Fontaines D.C. had a big 2024, releasing one of our favorite albums of the year, Romance, and this year is set to be huge for them too, with tour dates lined up through the summer. As those begin, they’ve shared a new single, “It’s Amazing To Be Young,” which carries over the ’90s alt-rock feel of Romance in widescreen, cinematic form.
“‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’ is a song that was written in the presence of a newborn child — Carlos’ child,” bassist Conor Deegan III says. “It sounded more like a lullaby or a music box then, but with the same lyric- ‘it’s amazing to be young.’ The feeling of hope a child can give is profound and moving, especially for young men like us. That sense of wanting to create a world for them to grow up in happily. It’s a feeling that fights against the cynicism that can often overtake us in the modern world. So we wanted to declare which side we were on — it really is amazing to be young. We are still free, and want to make that feeling spread. We want to protect it for the others around us, and maybe in doing that, can also help protect it for ourselves.”
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The video completes the trilogy that began in “Here’s The Thing” and continued in “The Modern World,” all three of which were directed by Luna Carmoon. “I love this new track — it’s one of my favorites Fontaines have done, and I love that I got to complete the trilogy of videos for it,” she says. “It was all natural and kind of a surprise that the three videos came together. I’ve got to work with such a beautiful team and was really given the space and breath to create the worlds that automatically came to me when hearing the music. I feel like we’re living in this weird time where romantic love is being pushed to the side, and sex and love is unvirtuous and no longer what people want to see. I don’t believe that at all. I love that these two people have fallen in love with themselves, and I wanted to see them fall in love with each other. I planted the seed after I did the carjitsu video (‘In The Modern World’) and then I had a couple of days to write the video for ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young.’ There are a lot of odes to Santa Sangre in it. It also reminds me of my first short film Shagbands.”
Watch the “It’s Amazing To Be Young” video, and see all of Fontaines’ 2025 tour dates, below.
Fontaines D.C. 2025 tour dates
February 21 – Osaka, Japan – Gorilla Hall Osaka
February 23 – Tokyo, Japan – Toyosu PIT
February 27 – Red Hill, Australia – Perth Fest
March 1 – Brisbane, Australia – Riverstage Brisbane
March 2 – Wollongong, Australia – Yours & Owls Festival
March 6 – Sydney, Australia – Opera House Forecourt
March 8 – Melbourne, Australia – Palace Foreshore
March 9 – Meredith, Australia – Golden Plains Festival
March 10 – Melbourne, Australia – Palace Foreshore
March 12 – Auckland, New Zealand – Spark Arena
March 18 – Ciudad De México, Mexico – Pabellón Oeste
March 21 – Santiago, Chile – Lollapalooza Chile
March 23 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Lollapalooza Argentina
March 24 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Niceto Club
March 26 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Audio Club
March 28 – São Paulo, Brazil – Lollapalooza Brazil
March 30 – Bogotá, Colombia – Festival Estéreo Picnic
April 17 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
April 18 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
April 19 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
April 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
April 22 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
April 24 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum
April 25 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)
April 26 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
April 28 – New Orleans, LA – Civic Theatre
April 29 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
April 30 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
May 2 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
May 3 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
May 4 – Columbus, OH – Kemba Live!
May 6 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
May 7 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
May 8 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroon
May 10 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
May 11 – Norfolk, VA – The NorVa
May 13 – Albany, NY – Empire Live
May 14 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
May 16 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
May 17 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
May 18 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
June 7 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
June 10 – Arles, France – Theatre Antique
June 12 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound
June 14 – Hradec Králové, Czechia – Rock For People
June 17 – Bologna, Italy – Sequoie Music Park
June 18 – Rome, Italy – Rock in Roma
June 19 – Milan, Italy – Unaltrofestival
June 21 – Budapest, Hungary – Barba Negra
June 23 – Zagreb, Croatia – INmusic Festival
June 25 – Belgrade, Serbia – Luka Beograd
June 27 – Athens, Greece – Release Festival
June 29 – Istanbul, Turkey – KüçükÇiftlik Park
July 2 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
July 3 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
July 5 – London, UK – Finsbury Park
July 6 – Herouville Saint-Clair, France – Beauregard Festival
July 8 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Neumënster Abbey
July 9 – Aix-les-Bains, France – Festival Musilac
July 11 – Trencin, Slovakia – Pohoda Festival
July 12 – Glasgow, UK – TRNSMT Festival
July 13 – Newcastle, UK – Exhibition Park
July 30 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Castle
August 1 – Waterford, Ireland – All Together Now Festival
August 3 – Katowice, Poland – OFF Festival
August 4 – Leipzig, Germany – Parkbühne im Clara Zetkin Park
August 5 – Berlin, Germany – Zitadelle Spandau
August 7 – Gothenburg, Sweden, Way Out West
August 8 – Oslo, Norway, Oya
August 8-10 – Helsinki, Finland – Flow Festival
August 15 – Manchester, UK – Wythenshawe Park
August 15-17 – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
August 19 – Bonn, Germany – Kunst!Rasen
August 20 – Stuttgart, Germany – BÜRGER Freilichtbühne Killesberg
August 21 – Graz, Austria – Freiluftarena B
August 23 – Chateau Gontier, France – V and B Fest
August 24 – Paris, France – Rock en Seine