Fontaines D.C. have performed ‘Before You I Just Forget’, taken from the deluxe edition of ‘Romance’, live for the first time in New York City.
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The band have just finished their North American tour, which included three dates at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. In the middle of the closing show yesterday (May 18), they performed ‘Before You I Just Forget’ for the first time.
The track is taken from the deluxe edition of ‘Romance’, and provided a change of pace during the show and allowed fans to slow down and sway to the music.
Watch some fan-captured footage below.
The band will be going on a summer 2025 tour, making stops at major UK, Ireland and European festivals including Primavera Sound and Rock Werchter. They will also be making stops around in the UK in cities including London, Newcastle, Cardiff and Manchester. You can find any remaining gig tickets here.
The band dropped the original version of their acclaimed fourth studio record, ‘Romance’, last summer. It peaked at Number Two in the UK and NME named the LP the second-best album of 2024 behind Charli XCX‘s ‘BRAT’.
The deluxe edition arrived last month (April 16), and it closes with a previously unreleased, stripped-back live version of ‘Starburster’ that incorporates David Lynch’s ‘In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)’.
Speaking on the new music, the band’s Conor Culrey said: “‘Before You I Just Forget’ is a song that started with a vision of this really blown out sound, something that heaved and shifted with new details becoming apparent every time you would listen.
“Like never being able to step in the same river twice, the song morphs and changes, finishing with an incredible string part by Grian [Chatten, singer].”
In other Fontaines D.C.-related news, they will be performing with Kneecap at a huge show in Belfast this summer, with tickets selling out within half an hour, despite calls from the DUP to have it axed.
The news of the show was announced last month when Fontaines D.C. confirmed that they would be heading to the Boucher Road Playing Fields on August 29 for a headline show, joined by fellow Irish band Kneecap.
The gig has caught the eye of the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party], who are pushing for the performance to be banned. Speaking at Belfast City Hall, the group’s leader Sarah Bunting suggested that the council review the licence of the event following Kneecap’s controversial Coachella performances in April.
The Belfast show isn’t the only gig Kneecap and Fontaines are playing together. Elsewhere, the two are set to appear together at London’s Finsbury Park this summer and at a huge outdoor show together in Manchester, where Chatten and co. will headline a gig at Wythenshawe Park, and have already enlisted the hip-hop trio as special guests.