators, mischief-makers - the energy is going to be off the charts.