University of Liverpool
The Dubliners burst brilliantly back on stage with literary-hearted rock that’s up there with the Smiths or the Pogues
The pandemic meant Fontaines DC never got to tour 2020’s bleak masterpiece A Hero’s Death, which – following 2019’s similarly acclaimed, Top 10, Mercury-nominated Dogrel – established the Dublin poetic post-punks as the kind of guitar band that comes along once in a generation.
However, finally, here they are, lashing out tracks from both albums before an audibly adoring public to the point that crowd hysteria transforms Liberty Belle from a dark song about “ready steady violence” into a joyous, liberated, gleeful celebration.