Following their recent signing to Partisan Records and the announcement of their support slot on both the forthcoming Shame tour in the UK and Ireland, and next year’s Idles tour in the US, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have now shared a video for their new single ‘Too Real’. The single was premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music who called it “poetic and powerful”. Speaking about the visuals in the new accompanying video, director Hugh Mulhern, says it is made up of “low-brow visuals inspired by Buster Keaton, James Joyce, The Dubliners and Jim Henson to discuss high- brow ramblings of some stout swilling stereotypes.”The band will be releasing the single on a double A-side single including ‘Too Real’ and ‘The Cuckoo Is A Callin’’. The single will be released on December 21.

Fontaines D.C. met as a quintet in Dublin, influenced and driven in equal measure by the rich history of their hometown’s counter-culture, their response has been to make concise and immediately authentic post-punk, channeling often-unassumingly poetic lyrics with a distinctive gritty Irish brogue that has done anything but fall on deaf ears.

This month the band will be embarking on a full UK/Ire tour with Shame, and in December will play a short series of headline dates, which have already begun to sell out. They have also announced further European and UK tour dates as well as main support on the Idles US tour and a SXSW appearance for 2019 .

Tour dates:

15 NOV 2018 / UK / Bristol / SWX*

16 NOV 2018 / UK / Portsmouth / Pyramids*

17 NOV 2018 / UK / Leicester / Academy 1*

18 NOV 2018 / UK / Sheffield / The Leadmill*

20 NOV 2018 / UK / Leeds / LUU - Stylus*

21 NOV 2018 / IE / Dublin / Tivoli Variety Theatre*

22 NOV 2018 / FR / Paris / Les Inrocks Festival @ La Gaîté Lyrique

23 NOV 2018 / UK / Newcastle / Newcastle University Union*

24 NOV 2018 / UK / Glasgow / SWG3*

26 NOV 2018 / UK / Norwich / The Waterfront*

27 NOV 2018 / UK / Oxford / Academy 1*

28 NOV 2018 / UK / Birmingham / O2 Institute*

29 NOV 2019 / UK / London / The Macbeth

30 NOV 2018 / UK / London / O2 Forum Kentish Town*

05 DEC 2018 / UK / London / The Lexington – SOLD OUT

06 DEC 2018 / UK / Brighton / The Prince Albert – SOLD OUT

07 DEC 2018 / UK / Manchester / Night People – SOLD OUT

09 DEC 2018 / UK / Cardiff / The Moon Club

14 DEC 2018 / IE / Listowel / Mike the Pies

15 DEC 2018 / IE / Galway / Roisin Dubh

21 DEC 2018 / IE / Dublin / The Button Factory – SOLD OUT

12 JAN 2019 / UK / Coventry / Coventry Central Library

13 JAN 2019 / UK / Milton Keynes / The Craufurd Arms

14 JAN 2019 / UK / Southampton / The Joiners

11 APR 2019 / UK / Bristol / Thekla

12 APR 2019 / UK / Leeds / Brudenell Social Club

13 APR 2019 / UK / Manchester / Gorilla

14 APR 2019 / UK / Glasgow / King Tuts

16 APR 2019 / UK / Nottingham / Bodega

17 APR 2019 / UK / London / The Garage

18 APR 2019 / UK / Brighton / The Haunt

* = supporting Shame

Following the single’s debut with Steve Lamacq on 6 Music, and ahead of a live performance for Annie Mac on Radio 1, Idles have shared another new song off their much-anticipated new LP, Joy as an Act of Resistance, out August 31 via Partisan. ‘Great’ is a pro-immigration black comedy (“Islam didn’t eat your hamster/change isn’t a crime”) as well as a scathing confrontation of the Brexit/Trump era. Singer Joe Talbot says of the track: “Let us go forward with open minds and open hearts into that fuck off fire we’ve started. No blame, no hate. Just love and a blue passport.”

Joy as an Act of Resistance bluntly addresses everything from toxic masculinity, immigration, racism, nationalism + more. The band are able to channel those weighty subjects though pure positivity and even biting humor.

‘Great’ is the fourth song to be released from Idles’s much-anticipated upcoming album Joy as an Act of Resistance. Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan & Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), The album takes aim at everything from nationalism and immigration to class inequality – all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”

Earlier this month Idles also announced an art exhibition to celebrate the release of their album. Open for two days, between 12pm and 8pm, and curated by the band, the exhibition will take place at: HM Electrics Gallery, 65 Nile St., London N1 7RD. The gallery will contain 18 pieces of work across several mediums. The gallery will be free entry and artwork on display available to buy, with all proceeds going to the Samaritans charity.

The band have also announced a run of live in-store dates around the album:

30 Aug UK London, Banquet Records, 9pm

31 Aug UK Bristol, Rough Trade, 3pm

31 Aug UK Bristol, Rough Trade, 7pm

03 Sep UK Portsmouth, Pie and Vinyl, 1pm

03 Sep UK Brighton, Resident, 6.30pm

04 Sep UK London, Rough Trade East, 7pm

05 Sep UK Sheffield, Record Junkee, 1pm

05 Sep UK Nottingham, Rough Trade, 7.30pm

06 Sep UK Leeds, Crash Records, 1pm

06 Sep UK Manchester, FOPP, 5.30pm

07 Sep UK Cardiff, Spiller Records, 7pm